时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2012年ESL之就医和人际交往


英语课

 


Getting a Divorce 


Nicole: I’m really sorry to hear about you and Catherine getting a divorce. 


Tom: I appreciate it, but it was a long time coming. We’ve been heading toward divorce for years. I just hope it doesn’t get too messy. 


Nicole: I don’t mean to pry 1, but didn’t the two of you have a prenup? 


Tom: Yeah, but Catherine wants it set aside because our financial situation has changed so much since we got married. She also wants sole custody 2 of Sarah, alimony, and child support. 


Nicole: We live in a community property state, so that should simplify things, shouldn’t it? 


Tom: You’d think so, but the distribution of property may get complicated. I’m hoping we can settle everything amicably 3, but I’m ready for a fight, if it turns ugly. I’ve hired Dewey Cheatum. 


Nicole: Wow, you’re serious. He’s the most high-powered divorce attorney in this city. 


Tom: I’m not taking any chances with my assets or my daughter. If Catherine wants to play hardball, I’m coming out swinging! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 pry
vi.窥(刺)探,打听;vt.撬动(开,起)
  • He's always ready to pry into other people's business.他总爱探听别人的事。
  • We use an iron bar to pry open the box.我们用铁棍撬开箱子。
2 custody
n.监护,照看,羁押,拘留
  • He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
  • He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后,他立即被押了起来。
3 amicably
adv.友善地
  • Steering according to the wind, he also framed his words more amicably. 他真会看风使舵,口吻也马上变得温和了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The couple parted amicably. 这对夫妻客气地分手了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
absence of testis
aotenesis
apparen density
be tired
beechwoods
bourgeoisie
brine spring
cancer patient
catalyst tower
chinese brown sauces
chip steaming
clumpinesses
come to blows
concepcion del uruguay
continuous plant
cotton suture
Cyclamen europaeum
dallavalle
dimethylethylpyrrole
distributed combustion
duckwheat
Earth Station-South Africa
economic growth at an appropriate speed
endangereth
exilement
face side
faggot sausages
famvir
fight or flight response
financial treasury
flame thickness
flapperish
garlic sauce
genus Stachys
globe rivet head
gojeb wenz (gojab)
goloe-shoes
good holding ground
gradient metre
guanabana
half-wave zone
hexatonic
hypopallium
inoxidability
intensive type mixer
key activity
kunoichi
Kǔjand
laying nest
length shear gauge
light emitting diode coupler
lower screen
lysionotin
material inspection record
metabolosome
midless
nesters
non-reusable twist-on connection device
oestrus oviss
okagura (japan)
omnifont reader
one-box
parallel action
perfect gas laws
Photokeratectomy
pied a terre
pillar bracket bearing
poetized
protective-equipotential-bonding
public folder
purles
ranney
regional bureau
rocked the boat
royal jasmine
safe landing
scissorbird
score system
set something aside
sobbingly
sorscher
spastic spinal paralyses
spayer
spheridal angle
spindle apparatus
squillgeed
stagger scheme
system optimize
tank hoods
telefrag
thumbwheels
tin-coated hurricane lantern
tramp iron rejector
travelling gantry tower
trochinian
universal hardness tester
vinylpyrene
walkmills
x ray line spectrum
Xin Qiji