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英语课
By Ray McDonald
Washington
13 December 2007

One of the founding fathers of rock and roll, Ike Turner, died Wednesday December 12 at his home near San Diego, California.  He was 76.  The cause of death was unknown.  While an architect of the modern rock sound, he was also notorious for his abusive relationship with his wife, Tina.  VOA's Ray McDonald has more.


Mention Ike's name, and most music fans will likely peg 2 him as the drug-addicted, abusive husband of superstar singer Tina Turner.


Laurence Fishburne earned a Best Actor Academy Award nomination 3 for his portrayal 4 of Ike in the hit 1994 film, What's Love Got To Do With It.  While Ike disputed those claims, they have overshadowed his real contributions to the birth and development of rock and roll.


Born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Ike Turner was eight years old when he began doing odd jobs at a local radio station.  He carried amplifiers for blues 5 guitarist Robert Nighthawk while learning boogie-woogie piano from his idol 6, Pinetop Perkins.
 
In the late 1940s, Ike formed his own group, The Kings of Rhythm.  In 1951, he recorded "Rocket 88," which some critics call the first true rock and roll record.


While working with the Kings of Rhythm in the St. Louis area, Ike Turner also became a session musician and talent scout 7 for Sun Records.  He helped such later stars as Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson and Otis Rush sign contracts.
 
In the late-1950s, Ike hired a young singer from Tennessee named Anna Mae Bullock. Changing her name to Tina, after the popular action heroine "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle," Ike featured her in his popular soul review. After enjoying a hit single in 1960 with "A Fool In Love," the pair wed 1 in Mexico, and embarked 8 upon a stormy 16-year union.


Throughout the 1960s and early-70s, Ike and Tina were one of the most exciting and influential 9 acts in rock.  They toured with the Rolling Stones, and in 1971 performed in Africa.
 
Shadowing their success, however, was Ike's treatment of Tina.  Acting 10 as the group's manager and musical director, he allegedly treated his wife in a ruthless manner. In her 1986 autobiography 11 I, Tina, she wrote that he regularly isolated 12 and abused her, often in the form of vicious beatings.
 
By the mid-1970s, Ike Turner was in the grip of a cocaine 13 habit.  In July, 1976, Tina fled Ike, reportedly carrying only 36 cents.  She declined to comment on his death.


In 1989, Ike went to prison on drug charges, and was still behind bars when he and Tina were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.  He reportedly maintained sobriety after leaving prison in 1993, and in 2001 published an autobiography, Takin' Back My Name.  In it, he admitted to physically 14 abusing Tina, but denied beating her. 


He also continued to perform with the Kings of Rhythm, and in 2007 won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album.




v.娶,嫁,与…结婚
  • The couple eventually wed after three year engagement.这对夫妇在订婚三年后终于结婚了。
  • The prince was very determined to wed one of the king's daughters.王子下定决心要娶国王的其中一位女儿。
n.木栓,木钉;vt.用木钉钉,用短桩固定
  • Hang your overcoat on the peg in the hall.把你的大衣挂在门厅的挂衣钩上。
  • He hit the peg mightily on the top with a mallet.他用木槌猛敲木栓顶。
n.提名,任命,提名权
  • John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
  • Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。
n.饰演;描画
  • His novel is a vivid portrayal of life in a mining community.他的小说生动地描绘了矿区的生活。
  • The portrayal of the characters in the novel is lifelike.该书中的人物写得有血有肉。
n.抑郁,沮丧;布鲁斯音乐
  • She was in the back of a smoky bar singing the blues.她在烟雾弥漫的酒吧深处唱着布鲁斯歌曲。
  • He was in the blues on account of his failure in business.他因事业失败而意志消沉。
n.偶像,红人,宠儿
  • As an only child he was the idol of his parents.作为独子,他是父母的宠儿。
  • Blind worship of this idol must be ended.对这个偶像的盲目崇拜应该结束了。
n.童子军,侦察员;v.侦察,搜索
  • He was mistaken for an enemy scout and badly wounded.他被误认为是敌人的侦察兵,受了重伤。
  • The scout made a stealthy approach to the enemy position.侦察兵偷偷地靠近敌军阵地。
乘船( embark的过去式和过去分词 ); 装载; 从事
  • We stood on the pier and watched as they embarked. 我们站在突码头上目送他们登船。
  • She embarked on a discourse about the town's origins. 她开始讲本市的起源。
adj.有影响的,有权势的
  • He always tries to get in with the most influential people.他总是试图巴结最有影响的人物。
  • He is a very influential man in the government.他在政府中是个很有影响的人物。
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
n.自传
  • He published his autobiography last autumn.他去年秋天出版了自己的自传。
  • His life story is recounted in two fascinating volumes of autobiography.这两卷引人入胜的自传小说详述了他的生平。
adj.与世隔绝的
  • His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
  • Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。
n.可卡因,古柯碱(用作局部麻醉剂)
  • That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。
  • Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。
adj.物质上,体格上,身体上,按自然规律
  • He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服,心绪也很乱。
  • Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。
学英语单词
a pity
adaptable
adoptive immunochemotherapy
advantage oneself of
aerobacteriological
allochromatic
amortization of other deferred expenses
andisols
anti - roll bar
apoplexy involving the hollow organs
arc-spark direct reading spectrometer
automatic-tracking radar
balearic islandss
barandcake
Barre's pyramidal sign
biodefenses
blind speed
borehole seismometer
bringdown
caudal olivary nucleus
chrome-bearing alloy
cinnamlyl aldehyde
cliff ladder
command guidance system
commercial irregularities
consolatione
cotton blue
cry over
Ctenostomatide
determinate machine
dialoguers
dimethylol urea
distributing trough
Dominican dollar
donage
EARI
endotoxemic
estimation of reading
extensive knowledge
f. tr
filter bag
fugl
functional systolic murmur
genus Potamophis
grind someone down
growth motivation
heartlink
honors student
hydrostatic entry leg
in-phase and quadrature components
intact leaves
intertextualizations
Jatropha urens
Lipoche
lupuluss
make things warm for sb.
marginal mine
mass-producings
mesoeephalon
mode top
neo-liberals
o?litic limestion
old sweat
ommatius simils
overliming
paraziriquone
pentecote
photocontrol
Pius VIII
plains pocket mice
polysography
poppywort
posetion
procambarus clarkii
protended
rachiocampsis
reemerge
Rosa banksiae var. normalis
Serpukhov
space- charge grid
spasmodex
St. Cyr-l'Ecole
starting burner
steam accumulators
stenosemus golikovi
syphilitic rhinitis
thiamin hydrochloride
tighthead
time-signal set
titanosiloxane
transverse cross section
tsangshanensis
ulcer of lower limb
ultrasonic flow detector
uncompelled
uncompromising
unimprovably
varnish shop
Venray
waco
wastebasket taxa
wire feeding device