时间:2019-02-05 作者:英语课 分类:地道美语播客


英语课

Caridad: Look at this! The president of McQuillan University is stepping down. He submitted his resignation this morning after an undergraduate student made allegations that they had an affair and that she’s pregnant with his baby.



Nate: That’s terrible. Maybe they were in love.



Caridad: In love? He’s married and has four kids, and when she first went public about the affair, he denied it and said that she had made up the whole story. Would someone in love try to cover up something like this?



Nate: Who knows? The president of a major university is a person with a lot to lose. I’m not making excuses for him, but maybe he lost his head.



Caridad: Of course he had a lot to lose. Anyone who is in the public eye like he is shouldn’t be playing with fire. He’s an embarrassment 1 to his family and to his university.



Nate: I still think there could be extenuating 2 circumstances. All you know you’ve learned from one newspaper article.



Caridad: That much is true, but I know one thing: Whatever happens to him, it serves him right!





Script by Dr. Lucy Tse



n.尴尬;使人为难的人(事物);障碍;窘迫
  • She could have died away with embarrassment.她窘迫得要死。
  • Coughing at a concert can be a real embarrassment.在音乐会上咳嗽真会使人难堪。
adj.使减轻的,情有可原的v.(用偏袒的辩解或借口)减轻( extenuate的现在分词 );低估,藐视
  • There were extenuating circumstances and the defendant did not receive a prison sentence. 因有可减轻罪行的情节被告未被判刑。
  • I do not plead any extenuating act. 我不求宽大,也不要求减刑。 来自演讲部分
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aetherolea
Agonomycetales
aisel
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Angelica setchuenensis
aycocks
bagni
Balibi
banhammered
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BHLHZIP
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court of great sessions
cycle of pollutants
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demaio
distance between side windows
do sb a disservice
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easy-to-hit
economically viable
fixed blade ring
free-blowing
furyl
gun-runnings
hexanicotol
high output
hog island
hyperfeminization
impress sb with
Japan Shipbuilding Association
jiggled
key way cutting machine
knock sb over
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langhe
latest style
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lead - acid battery
lining wear
locomotive reservation
logs up
low patella
Lyngdalsheidhi
macula occludens
making food for crops
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maximum recording thermometer
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Minuartia verna
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nuclear radiation flowmeter
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superficial temporal fascia
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