时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2006年


英语课

Britain's Prince William is a subject of an intense speculation 1 this morning. The tabloids 2 are buzzing about whether he is gonna pop the question to his long-time girlfriend. CBS News correspondent Richard Roth reports.

Richard Roth: There's a royal ritual within these photos from Mas Deapth published in the current issue of People Magazine. On their Caribbean vacation Prince William and his girlfriend Kate Middleton have been navigating 3 familiar waters, soaking up the sun, and setting off speculation back home where the questions being put--is this a prelude 4 to engagement, and the answer seems to be “don’t bet on it.

Victoria Mather: I would say that it was extraordinarily 5 unlikely that Prince William and Kate Middleton would get married. But I think what we are seeing is a very modern situation of a fine young man having an extremely nice girlfriend.

Richard Roth: The couple who met at university have dated steadily 6 now for several years. She is so silent about the relationship. The presses dub 7 Kate "Her Royal Shyness". William said he doesn't want to marry till he is older. Anyway he is busy with six months more training at Sandhurst before his commission for a stint 8 in the British army, while Brother Harry 9 has been on the adventure vacation with his girlfriend in South Africa. For both boys it may be a case of marriage more on the mind than in the cards.

Victoria Mather: When Prince William's mother married she was 19.And look what'd happened there? It's not a good omen 10, is it ?

Richard Roth: No, but it's Britain's about to be reminded in an anniversary of nostalgia 11 exactly 25 years ago this summer. It looked awfully 12 good at that time. Actually there is a wedding in Prince William and Kath Middleton’s future, but it's tomorrow and it's not theirs. His stepsister Commily's daughter's getting married. The guests may have plenty to talk about.

Richard Roth, CBS News, London.



1 speculation
n.思索,沉思;猜测;投机
  • Her mind is occupied with speculation.她的头脑忙于思考。
  • There is widespread speculation that he is going to resign.人们普遍推测他要辞职。
2 tabloids
n.小报,通俗小报(版面通常比大报小一半,文章短,图片多,经常报道名人佚事)( tabloid的名词复数 );药片
  • The story was on the front pages of all the tabloids. 所有小报都在头版报道了这件事。
  • The story made the front page in all the tabloids. 这件事成了所有小报的头版新闻。
3 navigating
v.给(船舶、飞机等)引航,导航( navigate的现在分词 );(从海上、空中等)横越;横渡;飞跃
  • These can also be very useful when navigating time-based documents, such as video and audio. 它对于和时间有关的文档非常有用,比如视频和音频文档。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
  • Vehicles slowed to a crawl on city roads, navigating slushy snow. 汽车在市区路上行驶缓慢,穿越泥泞的雪地。 来自互联网
4 prelude
n.序言,前兆,序曲
  • The prelude to the musical composition is very long.这首乐曲的序曲很长。
  • The German invasion of Poland was a prelude to World War II.德国入侵波兰是第二次世界大战的序幕。
5 extraordinarily
adv.格外地;极端地
  • She is an extraordinarily beautiful girl.她是个美丽非凡的姑娘。
  • The sea was extraordinarily calm that morning.那天清晨,大海出奇地宁静。
6 steadily
adv.稳定地;不变地;持续地
  • The scope of man's use of natural resources will steadily grow.人类利用自然资源的广度将日益扩大。
  • Our educational reform was steadily led onto the correct path.我们的教学改革慢慢上轨道了。
7 dub
vt.(以某种称号)授予,给...起绰号,复制
  • I intend to use simultaneous recording to dub this film.我打算采用同期录音的方法为这部影片配音。
  • It was dubbed into Spanish for Mexican audiences.它被译制成西班牙语以方便墨西哥观众观看。
8 stint
v.节省,限制,停止;n.舍不得化,节约,限制;连续不断的一段时间从事某件事
  • He lavished money on his children without stint.他在孩子们身上花钱毫不吝惜。
  • We hope that you will not stint your criticism.我们希望您不吝指教。
9 harry
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
10 omen
n.征兆,预兆;vt.预示
  • The superstitious regard it as a bad omen.迷信的人认为那是一种恶兆。
  • Could this at last be a good omen for peace?这是否终于可以视作和平的吉兆了?
11 nostalgia
n.怀乡病,留恋过去,怀旧
  • He might be influenced by nostalgia for his happy youth.也许是对年轻时幸福时光的怀恋影响了他。
  • I was filled with nostalgia by hearing my favourite old song.我听到这首喜爱的旧歌,心中充满了怀旧之情。
12 awfully
adv.可怕地,非常地,极端地
  • Agriculture was awfully neglected in the past.过去农业遭到严重忽视。
  • I've been feeling awfully bad about it.对这我一直感到很难受。
学英语单词
admissible vertex
afls
air of superiority
alembroth
alteration of ship's estimated time of arrival
baklava-like
bear the burnt of
California nutmeg
canakin
caprylidene
catalytic force
channeltron electron multiplier array
clifferentiated marketing
climate-changes
collapsible mast
contour ploughed corn field
cotranslations
data manipulation instruction
deemphasises
defining fixed point
degenerate process
densimetric Froude number
dieb.tert.
dimensioning of circle
disranges
ebleys
electric manufacturing
electronic noise jammer
ELS
fast fluidization
Flisa
fluoridization
genus Geastrum
goods in transit
greenhoods
greling
half winterness
heavy manufacturing
high performance airscrew
horizontal system of coordinate
horizontal thrust borer
hullermann
i-send
instruments
intracavity
irany
jelly rolls
kernel interprocess communication
kineurine
kisch
klecka
local file
Lumbricidae
Lythrum hyssopifolia
majour
market-clearing wage
meacci
Melenki
microprogrammed diagnostics
Mohria caffrorum
non-money
not to set sth.at a pin's fee
opal jasper
ormo
ototoxic deafness
pat-down
peak load regulating scheme
peditis
pissance
process of regulation
productive reef
pure water cooling unit
Pybuthrin
Rajidae
rye ergots
scopomannite
scrat
SEHAB
short damping electric meter
Shulan
signal bandwidth
slurry piping system
Snowdonia
sonic barrier
split infinitives
standby period
starvation cure
steplings
student experience
synandry
take up a quarrel
tangent key
tellurium(vi) fluoride
testocorticoid
TEXTEL
ultramicrotechnique
undercoater
universal asynchronous digital subscriber line
universal hardness tester
vena musculophrenicas
yield per unit area
zootoxicology