时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:最新15篇文章贯通英语四级词汇


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[00:09.40]UNIT4

[00:12.68]The Man and His Castle (Ⅱ)

[00:15.86]This influential 1 media giant

[00:19.47]was not without his faults.

[00:22.64]His prejudices were common knowledge.

[00:25.81]His career was blemished 2

[00:28.00] by his offensive remarks about Spaniards,

[00:30.63] Japanese, Filipinos, and Russians.

[00:33.69]He printed lies, forged documents,

[00:38.28]falsified stories of violence,

[00:41.57]wrote provocative 3 editorials, and

[00:45.07]published sensational 4 cartoons and

[00:47.37]photographs to support his opinions.

[00:50.76]William hated minorities.

[00:54.70]He took advantage of every opportunity

[00:57.10]to heighten racial tensions.

[00:59.84]His real motive 5 for his hatred 6

[01:02.14]of Mexicans may have been

[01:04.22]the loss of 800 000 acres

[01:06.62]of prime timberland to

[01:08.48]the Mexican outlaw 7, Pancho Villa 8.

[01:11.54] His papers described them

[01:14.50]as marijuanasmoking, jobstealing,

[01:17.56]lazy, wicked, and violent degenerates 9.

[01:22.38] Some suggest he saw

[01:24.57] the Mexicans as a threat to his empire.

[01:27.95]During this period, William met

[01:31.57]and fell in love with

[01:33.53]a young actress, Marion Davies.

[01:35.28] Millicent, his wife and

[01:38.90]the mother of his five sons,

[01:40.86]including a set of twins,

[01:43.27] refused to dissolve the marriage,

[01:46.01] which obliged William to

[01:47.65]“live in sin” with the woman

[01:50.16]whom the tour guides refer to as

[01:52.24] his “friend” or “companion”.



1 influential
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。
2 blemished
v.有损…的完美,玷污( blemish的过去式 )
  • His reputation was blemished by that article. 他的名声被那篇文章玷污了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The scandal has blemished her shining reputation. 这件丑闻损害了她辉煌的声誉。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 provocative
adj.挑衅的,煽动的,刺激的,挑逗的
  • She wore a very provocative dress.她穿了一件非常性感的裙子。
  • His provocative words only fueled the argument further.他的挑衅性讲话只能使争论进一步激化。
4 sensational
adj.使人感动的,非常好的,轰动的,耸人听闻的
  • Papers of this kind are full of sensational news reports.这类报纸满是耸人听闻的新闻报道。
  • Their performance was sensational.他们的演出妙极了。
5 motive
n.动机,目的;adv.发动的,运动的
  • The police could not find a motive for the murder.警察不能找到谋杀的动机。
  • He had some motive in telling this fable.他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。
6 hatred
n.憎恶,憎恨,仇恨
  • He looked at me with hatred in his eyes.他以憎恨的眼光望着我。
  • The old man was seized with burning hatred for the fascists.老人对法西斯主义者充满了仇恨。
7 outlaw
n.歹徒,亡命之徒;vt.宣布…为不合法
  • The outlaw hid out in the hills for several months.逃犯在山里隐藏了几个月。
  • The outlaw has been caught.歹徒已被抓住了。
8 villa
n.别墅,城郊小屋
  • We rented a villa in France for the summer holidays.我们在法国租了一幢别墅消夏。
  • We are quartered in a beautiful villa.我们住在一栋漂亮的别墅里。
9 degenerates
衰退,堕落,退化( degenerate的第三人称单数 )
  • Liberty often degenerates into lawlessness. 自由常常变质为无法无天。
  • Her health degenerates rapidly. 她的健康状况迅速恶化。
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advances on subscription
airboarding
allevardite
angularly independent mode
arterial limb perfusion
au revoir
beag
Benedict's reagent
bivis
celestin
chronoamperometrically
Cinnamomum petrophilum
closed syllable
columity
consociationalism
crusader
curricular
Deisenhausen
detray
diathermy-coagulation
dissuasiveness
drop - down box
dynamic flattening
eccentri sheave
elisabeth vigee-lebruns
explosion breccia cone
farmer's sausage
film clip
first-pass sorting
fish egg incubator
fishplate
geomagnetic disturbances
gosneys
Grocrene
herry furnace
hollywoodism
hote
hydrocotyle vulgaris
HyTime
imprisonment reaction
in token of
Jotunnheimr
Lappian
laughing all the way to the bank
lead sodium hyposulfate
longitudinal crevasse
M.Y.O.B.
majendies
marine meteorograph
mastodontons
May blobs
meat flavo(u)r
metamorphic fluid
microcontrolled seeder
Msutu
multiplexed communication control unit
non-mastery
nonanaphylaxis
opticostriate region
over head passing
penrose tile
phenolphthalein alkalinity
pifithrin
polywater
Powellist
pull sth back
quasilinearization
reaccents
regenerative cooled combustion chamber
register-select multiplexer
revenue crisis
robert penn warrens
rotundant
rubberdampunch
rws
salubriousness
sanguinely
Santa Croce, L.di
seamless crown machine
senior lawyer
shackle bar
shitbreaths
shoulder vein
side-winder
sillsite
Siricidae
smashed it!
sodium lauroamphoacetate
solvent for metallurgy
sputtered film disk
striving for superiority
stuffed cabbages
sub-directory
sueven
teaching objectives
technical measurement
threshold of stress intensity factor
tongueandgroove
trellises
undevastating
unsonsy
variable-displacement pump