时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语专业晨读美文


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[00:01.34]Whatever Love Means

[00:03.01]Although neither of them remembered the occasion,

[00:07.16]Diana first met her future husband when she was just a baby.

[00:11.10]It happened during the winter of 1961, when twelve-year-old Charles,

[00:16.46]Prince of Wales, was visiting his mother's Sandringham retreat.

[00:20.18]At the time, your Prince Charles barely glanced at the tiny baby

[00:24.88]sleeping in her cot.

[00:26.41]After all, could a twelve-year-old boy be interested in babies?

[00:30.57]In fact, it would be sixteen years

[00:33.48]before Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer took place

[00:37.19]in the middle of a farmer's field during a shooting party

[00:40.36]in November 1977.

[00:42.33]It was a cold, rainy, bleak 1 afternoon when sixteen-year-old Diana,

[00:47.26]dressed in a borrowed parka that was too large for her,

[00:50.54]boots, and blue jeans, crossed the field to meet the heir to the British throne.

[00:55.46]It was almost twilight 2 when the two came face to face near Nobottle Woods.

[01:00.06]"What a sad man." Diana thought when she first saw him.

[01:04.54]The future Princess was intrigued 3 to

[01:06.95]finally meet the most eligible 4 bachelor in England,

[01:09.94]though she was not impressed with his five-foot-ten-inch height,

[01:13.74] thinking to herself that she would tower over him in high heels.

[01:17.02] But Diana would later say that she admired his beautiful blue eyes.

[01:21.51]The Prince later remarked that

[01:23.69] he thought Diana was "a very jolly and attractive" girl,

[01:26.97] "full of fun", though Diana herself believed that

[01:30.36] "he barely noticed me at all".

[01:32.33]Diana, it was discovered later,

[01:34.41] first came to the attention of the royal family

[01:37.04]when she acted as a bridesmaid for her sister Jane's wedding that April.

[01:40.97] It was the first major social occasion that Diana attended as a young woman.

[01:45.90] And many of the royals were surprised at

[01:48.08]how beautiful and mature the once-gawky girl had become.

[01:52.12]Even the Queen Mother, Prince Charles's grandmother,

[01:55.41] noticed Diana's beauty, grace, and charm.

[01:58.47]She complimented the Earl on the fine job he had done in bringing Diana up.

[02:03.06]When Charles went to Switzerland for a ski vacation,

[02:06.35]Diana missed him terribly. He called her after a day or two,

[02:10.39] and told Diana he had something important to ask her.

[02:13.89]He arrived home on February 3, 1981.

[02:17.72]Three days later, he arranged to see Diana at Windsor Castle. Late that evening,

[02:23.84] while Prince Charles was showing Diana the nursery, he asked her to marry him.

[02:29.31]To his surprise, Diana treated his proposal as a joke,

[02:33.47] she actually giggled 5. But soon she could see that Prince Charles was serious.

[02:38.83] Despite an insistent 6 voice inside her head

[02:41.99]that told her she would never be Queen, she accepted his proposal.

[02:46.26]Diana told Prince Charles over and over that she loved him.

[02:50.42]"Whatever love means." was his reply.



1 bleak
adj.(天气)阴冷的;凄凉的;暗淡的
  • They showed me into a bleak waiting room.他们引我来到一间阴冷的会客室。
  • The company's prospects look pretty bleak.这家公司的前景异常暗淡。
2 twilight
n.暮光,黄昏;暮年,晚期,衰落时期
  • Twilight merged into darkness.夕阳的光辉融于黑暗中。
  • Twilight was sweet with the smell of lilac and freshly turned earth.薄暮充满紫丁香和新翻耕的泥土的香味。
3 intrigued
adj.好奇的,被迷住了的v.搞阴谋诡计(intrigue的过去式);激起…的兴趣或好奇心;“intrigue”的过去式和过去分词
  • You've really intrigued me—tell me more! 你说的真有意思—再给我讲一些吧!
  • He was intrigued by her story. 他被她的故事迷住了。
4 eligible
adj.有条件被选中的;(尤指婚姻等)合适(意)的
  • He is an eligible young man.他是一个合格的年轻人。
  • Helen married an eligible bachelor.海伦嫁给了一个中意的单身汉。
5 giggled
v.咯咯地笑( giggle的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The girls giggled at the joke. 女孩子们让这笑话逗得咯咯笑。
  • The children giggled hysterically. 孩子们歇斯底里地傻笑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 insistent
adj.迫切的,坚持的
  • There was an insistent knock on my door.我听到一阵急促的敲门声。
  • He is most insistent on this point.他在这点上很坚持。
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accounting cost control
acid sebacate
acute embolism of superior mesenteric artery
after-match
agonous
Apostolic Constitutions
base sleeve
bed material armoring
bgq
bias belted tire
bulimarexia
cafritz
chemical padding
Cherchevski's
choice stock
chorionic gonadotrophin
combustible control system
computed entry table
conditioned excitation
constrained linear inversion
contrafissura
counter-hegemonic
crown wheel driver core
dehydroprogesterone
desistive
Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund
diareses
disulfoton
duck feather
englard
explanandum
federal farm mortage corporation
Fort Constantine
gibberishlike
golf pros
grasstops
have ... to do
helium pressure tank
Icerya purchasi Maskell
illicium parviflora punn.
im-ing
Incerta
induced moment
inter-firms
islandful
key generator
Klarälven (Trysilelva)
legal limit
leupp
long jumped
low-tower system
Marmited
mervy
Mission R.
mnt
mongolianisms
mortgage-banking
most and end
multi-locomotive traction
nephropyelitis
nonterritorial
Novodmitriyevskaya
Noxen
otostapes
paddling pools
page through
pedunculated acetabulum
piecemeal opinion
placental plasmodium
Plasmodium pitheci
predictive text
protein subunit
pulse-amplitude-modulated sample
puzzlefest
relaxed stress
roll-rate
rotating disk analyzer
scroller text buffer
section construction
shadbird
shake one's faith
sheep station
Sidra, Gulf of
slag sb off
sonuvabitches
spring growth
starting point guard
stock pig
take one's name off the books
technical sodium citrate
technobandit
thrift engagement
thrust chamber specific impulse
Toisvesi
towing
triple-folded hornreflector
umbrella arum
under developing
unplummed
watermint
whole method of learning
written indication