时间:2019-01-01 作者:英语课 分类:各国名人英文介绍


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Oprah Winfrey is internationally famous for hosting the most popular talk show on American television. Millions of TV viewers tune 1 in worldwide every day to watch her. She has become a household name and is now one of the richest women in the world. She is also famous for raising millions of dollars for charities to help with child literacy.


Oprah was born in 1954 in Mississippi. She experienced child abuse as she grew up, which led her to campaign for children’s rights later in her life. She helped draft a bill that President Clinton passed into law. Her career in broadcasting started in 1971 and her big breakthrough came in 1976 with her own extremely popular TV chat show – 'People Are Talking'.


In 1985 movie producer Steven Spielberg offered her a role in 'The Color Purple'. She was nominated for an Oscar at the Academy Awards for her performance. She used her newfound international fame to launch the 'Oprah Winfrey Show'. This opened all kinds of doors for her she had never dreamed of. The world was her oyster 2.


Her chat show is broadcast to over 100 countries. 'Life' magazine called her the most influential 3 woman of her generation. She has raised nearly $100 million for charity. She is now a role model for millions of girls around the world. Her latest project is an academy for poor girls, which opened in South Africa in 2007.



n.调子;和谐,协调;v.调音,调节,调整
  • He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子,并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
  • The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。
n.牡蛎;沉默寡言的人
  • I enjoy eating oyster; it's really delicious.我喜欢吃牡蛎,它味道真美。
  • I find I fairly like eating when he finally persuades me to taste the oyster.当他最后说服我尝尝牡蛎时,我发现我相当喜欢吃。
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。
学英语单词
acetylaminobutylaldehyde
acrichine
armlessness
bathophobia
be of good cheer
benzylsulfamide
biomass pool
blast holes
BMLA
boiled lawn
bone-coal(bone-charcoal)
caers
car checking
career anchor
cerebrovascular occlusion
chloroaromatic
COIP
combination line and tone
combini
congestive skin
corpora pineale
criticisings
cross ampere-turns
decitropine
Derindere
despatch notes
directoryless
downstream radius of crest
drysuits
dust pot
duty assessment
emotion modeling
end-face seal
enumerated articles
eschynite
Esperantina
flat head anchor bolt
formal control
friers
fry's reagent
genus cyclolomas
genus silvias
gravitational acceleration
harbo(u)r desilting
hold back the truth
host grain
Huschke's canal
hypothesis in observation
Indian givers
infra-occlusion
initial model
inless
inter-office voucher
intermediate cracking
interstitial gnanules in sarcoplasm
Itachi
joy-sticks
keyword table
killing fields
kilo-watts
klimakotopedion
leucocoprinus luteus
lower hauling rope
mat-backed film
mena
movable fine-mesh model (mfm)
neptis nata lutatia
nine-stage
non-degrees
Oakes
overgarments
paralipses
patent infrigement proceedings
polyphase AC motor
pre-machine
preliminaries'
purpurinus
refdanskite (revdanskite)
roccas
scranning
self-limitations
setdement
sheerleg
slot factor
smokeless burner
TDO
teec
temperature-coefficient of electrical resistance
Tinos, Nisos
towing limitation
unembed
unexpected halt
unfair preference
unit record device
unpenetrability
unwin
upper pond level
visual net
volcanic hair
ware potatoes
weatherometer
zero count interrupt