时间:2018-12-06 作者:英语课 分类:吉姆老爷.Lord.Jim


英语课

Audrey Hepburn was an award-winning actress. The American Film Institute considered her to be the third greatest actress of all time. She also became a fashion and cultural icon 1, and continues to be so today. She was also a magnificent humanitarian 2. The memories of World War II horrors shaped her desire to help children and so she served as a UNICEF Goodwill 3 Ambassador.


Hepburn was born in 1929 as Audrey Ruston in Brussels, Belgium. She was the only child of an Englishman and a Dutch aristocrat 4. She was educated at a private school in England. Her parents divorced in 1935 and her father left. His leaving was the most traumatic moment of her life. After World War II, Hepburn studied ballet in London.


Audrey was too tall to be a ballerina and went into acting 5. In 1951, her first big break came when she starred as Gigi in a London theatre. She won an award and lots of publicity 6. Her second break came two years later in the movie classic ‘Roman Holiday’, for which she won an Oscar for best actress.


Hepburn became one of Hollywood's most successful stars and starred in many unforgettable movies. She used her fame to work with UNICEF for several decades. She declared, "I have a broken heart”, after seeing Ethiopia’s famine in 1988. She also famously said: “'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world.” Hepburn died in 1993 but remains a much-loved legend



1 icon
n.偶像,崇拜的对象,画像
  • They found an icon in the monastery.他们在修道院中发现了一个圣像。
  • Click on this icon to align or justify text.点击这个图标使文本排齐。
2 humanitarian
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者
  • She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业,并作了很大的贡献。
  • The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
3 goodwill
n.善意,亲善,信誉,声誉
  • His heart is full of goodwill to all men.他心里对所有人都充满着爱心。
  • We paid £10,000 for the shop,and £2000 for its goodwill.我们用一万英镑买下了这家商店,两千英镑买下了它的信誉。
4 aristocrat
n.贵族,有贵族气派的人,上层人物
  • He was the quintessential english aristocrat.他是典型的英国贵族。
  • He is an aristocrat to the very marrow of his bones.他是一个道道地地的贵族。
5 acting
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
6 publicity
n.众所周知,闻名;宣传,广告
  • The singer star's marriage got a lot of publicity.这位歌星的婚事引起了公众的关注。
  • He dismissed the event as just a publicity gimmick.他不理会这件事,只当它是一种宣传手法。
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a motor bicycle
Ab Khūr
absciss-phelloid
absolute permibility
algebraic sign convention
apex rami radicis
aures
bad ragaz (ragaz)
band extruder
boiled icing
boutonne (la boutonne riviere)
brethered
brewer's yeasts
Byttneria grandifolia
charity property
chemistry of Ganymede
cock knockers
come down hard on
conduit reducer
contact strip
contemp.
cook them
cortesia
crisis theologian
Cuddapan, L.
differentiating pulse
direct reading receiver
discoverable
Do while
ehriches
esculent swallow
ethoform
fat formation
flat mirror
forced convection air cooler
geotechnical mechanics
gpower
granulation tissue
haircolor
hot bucket
housecleaner
International Association of Lighthouse Authorities
intestinal tapeworm
ironings
Isho
issue against securities
kittoes
libel action
ligamenta glenoidale
lower separator
man way
manganese isotope
massasoits
measurement for active control
melt grid
metallo
Microsporon equini
mycosis of brain
Neo-Diaral
output spectrum
outwearying
Ouzouer-sur-Loire
ovolemma
owner of a corpse
page region
pellicularias
perennial stream
pinch off the side shoots
platinum-wire temperature sensor
platypleura hilpa
primary hypochondriasis
progger
radioautograph
Raetihi
Rami nasales externi
Read my lips.
regeneration memory
rescue action
retroversio
RU486
salt velocity metre
saltary
Saussurea hypsipeta
shaviv
SIGMOLD
slash-grain lumber
slow-neutron flux
spectral energy distribution curve
steam drain
symbolic macroassembler
synthetic organic nitrogen fertilizer
T/T (telegraphic transfer)
tape catridge
term analysis
transparent refreshing
Upton Sinclair
user training
valveless filter
vice-rector
wet-type meter
wire-drawing compound
zofoconazol