英语听力精选进阶版 14662

Eric Hobsbawm, Michael Hurll, Jerome Horwitz, Harry¹ Chambers², Eddie Bert

Fri, 5 Oct 12

Radio 4's obituary³ programme, telling the lives of significant figures who have died recently. This week Matthew Bannister marks the lives of historian Eric Hobsbawm, TV producer Michael Hurll, AZT developer Jerome Horwitz, poetry publisher Harry Chambers and jazz trombonist Eddie Bert.

1 harry   

vt.掠夺，蹂躏，使苦恼

参考例句：

• 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。

2 chambers   

n.房间( chamber的名词复数 )；（议会的）议院；卧室；会议厅

参考例句：

• The body will be removed into one of the cold storage chambers. 尸体将被移到一个冷冻间里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Mr Chambers's readable book concentrates on the middle passage: the time Ransome spent in Russia. Chambers先生的这本值得一看的书重点在中间：Ransome在俄国的那几年。 来自互联网

3 obituary   

n.讣告，死亡公告；adj.死亡的

参考例句：

• The obituary records the whole life of the deceased.讣文记述了这位死者的生平。
• Five days after the letter came,he found Andersen s obituary in the morning paper.收到那封信五天后，他在早报上发现了安德森的讣告。