英语听力精选进阶版 14682

 

Chinua Achebe, Frank Thornton James Herbert, Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist and Barbara Firth

Fri, 22 Mar¹ 13

Radio 4's obituary² programme, telling the lives of significant figures who have died recently. This week Matthew Bannister marks the lives of Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, actor Frank Thornton, horror writer James Herbert, plotter against Hitler Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist and illustrator Barbara Firth.

1 mar   

vt.破坏，毁坏，弄糟

参考例句：

• It was not the custom for elderly people to mar the picnics with their presence.大人们照例不参加这样的野餐以免扫兴。
• Such a marriage might mar your career.这样的婚姻说不定会毁了你的一生。

2 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。