英语听力精选进阶版 14716

 

John Cole, John Cloudsley-Thompson, Georgina Livingston, Roy Grantham and Sultan Jamalul Kiram III

Fri, 8 Nov 13

Radio 4's obituary¹ programme, telling the lives of significant figures who have died recently. This week Matthew marks the lives of former BBC political editor John Cole, desert expert Professor John Cloudsley-Thompson, landscape architect Georgina Livingston, union leader Roy Grantham and Sultan Jamalul Kiram III of Sulu.

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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。