创新英语教程第二册UNIT19a

[00:05.20]While you read
[00:12.28]Rich and Famous or Rich and Dangerous?
[00:17.61]They say that in the end we're all the same.You can have money and fame,
[00:25.44]but in the end you still have to do the same kind of things as everyone else-
[00:31.97]sleep,eat, fall in and out of love.and,apparently.commit crimes!
[00:40.44]Yes,when you look at the world of celebrities,
[00:45.71]it's amazing how many have had trouble with the law.
[00:51.07]Here's just a few of the ones we could remember,but the Internet has lots more!
[00:58.23]O.J.Simpson
[01:01.88]O.J.was involved in perhaps the most famous celebrity¹ trial of them all.
[01:09.02]He was accused of killing² his ex-wife.Nicole Brown.
[01:14.76]and her lover.Ronald Goldman,
[01:18.92]and he was allegedly filmed driving away from the scene in a truck.
[01:24.87]At first,the evidence suggesting he was guilty
[01:30.44]seemed to many people to be very clear,
[01:34.88]but the trial,which was televised around the world,found him innocent.
[01:41.12]Lots of people think the jury got it wrong
[01:46.16]and that he was lucky to get away with it.
[01:50.00]He had to pay several million dollars in damages to the victims' relatives
[01:56.56]when they took him to court afterward³.
[02:00.32]However,as one American comedian⁴ said,
[02:05.39]Have you ever heard of a millionaire murdering someone with their own hands?
[02:11.74]These people employ someone just to answer the telephone!
[02:16.70]Johnny Depp
[02:20.36]He may look sweet and innocent,
[02:24.51]but Johnny Depp has been found guilty of vandalism more than once in his life.
[02:31.07]On one occasion,he smashed up a hotel room in New York.
[02:36.94]He was charged,but it didn't go to court
[02:41.99]because he agreed to pay $2000 to the hotel to repair the damage.
[02:48.33]Mike Tyson
[02:52.28]Mike Tyson continued to earn millions of dollars as a boxer
[02:58.44]even after he had been to prison for rape⁵.
[03:03.20]He took a nineteen-year-old contestant⁶ in the Miss America beauty contest
[03:09.54]to his hotel room and forced her to have sex with him.
[03:14.87]He was later found guilty and was sentenced to six years in prison,
[03:21.53]but he got out just three years later for good behaviour.
[03:27.10]He hasn't exactly shown much good behaviour since then,though!
[03:32.35]Jean-Claude van Damme
[03:36.50]After admitting he had been drink-driving,
[03:41.54]the so-called Muscles from Brussels was ordered to pay a $1200 fine.
[03:49.62]was banned from driving for ninety days.
[03:53.98]and was forced to go to an anti-drink-driving course.
[03:59.26]Let's hope the course was more effective than the acting⁷ lessons he took!
[04:05.11]David Beckham
[04:08.87]Another bad driver is David Beckham.
[04:13.41]He was convicted of driving at over ninety miles an hour
[04:18.77]when he was on his way to a training session for his former football club.Manchester United.
[04:25.43]His excuse was that he was being chased by a photographer.
[04:31.49]He was also banned from driving,
[04:35.54]but shortly afterwards the judge agreed to give him back his driving licence,
[04:41.47]because he said that,as a celebrity,
[04:45.94]it was safer for Beckham to travel in his own car than on public transport.
[04:52.00]Safer for David,perhaps,but not for everyone else on the road.

1 celebrity   

n.名人，名流；著名，名声，名望

参考例句：

• Tom found himself something of a celebrity. 汤姆意识到自己已小有名气了。
• He haunted famous men, hoping to get celebrity for himself. 他常和名人在一起, 希望借此使自己获得名气。

2 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

3 afterward   

adv.后来；以后

参考例句：

• Let's go to the theatre first and eat afterward. 让我们先去看戏，然后吃饭。
• Afterward,the boy became a very famous artist.后来，这男孩成为一个很有名的艺术家。

4 comedian   

n.喜剧演员；滑稽演员

参考例句：

• The comedian tickled the crowd with his jokes.喜剧演员的笑话把人们逗乐了。
• The comedian enjoyed great popularity during the 30's.那位喜剧演员在三十年代非常走红。

5 rape   

n.抢夺，掠夺，强奸；vt.掠夺，抢夺，强奸

参考例句：

• The rape of the countryside had a profound ravage on them.对乡村的掠夺给他们造成严重创伤。
• He was brought to court and charged with rape.他被带到法庭并被指控犯有强奸罪。

6 contestant   

n.竞争者，参加竞赛者

参考例句：

• The company will furnish each contestant with a free ticket.公司将为每个参赛者免费提供一张票。
• The personal appearance and interview of the contestant is another count.参加比赛者的个人仪表和谈话也是一项。

7 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• 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。