NPR边听边练46:豪门恩怨主角病逝

 　　二、 泛听建议：

　　1、完整听一遍，掌握大意。

　　2、继续听，特别注意关键信息。遇到相似的词，写下来。

　　3、复述新闻。

　　Investigators¹ are trying to find out what caused a natural gas explosion in Springfield, Massachusetts yesterday. A strip club was destroyed and several buildings nearby were damaged, including one housing a daycare center. Eighteen people were injured, many of them, first responders, sent to the area after reports of a gas odor.昨天，马萨诸塞州斯普林菲尔德发生燃气爆炸，目前调查人员正试图找出爆炸原因。爆炸造成一家脱衣舞夜总会被毁，附近数幢大楼遭到破坏，其中包括房屋日托中心。爆炸共造成18人受伤，其中大多数为接到燃气泄露通知赶往现场救援的急救人员。

　　Actor Larry Hagman has died at a hospital in Dallas following complications from ___1___. NPR's Rebecca Abrahams reports Hagman was best known as the man Americans ___2___, the star of the TV series, Dallas.

　　演员拉里?哈格曼因喉癌并发症于达拉斯某医院病逝。据NPR新闻的丽贝卡?亚伯拉罕报道，哈格曼最为人所熟知的角色是电视剧《朱门恩怨》中让美国人又爱又恨的那个男人。

　　Fort Worth native Hagman caught the acting² bug³ from his mother Mary Martin, Broadway's ___3___ Peter Pan. In 1965, he ___4___ as a star himself in the hit show, I Dream of Jeannie. In 1978, he played the formidable Texas oil baron⁴ JR Ewing on Dallas. The character Hagman described, a so nasty, he ___5___, I can't remember half the people I slept with, stabbed in the back, or driven to suicide. The show was a pop culture phenomenon and in 1980 had everyone asking who shot JR.

　　哈格曼是沃斯堡人，母亲玛丽?马丁是百老汇原创歌舞剧《彼得潘》的主演，哈格曼则从母亲那里继承了表演天赋。1965年，哈格曼出演热门电视剧《太空仙女恋》。1978年，哈格曼在电视剧《朱门恩怨》中饰演德克萨州石油大亨JR尤。哈格曼扮演的这个人物非常卑劣，他嘲讽别人，我睡过的人中有一半我都不记得是谁了，他在背后伤人，或逼迫别人自杀。这部电视剧引领了大众文化，1980年时每个人都在问到底是谁枪杀了JR。

　　I came to Dallas to find out confidentially⁵ who shot JR.

　　我来到达拉斯就是要秘密找出是谁枪杀了JR。

　　Even President, Jimmy Carter.

　　甚至当时的总统吉米?卡特也是如此。

　　Hagman fought liver cancer for years and in 2011 announced that he had throat cancer. He was 81 years old.

　　哈格曼与癌症抗争了许多年，他于2011年宣布罹患喉癌。哈格曼享年81岁。

　　词汇讲解：

　　1、complication 并发症；并病Blindness is a common complication of diabetes⁶.

　　失明是糖尿病常有的一种并发症。

　　2、nasty 下流的；肮脏的；脾气不好的；险恶的; 令人不快的事物 ，性的吸引力

　　What nasty little snobs⁷ you all are.

　　你们是多么可恶的势利小人！

　　3. stab in the back 冷箭黑枪；背后下毒手；放冷箭；打冷枪

　　Forest operations, the enemy in the dark, you have that beware stab in the back!

　　森林作战，敌在暗，你在明，小心提防暗箭！

　　Easy to hide the gun, stab in the back hard against.

　　明枪易躲，暗箭难防。

　　4、phenomenon 现象；奇迹；杰出的人才[ 复数phenomena⁸或phenomenons ]

　　scientific explanations of natural phenomena.

　　…自然现象的科学解释。

　　参考答案：

　　1、throat cancer 2、loved to hate 3、original 4、emerged 5、quipped

1 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 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。

3 bug   

n.虫子；故障；窃听器；vt.纠缠；装窃听器

参考例句：

• There is a bug in the system.系统出了故障。
• The bird caught a bug on the fly.那鸟在飞行中捉住了一只昆虫。

4 baron   

n.男爵；(商业界等)巨头，大王

参考例句：

• Henry Ford was an automobile baron.亨利·福特是一位汽车业巨头。
• The baron lived in a strong castle.男爵住在一座坚固的城堡中。

5 confidentially   

ad.秘密地，悄悄地

参考例句：

• She was leaning confidentially across the table. 她神神秘秘地从桌子上靠过来。
• Kao Sung-nien and Wang Ch'u-hou talked confidentially in low tones. 高松年汪处厚两人低声密谈。

6 diabetes   

n.糖尿病

参考例句：

• In case of diabetes, physicians advise against the use of sugar.对于糖尿病患者，医生告诫他们不要吃糖。
• Diabetes is caused by a fault in the insulin production of the body.糖尿病是由体內胰岛素分泌失调引起的。

7 snobs   

（谄上傲下的）势利小人( snob的名词复数 )； 自高自大者，自命不凡者

参考例句：

• She dislikes snobs intensely. 她极其厌恶势利小人。
• Most of the people who worshipped her, who read every tidbit about her in the gossip press and hung up pictures of her in their rooms, were not social snobs. 崇敬她大多数的人不会放过每一篇报导她的八卦新闻，甚至在他们的房间中悬挂黛妃的画像，这些人并非都是傲慢成性。

8 phenomena   

n.现象

参考例句：

• Ade couldn't relate the phenomena with any theory he knew.艾德无法用他所知道的任何理论来解释这种现象。
• The object of these experiments was to find the connection,if any,between the two phenomena.这些实验的目的就是探索这两种现象之间的联系，如果存在着任何联系的话。