英语听力精选进阶版 14603

Cyril Stein, Alberto Granado, Rachel Cameron, Necmettin Erbakan and Anthony Brooke.

Fri, 11 Mar¹ 11

Duration:

29 mins 

Available:

8 days remaining 

Radio 4's obituary² programme, telling the lives of significant figures who have recently died. This week Matthew Bannister marks the lives of Cyril Stein, who built up Ladbrokes from one betting shop to a multi-billion pound business. Alberto Granado who travelled with Che Guevara on his famous motorcycle journey across South America. Rachel Cameron, doyen of ballet teachers, who passed on the ideas of Diaghilev. Necmettin Erbakan, Turkey's first Islamist prime minister. And the last white Rajah of Sarawak, Anthony Brooke.

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。