英语听力精选进阶版 14604

Donny George, Owsley Stanley, Harold Massingham, Bob Greaves and Hugh Martin.

Fri, 18 Mar¹ 11

Duration:

28 mins 

Available:

15 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 Dr. Donny George, the archaeologist who tried to stop looters ransacking³ the Iraqi national museum after the invasion of 2003. Owsley Stanley who supplied more than one million tablets of LSD to San Francisco hippies and designed the Grateful Dead's sound system. Yorkshire poet Harold Massingham - Ian Macmillan pays tribute. Local TV news presenter⁴ Bob Greaves who was immortalised when an elephant got a little too intimate with him on screen. And Hugh Martin, composer of classic songs, including "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas".

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。

3 ransacking   

v.彻底搜查( ransack的现在分词 )；抢劫，掠夺

参考例句：

• She was ransacking the stores for Jim's present. 她正在彻底搜寻各家店铺，为吉姆买礼物。 来自英汉文学 - 欧亨利
• Ransacking the drawers of the dresser he came upon a discarded, tiny, ragged handkerchief. 他打开橱柜抽屉搜寻，找到了一块弃置的小旧手帕。 来自辞典例句

4 presenter   

n.（电视、广播的）主持人，赠与者

参考例句：

• Most people think being a television presenter is exciting.很多人认为当电视节目主持人是一件刺激的事情。
• The programme dispensed with its most popular presenter.这个节目最受欢迎的主持人被换掉了。