英语听力精选进阶版 14632

Dr Wylie Vale, Lady Runcie, Barry Reckord, Reginald Hill and Israel Baker¹

Fri, 20 Jan 12

Radio 4's obituary² programme, telling the lives of significant figures who have recently died. This week Matthew Bannister marks the lives of the endocrinologist Dr Wylie Vale who discovered the hormone³ that governs our response to stress. The unconventional wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lady Runcie. The crime novelist Reginald Hill, best known for creating Dalziel and Pascoe. The pioneering black playwright⁴ Barry Reckord. And the violinist Israel Baker who played the searing music for the shower scene in Psycho.

1 baker   

n.面包师

参考例句：

• The baker bakes his bread in the bakery.面包师在面包房内烤面包。
• The baker frosted the cake with a mixture of sugar and whites of eggs.面包师在蛋糕上撒了一层白糖和蛋清的混合料。

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 hormone   

n.荷尔蒙，激素，内分泌

参考例句：

• Hormone implants are used as growth boosters.激素植入物被用作生长辅助剂。
• This hormone interacts closely with other hormones in the body.这种荷尔蒙与体內其他荷尔蒙紧密地相互作用。

4 playwright   

n.剧作家，编写剧本的人

参考例句：

• Gwyn Thomas was a famous playwright.格温·托马斯是著名的剧作家。
• The playwright was slaughtered by the press.这位剧作家受到新闻界的无情批判。