英语听力精选进阶版 14717

 

Sir John Tavener, Manfred Rommel, Anca Petrescu, Eddie McGrady and Grace Jones

Fri, 15 Nov 13

Radio 4's obituary¹ programme, telling the lives of significant figures who have died recently. This week Matthew Bannister marks the lives of composer Sir John Taverner, SDLP MP Eddie McGrady, Romanian architect Anca Petrescu, German mayor Manfred Rommel and British supercentenarian Grace Jones.

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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。