天津电大责任教师：夏方毅.ppt

* * 天津电大责任教师：夏方毅 每单元的课文讲解： 重要词汇讲解：重要的动词、形容词和名词的朗读，中 英文释义，搭配法，例句，其它常用意 思，以及常用 的同根词。 长句，难句句型分解，文字翻译。 通过课文中的用词、句型结构等简要介绍时事英语的语 言特点等。 Unit 1 主要内容： P13： Text 1 P30-32: 5 news items (5则短篇新闻) P40：Text 2 P42：Text 3 Unit 1 The Media Session One P13 Text 1 约克公爵和公爵夫人将在下月末离婚,结束他们四年多来感情不合的局面,并且宣布解除皇家和公爵夫人萨拉·弗格森的连带关系。 1 The Duke and Duchess of York will divorce at the end of next month, ending more than four years of uncertainty about their future and heralding the cutting of ties between the royal family and the Duchess, Sarah Ferguson. The couple announced their decision to split through their solicitors, who issued a joint statement which stressed that the decision to divorce had been taken solely by the royal couple. ‘The decision is a personal one and theirs alone.’ 这对夫妇宣布，他们已经通过律师来办理他们的离婚事宜。他们发布了联合声明，表明离婚的决定由双方做出。“决定完全出自他们个人。” Good-bye Fergie Georgina Williams 再见，弗吉 The statement is counter to earlier indications that the couple were under pressure from the Queen to put an end to their marital uncertainty. The palace has denied suggestions that the Queen wrote to her son last month to persuade him to divorce Sarah. 此次声明与早期关于这对夫妻是在女王的压力下才结束婚姻的指责背道而驰。皇室否认有关女王上月给她儿子写信，劝他同萨拉离婚的说法。 还有一些未被证实的报道，说公爵夫人如果同意与皇室脱离关系，就会得到200万英镑。据说这个协定在他们三年前合法分居时就已经拟订了，主要是为了孩子的利益。 There have been unconfirmed reports that the Duchess will be paid ￡2 million under the settlement in return for agreeing to accept her severance from the monarchy. The arrangement was reportedly drawn up when the royal pair legally separated three years ago, primarily in the interests of their children. Their daughters, Beatrice, aged seven, and Eugenie, six, are fifth and sixth in line to the throne. They ‘will continue to live with the Duchess, and both parents will participate fully in their upbringing’. In practice, the girls are likely to see their father, Prince Andrew, only when he is on leave from naval duties. 他们的女儿