U.S. legendary actor Tony Curtis dies

    LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- Legendary¹ Hollywood actor Tony Curtis died on Wednesday night. He was 85.
    The veteran star, who was best known for his role in "Some Like It Hot," died of cardiac arrest（心搏停止） at his Las Vegas home, the Los Angeles Times reported.
    As one of Hollywood's most durable（耐用品） actors, Curtis, who was born Bernard Schwartz and a son of Hungarian Jewish immigrants, made appearances in more than 100 films and was nominated for the best actor Academy Award for his role in "The Defiant² Ones," a 1958 convict escape film in which he acted opposite Sidney Poitier.
    Curtis was best remembered for his role in "Some Like It Hot," Billy Wilder's classic 1959 comedy in which he and Jack³ Lemmon played small-time jazz musicians who fled after witnessing Saint Valentine's Day massacre⁴ in Chicago and fell in love with a vocalist played by British broadcaster Channel 4 in 2002.
    Curtis also appeared at 60 feature and TV films, as well as numerous television sitcoms⁵, dramatic series or as a talk-show guest. He has a star on the famed Hollywood Walk of Fame.(本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑)

1 legendary   

adj.传奇（中）的，闻名遐迩的；n.传奇（文学）

参考例句：

• Legendary stories are passed down from parents to children.传奇故事是由父母传给孩子们的。
• Odysseus was a legendary Greek hero.奥狄修斯是传说中的希腊英雄。

2 defiant   

adj.无礼的，挑战的

参考例句：

• With a last defiant gesture,they sang a revolutionary song as they were led away to prison.他们被带走投入监狱时，仍以最后的反抗姿态唱起了一支革命歌曲。
• He assumed a defiant attitude toward his employer.他对雇主采取挑衅的态度。

3 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

4 massacre   

n.残杀，大屠杀；v.残杀，集体屠杀

参考例句：

• There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中，这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
• If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀，大屠杀就有可能再次发生！

5 sitcoms   

n.情景喜剧( sitcom的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This is the stuff most stadard TV sitcoms are made of. 这是大多数标注的电视幽默剧所采用的题材。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• In most countries, prime-time Monday night television is dominated by sitcoms. 在大多数国家，周一晚上的电视黄金时段都由连续剧所占据。 来自互联网