英伦广角 2011-06-12 威廉王子夫妇蜜月归来

 The couple among many celebrities² of a lavish³ fund-raising dinner at Kensington Palace, tickets cost 10,000 pounds a head for the charity gala. Prince William spoke⁴ about what the cause meant to him.

 

"This new joint⁵ initiative is based on our shared vision and commitment to transform the lives of thousands of young people. I know that I am very fortunate. I've had a good education, a secure home and a loving and supportive family. So many young people, however, do not have these advantages and, as a result, can lack the confidence and knowledge to realize their full potential."

 

Our royal correspondent Paul Harrison was at the event.

 

A big night out, their first big official public night out for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at the ARK 10th annual gala black-tie fund-raising dinner, and that's exactly what it's all about tonight. What you're seeing is Arpad Busson, who is one of the funders of ARK, that effectively has a similar goal as the Prince's foundation and that is to raise as much money for, in ARK's case, certainly young children around the world, not just here in the UK. And we're talking about potentially raising as much as 40 million pounds tonight alone, and that was the figure that they raised last year. Arpad Busson told us on the way and that he hoped that they'd be able to raise somewhere in the region of around five million more than that. That was the sense that you got from him, and he put that at the door of Duke and Duchess of Cambridge because they are here. It's a big coup¹ for ARK to have them here as their special guests. They are sitting on a table, a top table of around about 26 or so VIPs. Among them are some of the people who have very deep pockets who will certainly no doubt be bidding and helping⁶ raising money tonight.

1 coup   

n.政变；突然而成功的行动

参考例句：

• The monarch was ousted by a military coup.那君主被军事政变者废黜了。
• That government was overthrown in a military coup three years ago.那个政府在3年前的军事政变中被推翻。

2 celebrities   

n.（尤指娱乐界的）名人( celebrity的名词复数 )；名流；名声；名誉

参考例句：

• He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀请头等名流参加他的聚会。
• a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由众多二流人物参加的电视访谈节目

3 lavish   

adj.无节制的；浪费的；vt.慷慨地给予，挥霍

参考例句：

• He despised people who were lavish with their praises.他看不起那些阿谀奉承的人。
• The sets and costumes are lavish.布景和服装极尽奢华。

4 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

5 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

6 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。