2019-11-26 英国王室正面临20年来最大形象危机

Price Adrew announced on Wednesday that he would step back from public life, seeking to contain a firestorm over his ties to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein that threatened to scorch the entire British royal family.

1. contain

· vt. to keep your feelings under control 控制

· to prevent something harmful from spreading or getting worse 防止（事态）恶化

She was unable to contain her excitement. 她无法控制内心的激动。

to contain an epidemic 防止流行病蔓延

2. scorch

vt. 烧焦 (to burn and slightly damage a surface by making it too hot)

The prince's extraordinary statement capped a tumultuous four days since his televised interview about Mr. Epstein, which brought a storm of negative coverage, prompted companies with ties to the prince's charities to distance themselves from him, and rekindled calls for him to testify to the F.B.I. about his tangled history with Mr. Epstein, who was accused of sex trafficking. 

1. cap

· vt. 对……限制（limit） n. 帽子

The spending was capped by the budget. 开支受到预算的限制。

· be capped by sth. 由……收尾 （to have something very good or very bad at the end of an event）

The fabulous weekend was capped by dinner in a luxurious hotel. 这个超棒的周末以在豪华宾馆的晚餐而结束。

2. tumultuous adj. 吵闹的，喧哗的 (full of activity, confusion, or violence)

the tumultutous years of the Civil War 

tumult n. 喧嚣，混乱 (a confused, noisy, and excited situation, often caused by a large crowd) 

3. prompt vt. 促使 (to make someone decide to do something) 

prompt sb. to do sth. 促使某人做某事

4. rekindle vt. 重新点燃，重新激起 (to make someone have a particular feeling, though etc. again) 

kindle vt. 点燃 (if you kindle a fire, or if it kindles, it starts to burn; to make someone feel interested, excited, hopeful etc.)

kindle sth. in sb. 点燃某人心中的……

the book has kindled a love of pertry in him. 

Instead, after the duke submitted to 50 minutes of polite but relentless grilling by the BBC journalist Emily Maitlis, his unsavory association with Mr. Epstein — fodder for tabloid newspapers and society mafazines — had mutated into a full-blown scandal, one that eclipsed the British general election on front pages. 

1. submit to sth. 屈服于 (give in to sth.)

2. relentless adj.无情的，残酷的，不间断的 (strict, cruel, or determined, without ever stopping)

3. grilling n.  盘问，责问 (when you ask someone a lot of questions about something) 

4. unsavory adj.难吃的；龌龊的，令人讨厌的  (unpleasant or morally unacceptable) 

5. fodder n.  素材,（动物的）饲料 (food for farm animals)