10篇文章帮你搞定4级词汇(4)The Man And This Castle (II)_大学英语单词

10篇文章帮你搞定4级词汇(4)The Man And This Castle (II)

　　This influential media giant was not without his fault. His prejudices were common knowledge. His career was blemished by his offensive remarks about Spaniards, Japanese, Filipinos, and Russians. He printed lies, forget documents, falsified stories of violence, wrote provocative editorial and published sensational cartoons and photographs to support his opinions.

　　William hated minorities. He took advantage of very opportunity to heighten racial tensions. His real motive for his hatred of Mexicans may have been the loss of 800 000 acres of prime timberland to the Mexican outlaw. Pancho Villa. His papers described them ad marijuana-smoking. Job-stealing, lazy, wicked, and violent degenerates. Some suggest be saw the Mexicans as a threat to his Empire.

　　During this period, William met and fell in love with a young actress, Marion Davies. Millicent, his wife and the mother of his five sons, including a set of twins, refused to dissolve the marriage, which obliged William to live in sin with the woman the tour guides refer to as his friend or companion.

　　With thousands of acres of land covered with grassland, trees, natural ponds, and man-made reservoirs available for use, William stocked the estate with herds of rare oxen and deer, and flocks of sheep and lambs. These animals flourished ad they were allowed to wander freely. Large, more dangerous beasts, including tigers, ostriches, buffalo, yaks, emus, kangaroos, llamas, zebras and giraffes were enclosed in the largest private zoo in the world.