2014考研英语复习:“经济学人”短文翻译(13)
THE words “probate exception” do not titillate. And yet a saucy, decade-long legal battle over a fortune of nearly half a billion dollars hinges on this clause, which deals with the boundaries between state and federal courts in estate disputes. At issue is whether Vickie Lynn Marshall, a former Playboy pin-up and exotic dancer better known as Anna Nicole Smith, will get anything from the estate of her late husband, J. Howard Marshall, an oil tycoon with assets estimated at $1.6 billion.
5月1日,史密斯女士赢得了重大胜利。尽管她的继承权仍未明确,但美国最高法院一致裁决,她可以在联邦法院追诉。有人怀疑,法官们这是在逗闷玩儿,简直是破天荒头一次。 |