英媒：默多克后悔娶邓文迪早就想“休妻”.docxVIP

英媒：默多克后悔娶邓文迪 早就想“休妻”2015-08-20 07:43:30　来源:?沪江英语当1998年鲁伯特·默多克突然宣布与已婚31年的妻子安娜·默多克（Anna Murdoch）离婚时，几乎没有人（包括安娜在内）会想到或推断出，那时已67岁高龄的默多克会交上一个女朋友。When Rupert Murdoch in 1998 announced his abrupt separation from Anna Murdoch, his wife of 31 years, almost nobody at the time, including Anna, had any idea, or could reasonably speculate, that Murdoch, then an old 67, might have a girlfriend.当1998年鲁伯特·默多克突然宣布与已婚31年的妻子安娜·默多克（Anna Murdoch）离婚时，几乎没有人（包括安娜在内）会想到或推断出，那时已67岁高龄的默多克会交上一个女朋友。But he did. And his divorce and remarriage, and the effect it had on his children, social life and executives, would shape the next generation of his company – a romance for our time, as it were.但是他交到了。他的离婚、再婚，及其对他孩子、社交生活及高级主管的影响，都会塑造默多克公司的下一代——可以说成是我们这个时代的罗曼史。With the curt, and blistering, announcement of his decision to file for divorce from Wendi Murdoch, the young woman he met when she was 28 and working for Star TV, his company in Hong Kong, another upheaval begins.默多克草率快速地声明向邓文迪提出离婚申请，当时两人相遇时，邓文迪年仅28岁，在默多克的香港公司星空传媒工作。这一举动又激起千层浪。It was two summers ago that Wendi burst into the news and transformed her public self from harridan to heroine by, with lightening fast reflexes, blocking a pie attack on her frail-looking husband in the midst of a difficult testimony in Britain before a committee of parliament investigating the hacking scandal.两年前的夏天，邓文迪闯入人们的视野，将她的公共形象由老泼妇转变成女中豪杰。当时，她文弱的丈夫正在英国为窃听丑闻案进行艰难的作证，她以迅雷不及掩耳之势阻止了一次蛋糕派的攻击。Murdoch had told his oldest son, Lachlan, that hed concluded that marrying Wendi was a mistake – or so Lachlan, along with his siblings never a fan of his fathers remarriage, was telling people. And during the many months that I was interviewing Murdoch in 2008 for my book about him, we would sometimes meet on weekend mornings at his apartment where it quite appeared he had not slept the night – but, rather, had arrived minutes before me with clothes bundled in his briefcase.默多克曾告诉过他的长子拉克伦（Lachlan），他认为自己和邓文迪的婚姻是个“错误”——又或者是拉克伦是这样告诉人们的，他和其他兄弟姐妹一样从不喜欢父亲再婚。2008年，我在采访默多克的大多数时间里，那时我在写一