时间:2019-01-19 作者:英语课 分类:历史上的今天-2012年


英语课

 June 17th, 1972One of America's greatest political scandals begins to unfold in Washington, D.C.. Five burglars are arrested inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex. Lawrence O'Brien at the time thechairman of the DNC later says this was no ordinary burglary . It became clear to us that we were indeed involved in something that could only be described as political espionage 1 . The Watergate scandal forces Richard Nixon tobecome the first president to resign more than two years later.


1775During the American Revolution, colonial forces and British troops fight the battle of Bunker Hill near Boston.
The battle which actually happens on Breed's Hill is a costly 2 victory for the British who suffer heavy losses.
1994O. J. Simpson is arrested after leading police on a low-speed chase in southern California. The ex-football player is charged with murder in the slaying 3 of his ex-wife Nicole and Ronald Goldman. Simpson is acquitted 4 at hiscriminal trial. But he is ordered to pay millions to the victims' families in his civil trial.
And 1986Singer Kate Smith, best known for her rendition of God Bless America, dies in Raleigh, North Carolina. She was79.
Today in history, June 17th. Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.

n.间谍行为,谍报活动
  • The authorities have arrested several people suspected of espionage.官方已经逮捕了几个涉嫌从事间谍活动的人。
  • Neither was there any hint of espionage in Hanley's early life.汉利的早期生活也毫无进行间谍活动的迹象。
adj.昂贵的,价值高的,豪华的
  • It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
  • This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用,左不过贵了些。
杀戮。
  • The man mimed the slaying of an enemy. 此人比手划脚地表演砍死一个敌人的情况。
  • He is suspected of having been an accomplice in the slaying,butthey can't pin it on him. 他有嫌疑曾参与该杀人案,但他们找不到证据来指控他。
宣判…无罪( acquit的过去式和过去分词 ); 使(自己)作出某种表现
  • The jury acquitted him of murder. 陪审团裁决他谋杀罪不成立。
  • Five months ago she was acquitted on a shoplifting charge. 五个月前她被宣判未犯入店行窃罪。
学英语单词
acoustical phaseconstant
air pollution episode
algebra class
algerian lace
anisotropic shielding
annular gap
anosigmoidoscopy
aphrophora intermedia
Australian ship reporting system
auxiliary and protective equipment
backward option
beachhead
Belgorodskiy Rayon
branch-and-bound search
brnoes
cacaotree
calcareous foraminifera
centre of a rope
coal mining machine
cock-and-hen club
collision mass stopping power
comicness
common disease
congenital ventricular septal defect
consular function
contacting profile
cutting charge
Cypripedium forrestii
defibrinogenase
diammonium hydrogen phosphate
domps
electro-neurogram
emphsema
eucyclodes albotermina
euterpnosia ampla
fleur-de-lis
flexible bellows
genus Campylorhynchus
glicke
greenalite rock
helminski
house-hold sector
hyperboliform
impermeable break
Inductive Kickback
john scopess
kilo-volt-ampere-hour
leaf-hairs
linearizable curve
Los Angeles type smog
mimetic form
mitraillades
municipalize
negative resistance tube
off stump
open valleys
overhead value analysis
overspurn
Palm Tree Cr.
pea-brained
period of responsibility
plant sigma
polar circles
predictive quantizing system
pride comes before a fall
probability sum rule
quality control cost
quality of finish
rareshot
rating of perceived exertion
recreational drugs
regulation of metabolism
reschedulers
reserve fuel
Salavan
scandium-45
scott mt.
scraper dredge(r)
security-conscious
seeing people
self adjusting system
semi-chrome leather
shielding method
Simon the Cyrenian
single row radial thrust ball bearing
sodian
straight off the ice
summation actinometer
swinging mirror
terminal-based conformity
the MPC
trapezonhedral tetartohedrism
ultrasonic microphone
unlexicalised
vineyet
vulture fund
walker casting machine
weisners
white crappies
x-autosome translocation
yggdrasill
zachary