时间:2019-02-14 作者:英语课 分类:历史上的今天-2013年


英语课

 August 2nd, 1964The Pentagon reports the first of two attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo 1 boats on U.S. destroyers in the Gulf 2 of Tonkin. Days later, President Lyndon Johnson orders the first bombing raids on North Vietnamese military installations. “We still seek no wider war.” Congress swiftly approves broad powers to Johnson to escalate 3 America's military involvement in Vietnam. A National Security Agency analysis released in 2005 contends the second attack in the Tonkin Gulf never happened.


1990,In the Persian Gulf, Iraq invades neighboring Kuwait. The following year, an American led war known as “Operation Desert Storm” drives Saddam Hussein's forces out of the oil-rich emirate. A US-led invasion of Iraq in the following decade topples Saddam from power.
1943,During WWII, a Japanese destroyer sinks a U.S. Navy torpedo boat commanded by future President John F. Kennedy. Two on board the PT-109 are killed when the destroyer rams 4 and cuts then-Lieutenant Kennedy's boat in two, off the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. Kennedy and the vessel's other survivors 5 cling to the wreckage 6 and swim to a nearby island, where they are rescued.
1923,“America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums 7 but normalcy ...” President Warren G. Harding dies in San Francisco at age 57. Vice 8 President Calvin Coolidge succeeds him in the White House.
And 1876,Frontiersman “Wild Bill” Hickok is shot and killed while playing poker 9 at a saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, what's now South Dakota.
Today in History, August 2nd, Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.

n.水雷,地雷;v.用鱼雷破坏
  • His ship was blown up by a torpedo.他的船被一枚鱼雷炸毁了。
  • Torpedo boats played an important role during World War Two.鱼雷艇在第二次世界大战中发挥了重要作用。
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
v.(使)逐步增长(或发展),(使)逐步升级
  • It would tempt Israel's neighbors to escalate their demands.它将诱使以色列的邻国不断把他们的要求升级。
  • Defeat could cause one side or other to escalate the conflict.失败可能会导致其中一方将冲突升级。
n.公羊( ram的名词复数 );(R-)白羊(星)座;夯;攻城槌v.夯实(土等)( ram的第三人称单数 );猛撞;猛压;反复灌输
  • A couple of rams are butting at each other. 两只羊正在用角互相抵触。 来自辞典例句
  • More than anything the rams helped to break what should have been on interminable marriage. 那些牡羊比任何东西都更严重地加速了他们那本该天长地久的婚姻的破裂。 来自辞典例句
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
n.(失事飞机等的)残骸,破坏,毁坏
  • They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
  • New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。
n.骗人的疗法,有专利权的药品( nostrum的名词复数 );妙策
  • It is likely that these \"enlightened\" nostrums would have speeded up the catastrophe. 这些“开明的”药方本身就可能加快灾难的到来。 来自辞典例句
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
n.扑克;vt.烙制
  • He was cleared out in the poker game.他打扑克牌,把钱都输光了。
  • I'm old enough to play poker and do something with it.我打扑克是老手了,可以玩些花样。
学英语单词
aerides
aeronautical communication log
air line system
antiretentional diet
blue-fish
Brucefield
by all one's might and main
cell with self-baking continuous anodes
chapattis
chase
Cholistan
Collet-Sicard syndrome
come into existence
comfortables
Crichtons
cyclone type electrostatic spraying apparatus
damped exponential
dampening roller
Derazhne
development of the nozzle
digital china
Domistan
duplicate determination
equianharmonic tetrad
exception
extraction mechanism
factory calibration
fast rewind
fifth-anniversary
freely movable bearing
fructans
gas-cooled graphite-moderated reactor
germanischer lloyd
grinding pattern
heaser
Hwangsuwǒnho
hysteric personality
indium antimonide
innet
intermediate mass nucleus
it's more than my job's worth
keckite
key board encoder
Kotooka
lefse
lost their in
maamoun
malice prepence
Mc-Cormac's reflex
mohandas karamchand gandhis
Moire-holography method
mont blanc tunnel
motor vehicle accident
narrower-range investments
news vendor
onychosophrops holosetosa
Oulad Noumer
parasitic element
product-shipments data
pulverized silica
puy-de-dome
quantic
radar sidelight transponder
rang-height converter
ratio of ground cover
Reactive Turquoise Blue KN-G
red rice
refractory patching cement
resheaths
seating arrangements
secondary leakage flux
self leveling shoe
shading wedge
sheaf homomorphism
shifting lever boot
shoe-horns
sicklaemic
skin-rejuvenating
soakings
space correlation
spheric bulb
spinning electron
steel tie beam
string space
subsidiary production specialization
szatmar-nemeti(satu mare)
the afternoon specials
thebaol
treaty of cession
trev
ugly as a toad
uk -ready
unskated
unsnared
vapor inhalation
variable mass system
villareal
voracious appetite
water exchange
waveguide type resistant attenuator
White Sox
Zalambdalestidae