时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


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Every November 22, people worldwide remember and ponder the assassination 1 in 1963 of President John F. Kennedy. He was sitting in the back seat of a convertible 2 (the top was down) when bullets fired from a rifle tore into him and a fellow passenger.


The assassination was caught on 8mm film by Abraham Zapruder. Digital enhancement of that famous film shows part of Kennedy’s skull 3 getting blown off. JFK was barely alive as the convertible sped to the nearest hospital; he died shortly after arriving there. The damage to his brain was so great that even today’s medical techniques couldn’t have saved JFK.


Conspiracy 4 theories have persisted since the time of the assassination: the Mafia did it, the Teamsters did it, the CIA/FBI/Secret Service did it, Congress did it, the Federal Reserve did it, LBJ (the vice 5 president) did it, the Communists did it, the Cubans who hated Castro did it, and the two guys behind the grassy 6 knoll 7 did it.


Conspiracy theorists do not believe that a lone 8 gunman did it. The lone gunman was Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald didn’t get to say much in his defense 9 except, “I’m a patsy,” implying that he knew who really did it. Two days after Oswald shot Kennedy, Jack 10 Ruby 11 put a fatal bullet into Oswald.


The Warren Commission conducted the federal government’s official investigation 12 of JFK’s assassination. Its 27-volume report said that Oswald, an ex-Marine, acted alone in shooting JFK from a sixth floor window of a book storage building. But to this day, and probably far into the future, many people dispute this “lone gunman” theory. They believe JFK’s death was a result of a conspiracy by one or more groups of people who felt threatened or deserted 13 by JFK. The fact that Oswald was murdered while accompanied by a dozen Dallas policemen only strengthens the suspicions of the conspiracy theorists. The Warren report, they say, is merely a government whitewash 14 of the “true” facts.


 



n.暗杀;暗杀事件
  • The assassination of the president brought matters to a head.总统遭暗杀使事态到了严重关头。
  • Lincoln's assassination in 1865 shocked the whole nation.1865年,林肯遇刺事件震惊全美国。
adj.可改变的,可交换,同意义的;n.有活动摺篷的汽车
  • The convertible sofa means that the apartment can sleep four.有了这张折叠沙发,公寓里可以睡下4个人。
  • That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了。
n.头骨;颅骨
  • The skull bones fuse between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.头骨在15至25岁之间长合。
  • He fell out of the window and cracked his skull.他从窗子摔了出去,跌裂了颅骨。
n.阴谋,密谋,共谋
  • The men were found guilty of conspiracy to murder.这些人被裁决犯有阴谋杀人罪。
  • He claimed that it was all a conspiracy against him.他声称这一切都是一场针对他的阴谋。
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。
adj.盖满草的;长满草的
  • They sat and had their lunch on a grassy hillside.他们坐在长满草的山坡上吃午饭。
  • Cattle move freely across the grassy plain.牛群自由自在地走过草原。
n.小山,小丘
  • Silver had terrible hard work getting up the knoll.对于希尔弗来说,爬上那小山丘真不是件容易事。
  • He crawled up a small knoll and surveyed the prospect.他慢腾腾地登上一个小丘,看了看周围的地形。
adj.孤寂的,单独的;唯一的
  • A lone sea gull flew across the sky.一只孤独的海鸥在空中飞过。
  • She could see a lone figure on the deserted beach.她在空旷的海滩上能看到一个孤独的身影。
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
n.红宝石,红宝石色
  • She is wearing a small ruby earring.她戴着一枚红宝石小耳环。
  • On the handle of his sword sat the biggest ruby in the world.他的剑柄上镶有一颗世上最大的红宝石。
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
adj.荒芜的,荒废的,无人的,被遗弃的
  • The deserted village was filled with a deathly silence.这个荒废的村庄死一般的寂静。
  • The enemy chieftain was opposed and deserted by his followers.敌人头目众叛亲离。
v.粉刷,掩饰;n.石灰水,粉刷,掩饰
  • They tried hard to whitewash themselves.他们力图粉饰自己。
  • What he said was a load of whitewash.他所说的是一大堆粉饰之词。
学英语单词
amplification matrix
antitechnicality clause
autonomous network of threshold elements
blackmailer
bluff-bowed ship
bregmata
broad band ultrasonic pulse
buzz-bombing
calophya nigridorsalis
Campbell gauge
Carol Shields
close covering group
closing dates
comparator
constant standard cost
cowra
cupric hexafluorosilicate
damping power
density of distribution
diffraction disc
discombobulators
don't give up
double cuff
electrooptic modulating cell
elytritis
embusying
energiatype
ethoxybenzene
exfoliation corrosion test for aluminium alloy
exostotic
eye purple
ferret satellite
ferrite-rod memory
Fir'awn, Jazîrat
flattening kiln
fox-likest
galumphs
genus psettichthyss
George Washington
going-private
Gosso
grout spray rubber hose
hard-to-follow
hive dross
hose break valve
hypogammaglobulinemias
ideal solid
independent chord
indika
isoanhydroicaritin
Jashpur Pats
Kaloko
Kerkyra
kinematic(al) variable of mechanism
lense mount
magnesium pellet
mantle piece
Mariekerke
Meltzer's
nochlin
non-status
overalls
Palmerston
Papworth Hospital
parcook
PSE1
quench gas
racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations acts
rain-producing system
recontested
recuperative
sample uncertainty
sea water corrosion
see what you can do
self-clamping fixture
self-peptides
single proprietor
slatted apron
solvable problems
sporadic X-ray source
stakement
sunpumping
synphysiology
tap hole launder
telephone test
the hots
thick walled half liner
Tilemsi
to encapsulate
total program package
track bike
unacclimatised
unadapted
urticaria graphica
video attenuator
waste lye
whirlybird
wideband coating
winck
wireless fidelity
Zaglas' ligament
zulaika