历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-01-31
时间：2019-01-19 作者：英语课 分类：历史上的今天-2011年
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January 31, 1958,America enters the Space Age successfully launching its first satellite into orbit“Explorer 1“.It happens just months after the Soviet 1 Union launches Sputnik-the very first satellite into orbit.
2001 A Libyan intellingence officer is convicted of murder and gets life in prison for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in Lockerbie ,Scotland.That's the verdict from a Scottish court convened 2 in the Netherlands. The court acquits 3 a second Libyan in the 1988 bombing which killed 270 people.
1945, Private Eddie Slovik becomes the first U.S. soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion.Slovik is shot by an American firing squad 4 in France during the final months of World War II in Europe.
1923 Norman Mailer, one of the great American authors in the years after World War II is born in Long Branch, New Jersey 5 .
And 1797 Composer Franz Peter Schubert is born in Vienna, Austria.
Today in History, January 31st, Mike Gracia the Associated Press.
adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃
- Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
- Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。
召开( convene的过去式 )； 召集； （为正式会议而）聚集； 集合
- The chairman convened the committee to put the issue to a vote. 主席召集委员们开会对这个问题进行表决。
- The governor convened his troops to put down the revolt. 总督召集他的部队去镇压叛乱。
宣判…无罪( acquit的第三人称单数 )； 使（自己）作出某种表现
- Well, let's wait and, see how he acquits himself today! 且看他今天办的怎样！ 来自子夜部分
- Athena, as president, gives her vote for Orestes and acquits him. 这时，阿西娜以审判长的资格，给奥列斯特投了一票，宣告他无罪。
n.班，小队，小团体；vt.把…编成班或小组
- The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
- A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。