历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-04-25
时间：2019-01-19 作者：英语课 分类：历史上的今天-2011年
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April 25th, 1874Radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi is born in Bologna, Italy. “In spite of the great distance bodily separating us, you hear my voice as clearly and distinctly as I think you should.”
1507,America gets its name, nearly fifteen years after Christopher Columbus' first voyage to the New World. A German cartographer first uses the term on a world map to refer to the huge land mass in the Western Hemisphere. The name is in honor of Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian navigator.
1945,During WWII, American and Soviet 1 troops in Europe meet on the Elbe River. It's a sign that the collapse 2 of Nazi 3 Germany and the end of the war in Europe are near.
1990,“Ah, first of NASA's great observatories 4 is now on station at 330 nautical 5 miles above the earth.” Space Shuttle Discovery deploys 6 the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit around the Earth.
And 1918,“A-tisket A-tasket A brown and yellow basket I send a letter.” Ella Fitzgerald, one of the great jazz singers of the 20th Century, is born in Newport News, Virginia.
Today in History, April 25th, Sandy Kozel, 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。
vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷
- The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
- The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
n.纳粹分子，adj.纳粹党的，纳粹的
- They declare the Nazi regime overthrown and sue for peace.他们宣布纳粹政权已被推翻，并出面求和。
- Nazi closes those war criminals inside their concentration camp.纳粹把那些战犯关在他们的集中营里。
n.天文台，气象台( observatory的名词复数 )
- John Heilbron, The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories, 3-23. 约翰．海耳布隆，《教会里的太阳：教堂即太阳观测台》，第3-23页。 来自互联网
- Meteorologists use satellites, land observatories and historical data to provide information about the weather. 气象学家使用卫星、上天文台和历史资料来提供有关天气的信息。 来自互联网
adj.海上的，航海的，船员的
- A nautical mile is 1,852 meters.一海里等于1852米。
- It is 206 nautical miles from our present location.距离我们现在的位置有206海里。