历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-09-24
时间:2019-01-19 作者:英语课 分类:历史上的今天-2010年
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September 24th, 1976Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is sentenced to 7 years in prison for taking part in a bank robbery with her kidnappers 1. She serves nearly 2 years before President Jimmy Carter commutes 2 her sentence. In 2001, President Bill Clinton pardons Hearst.
1896F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of the Jazz Age novel, The Great Gatsby, is born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
196860 Minutes,the pioneering TV news magazine, premieres on CBS, hosted by Mike Wallace and Harry 3 Reasoner.
1957The Brooklyn Dodgers 4 play their last game in New York, shutting out the Pittsburgh Pirates at Ebbets Field. The following season the Dodgers move to Los Angeles while the New York Giants relocate to San Francisco.
1936“Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me.” Jim, Henson, the creator of the Muppets from Kermit the Frog to Sesame Street, is born in Greenville, Mississippi.
And 1991"That's enough of that. I am a cat in the hat."Theodor Seuss Geisel, the children’s writer and cartoonist, better known as Dr. Seuss, dies in La Jolla, California. He was 87.
Today in History, September 24th, Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.
n.拐子,绑匪( kidnapper的名词复数 )
- They were freed yesterday by their kidnappers unharmed. 他们昨天被绑架者释放了,没有受到伤害。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The kidnappers had threatened to behead all four unless their jailed comrades were released. 帮匪们曾经威胁说如果印度方面不释放他们的同伙,他们就要将这四名人质全部斩首。 来自《简明英汉词典》
上下班路程( commute的名词复数 )
- She commutes from Oxford to London every day. 她每天上下班往返于牛津与伦敦之间。
- Barbara lives in Oxford and commutes. 芭芭拉住在牛津,通勤往来。
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
- Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
- Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。