时间:2019-01-19 作者:英语课 分类:历史上的今天-2010年


英语课

 August 17th, 1969Hurricane Camille slams into the Gulf 1 Coast, making landfall just east of the mouth of the Mississippi River. The Category 5 storm kills more than 250 people, more than 35 years before Hurricane Katrina devastates 2 the region. 1998 “They did not constitute sexual relations, as I understood that term to be defined.”


In Washington, President Bill Clinton faces federal grand jury questioning in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. That’s where he finally admits his past relationship with the former White House intern 3. Afterward 4, Clinton tells the American people:
“Indeed I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse 5 in judgment 6 and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely 7 and completely responsible. ”
1896“There’re strange things done in the midnight sun, by the men who toil 8 for gold.”
Prospectors 9 find gold in Canada’s Yukon Territory, a discovery that touches off the Klondike Gold Rush in the following year. 1807 Robert Fulton’s steamboat begins its successful round trip up the Hudson River from New York City to Albany, New York. The voyage of the north river steamboat, popularly known as the Clermont, revolutionizes American transportation in the 19th century. 1987 Rudolf Hess, the last member of Adolf Hitler’s inner circle in Nazi 10 Germany dies of an apparent suicide at age 93. Hess was the sole inmate 11 at Spandau Prison in what was then West Berlin, serving a life sentence for war crimes.
And 1943“You’re talking to me? You’re talking to me? You’re talking to me? I’m the only one here.”
Actor Robert de Niro is born in New York City. Among his films, Taxi Driver, The Godfather Part II, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, and Analyze 12 This. Today in History, August 17th, Sophia Manos, the Associated Press. 

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.彻底破坏( devastate的第三人称单数 );摧毁;毁灭;在感情上(精神上、财务上等)压垮
  • Strip mining devastates whole regions, leaving bare and useless ground. 露天矿产毁坏全部区域,离开赤裸和无用的地面。 来自互联网
  • Prostitution is a profession that devastates the lives of young women. 雏妓这个职业是对女孩子极度的摧残。 来自互联网
v.拘禁,软禁;n.实习生
  • I worked as an intern in that firm last summer.去年夏天我在那家商行实习。
  • The intern bandaged the cut as the nurse looked on.这位实习生在护士的照看下给病人包扎伤口。
adv.后来;以后
  • Let's go to the theatre first and eat afterward. 让我们先去看戏,然后吃饭。
  • Afterward,the boy became a very famous artist.后来,这男孩成为一个很有名的艺术家。
n.过失,流逝,失效,抛弃信仰,间隔;vi.堕落,停止,失效,流逝;vt.使失效
  • The incident was being seen as a serious security lapse.这一事故被看作是一次严重的安全疏忽。
  • I had a lapse of memory.我记错了。
n.审判;判断力,识别力,看法,意见
  • The chairman flatters himself on his judgment of people.主席自认为他审视人比别人高明。
  • He's a man of excellent judgment.他眼力过人。
adv.仅仅,唯一地
  • Success should not be measured solely by educational achievement.成功与否不应只用学业成绩来衡量。
  • The town depends almost solely on the tourist trade.这座城市几乎完全靠旅游业维持。
vi.辛劳工作,艰难地行动;n.苦工,难事
  • The wealth comes from the toil of the masses.财富来自大众的辛勤劳动。
  • Every single grain is the result of toil.每一粒粮食都来之不易。
n.勘探者,探矿者( prospector的名词复数 )
  • The prospectors have discovered such minerals as calcite,quartz and asbestos here. 探矿人员在这里发现了方解石、石英、石棉等矿藏。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The prospectors have discovered many minerals here. 探矿人员在这里发现了许多矿藏。 来自辞典例句
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.被收容者;(房屋等的)居住人;住院人
  • I am an inmate of that hospital.我住在那家医院。
  • The prisoner is his inmate.那个囚犯和他同住一起。
vt.分析,解析 (=analyse)
  • We should analyze the cause and effect of this event.我们应该分析这场事变的因果。
  • The teacher tried to analyze the cause of our failure.老师设法分析我们失败的原因。
学英语单词
action pattern
advocacy tank
albulid
anamorphotic attachment
antistreptolysin o
ASIM,A.S.I.M.
Astrida
backup governor
bakerly
ballet british colombia
belt-type exhauster
bernoulli's relations
biotinylated
BTTT
butadiene-styrene copolymer
call analyzer
capacitive two-terminal element
Chaldees
chathetometer
client isolation
comma shaped cuttings
contempt of legislature
convertile
Deep South
dressin
dsDNA
e-i pick off
Eppelborn
ethnise
ethyl triphenyl silicane
exofacial
forensic hematology
fossa interpeduncular
Guebers
hablots
hauter
height of baffle plate
holotrichia sauteri sauteri
hypofluorescence
impregnate with
insinuated
insular convolution
invitation and submission of tender
kaoliang oil
leglessly
limacella glioderma
local grid
lodgment
long-time fatigue strength
Loudia Ouolof
Medskog
micropluviometer
mileposting
millifarad
mimotope
mispractice
nacoma
neutron-irradiated bromobenzene
nitinols
octin
opinion poll
ordaining
orman
Orussidae
overelaborateness
overoxidations
p. and h.
parking and maintenance room in the bulldozer garage
passenger van
Patiala
picrotoxin
pins and needle
playing hardball
quarter-band filter
rachen
rated power of solar array
reflexa
roboticization
rotor forging
salesclerks
seagates
security breaches
seize with both hands
sharp ear hook
shawon
slowcoach
stress-rupture
sun-trap
synical
tag card reader
taking-up lever bush
the tragic
thread groove
tilia mofungensis chun et wong
typhoid spine
ultrafashiinable
ur(in)ometer
vapor hood
wo'n't
work anchor
yeley