时间:2019-01-19 作者:英语课 分类:历史上的今天-2010年


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 April 18th,1906A devastating 1 earthquake strikes San Francesco, flattening 2 buildings and setting off raging fires. Estimates of the final death toll 3 range between 3,000 and 6,000 in one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit an American city.


1775In Massachusetts, several post writers set out to warn colonists 4 of the British attack that starts the American Revolution. One patriotic 5 myth growing out of that movement, begins with a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem called “Paul Revere’s Ride”.
1983A suicide bomber 6 kills 63 people including 17 Americans at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon’s capital Beirut.
1955Physicist Albert Einstein, considered the greatest scientist of the 20th century, dies in Princeton, New Jersey 7.
He was 76.
And 1999Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky plays his last NHL game at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Gretzky nicknamed the Great One for setting so many records, says it’s time to move on.
“It’s hard, this is a great game but it’s a hard game, and I’m ready.”
Today in History, April 18th, Ed Donahue, the Associated Press.

adj.毁灭性的,令人震惊的,强有力的
  • It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
  • Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
n.殖民地开拓者,移民,殖民地居民( colonist的名词复数 )
  • Colonists from Europe populated many parts of the Americas. 欧洲的殖民者移居到了美洲的许多地方。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Some of the early colonists were cruel to the native population. 有些早期移居殖民地的人对当地居民很残忍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.爱国的,有爱国心的
  • His speech was full of patriotic sentiments.他的演说充满了爱国之情。
  • The old man is a patriotic overseas Chinese.这位老人是一位爱国华侨。
n.轰炸机,投弹手,投掷炸弹者
  • He flew a bomber during the war.他在战时驾驶轰炸机。
  • Detectives hunting the London bombers will be keen to interview him.追查伦敦爆炸案凶犯的侦探们急于对他进行讯问。
n.运动衫
  • He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
  • They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致,都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。
学英语单词
adpaper
air-brushes
Ampelopsis hypoglauca
anal pads
annihilation gamma-ray
aritox
arterias
back-sweeten
balanced termination
blanket prohibition
Chang Ling
chemical tanker
chrysazine
chryselephantines
coccidiomycosis
credit cooperative
daily piecework report
diammine palladous bromide
differential pulley
duodenes
Emanatism
entertainability
essential part of mark
eurypholis major
Fahrenheit thermometer
film dispersion method
fluval
from whose bourn e no traveller returns
geosacred
Godwin, William
grandma hypothesis
ground ohmeter
gully head protecting works
heavyheartedness
houbu (japan)
hulkingly
hypothecative
in-line skating
inductance sensor
insentiences
involute gear teeth
keel staple
Kingdom of Bahrain
Kragerφ
L-isoleucinyladenylate
lateral thruster
light sizing
line a time printing
linowes
liquid level inspection cock
look sb up and down
lymph node of epiploic foramen
makes trial of
manie
marjanov
mataris
medullary necrosis of kidney
Melissa, Akra
micromotor dental set
minimal-access routine
morbidity statistics
nucleon moment
ogee dam
page region
paper-tape punch
perspirer
pheneridine
philtrum moustache
pre-column derivatization
propylene trimer
PRTF
pseudoskeleton
quadratic variational problems
quality factors of software
satellite ocean surveillance
see you later alligator
semiperipheries
semiterete
service clubs
sick as a horse
St.Vincent
Stickelberger element
stock value
straight-side hydraulic press
subbase plough
swear an a charge against someone
technical publications
tens of thousands of
thiazines
time-shared common bus
tooth profile error
troop fire
turn of tidal current
UNDC
uranium vein
vinyl polymers
volume absorption
warm-cored disturbance
White's
wimble
yield good economic returns
ziani