时间:2019-01-19 作者:英语课 分类:历史上的今天-2013年


英语课

 November 17th, 1973,an embattled President Richard Nixon defends himself during the Watergate scandal. He tells the Associated Press managing editors’ meeting in Orlando, Florida. “People have got to know, whether or not their president’s a crook 1. Well I am not a crook. I’ve earned everything I’ve got.


3. England flourishes on the world stage” But Nixon resigns the following year when the Watergate scandal forces him from office.
1558, Elizabeth I begins the four and a half decade reign 2 as Queen of England, ascending 3 the throne after her half-sister Queen Mary dies. Under what’s known as the Elizabethan Age, England flourishes on the world stage, from military might to exploration and trade to the works of William Shakespeare.
1869, in Egypt, the Suez Canal opens, a vital waterway connecting the Mediterranean 4 and Red Seas.
1800, the US Congress holds its first session in Washington D.C. in the partially 5 completed Capitol Building.
1917, sculptor 6 Auguste Rodin, whose best-known works include The Thinker and The Kiss, dies in France. He was 77 years old.
And 1942, “Whether I like it or not, I actually end the movies I’ve made, for better for worse; however, people understand them and who I am, that’s all I really can be.” Movie director Martin Scorsese is born in New York City. Among his films, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Good Fellas, Gangs of New York, and The Departed . Today in history. November 17th. Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.

v.使弯曲;n.小偷,骗子,贼;弯曲(处)
  • He demanded an apology from me for calling him a crook.我骂他骗子,他要我向他认错。
  • She was cradling a small parcel in the crook of her elbow.她用手臂挎着一个小包裹。
n.统治时期,统治,支配,盛行;v.占优势
  • The reign of Queen Elizabeth lapped over into the seventeenth century.伊丽莎白王朝延至17世纪。
  • The reign of Zhu Yuanzhang lasted about 31 years.朱元璋统治了大约三十一年。
adj.上升的,向上的
  • Now draw or trace ten dinosaurs in ascending order of size.现在按照体型由小到大的顺序画出或是临摹出10只恐龙。
adj.地中海的;地中海沿岸的
  • The houses are Mediterranean in character.这些房子都属地中海风格。
  • Gibraltar is the key to the Mediterranean.直布罗陀是地中海的要冲。
adv.部分地,从某些方面讲
  • The door was partially concealed by the drapes.门有一部分被门帘遮住了。
  • The police managed to restore calm and the curfew was partially lifted.警方设法恢复了平静,宵禁部分解除。
n.雕刻家,雕刻家
  • A sculptor forms her material.雕塑家把材料塑造成雕塑品。
  • The sculptor rounded the clay into a sphere.那位雕塑家把黏土做成了一个球状。
学英语单词
acetylsalicylic acid
adagio
aneurismal
application/method identifier
auditory response
auditosensory area
Barby(Elbe)
battures
bidirectional search with equal speed
book chase
Brown's test
bundesgerichtshofs
Buxton
carcooning
catastrophically
Cavernae corporum cavernosorum penis
centrifugal compressor
characteristic capacity of reservoir
Cirsium arvense
cloud shield
Coelogyne gongshanensis
congenital renal salt-losing syndrome
cross oer line
Curvatura sacralis
cybercentre
daiflon
dialing key
disadvantage by
Dukhobors
environment survey satellite
epigonal organ
equivalent isothermal temperature
eyams
Fakharzadeh
family lythraceaes
garlic-crusher
garnery
global matrix
horizontal sampler
horse-breedings
hybodont
i want to be loved
intermittent spring
isopolyoxometallate
Kenai Peninsula
leprosie
LGMD
linomats
lophodont tooth
machinists level
Mahan, Alfred Thayer
main bearing
mechanical tissues
metalloregulatory
metamorphose
microprogram memory
mill cleanliness
minores
monest
Noble, Mount
obversely
opening time
operarmor
optimum capital stock
placcntal barrier
pluck sth out of the air
plus gene
port selector
powertech
Priessnitz's bandage
production concept
profunda femoris
quinupramine
radiculogram
raphidophyte
recontesting
ribbon cables
ring filling
rotary sieve
rug joint
scsosnsvsesnsisesnscses-s
sequential pulse
Seriphidium transiliense
shaker knot screen
soothers
stare sb out of countenance
start temperature
statistical test model
statutory order
stolewise
stopping by
straight peenhammer
substitution impedance measuring set
sync channel
taches laiteuses
Tamar
telegraph recorder
triode heptode
turret hatch
unlocking lever nut
waterboard
Weinberger