时间:2019-01-19 作者:英语课 分类:历史上的今天-2013年


英语课

 July 25th, 1956Disaster and rescue on the High Seas of the North Atlantic off the coast of New England. The Italian liner Andrew Adoria collides with the Swedish passenger ship "Stockholm", killing 1 at least 51 people. Most on board the Andrew Adoria survive. They are evacuated 2 before the liner sinks the following day.


2000An Air France Concorde bound for New York crashes outside Paris shortly after take off. All 109 people on board and 4 people on the ground are killed in the first ever crash of the supersonic jet. Just years later, the Concorde is grounded for good because of ballooning cost and dwindling 3 ticket sales after the crash.
1995A UN war crimes tribunal indicts 4 Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic. They are wanted for the slaughter 5 of up to 8,000 Bosnian and Muslim men and boys in the enclave of Srebrenica. Both men remain at large for Europe’s worst massacre 6 of civilians 7 since World War II.
1978Louise Joy Brown, the world's first "test tube baby", conceived through in-vitro fertilization is born in Oldham, England.
1997Ben Hogan, one of the greatest golfers of all time dies in Fort Worth, Texas. He was 84.
And 1975“One singular sensation, Every little step she takes…”
In New York, the musical A Chorus Line opens on Broadway.
Today in History ,July 25. Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press.

n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
撤退者的
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
adj.逐渐减少的v.逐渐变少或变小( dwindle的现在分词 )
  • The number of wild animals on the earth is dwindling. 地球上野生动物的数量正日渐减少。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He is struggling to come to terms with his dwindling authority. 他正努力适应自己权力被削弱这一局面。 来自辞典例句
控告,起诉( indict的第三人称单数 )
  • If the grand jury indicts the suspect, he will go to trial. 如果大陪审团指控嫌疑犯,他就得上法庭。
  • The grand jury indicts or refuses to indict accused persons. 大陪审团可起诉或拒绝起诉被告。
n.屠杀,屠宰;vt.屠杀,宰杀
  • I couldn't stand to watch them slaughter the cattle.我不忍看他们宰牛。
  • Wholesale slaughter was carried out in the name of progress.大规模的屠杀在维护进步的名义下进行。
n.残杀,大屠杀;v.残杀,集体屠杀
  • There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中,这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
  • If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀,大屠杀就有可能再次发生!
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
学英语单词
-teenth
angular motion
appointment-only
ash-greys
autocratic leader
automatic data processing systems
Ban Nong Yang
Bandwidth-on-demand
bare the metal
basilar membranae
bonnett
catalogable permanent file
cheek retractor
chloroethylaminoanthraquinones
classical-styles
closure of simplex
collective body
community residents
copius
coraebus aesopus
crummy
cystomyxoma
dispension
disproportionateness
distrbuted processing
electro-gas arc welding
excitaton source
exhibition expenditures
false myxoma
fear-stricken
fibre grease
firiming agent
fix things up
fluidized layer
forage for
fund levy
go on an outing
graphic kernel system
gravity spectrum
gravity tectonics
green cormorant
guilt-trip
heliocentric declination
heterodyne interference
high speed steel end mill
Igo
in one piece nozzle
income-expenditures
interpretation of dreams
island-dwellers
Knelston
laid lower
lead crown glass
Leo III
linen fiber
load up on sth
lyme-hound
make gains
manufacturer's rep
mechano-chemical system
medical diagnostic radiation
metallographs
Middleton Stoney
missel-bird
Mogogelo
noas
note to the accounts
number identification
off-colo(u)r product
oystered
pal(a)eohydrology
Palespotted
pasta rocket
pasteur pipet
permineralised
planetary landing
plant room
plumbaginaceous
pulsed lasers
re-taining part of the extra profit
reed sweep
Resia
ring-a-ring
screen scarifier
sewerage of separate system
site autonomy
taint-hook
take springs out from
testing of soil
tetrazoles
think no small bear of
Tolbukhinski Okrǔg
toona sureni(bl.)merr.
total color blindness
Tristars
wages fund
wooden bridge
written calculation
yeast-liked
zero-zero gel
zhishi xiebai guizhi decoction