时间:2019-01-19 作者:英语课 分类:历史上的今天-2014年


英语课

 April 17th,1961, Hundreds of Cuban exiles trained by the CIA invade Cuba's Bay of Pigs trying to topple Fidel Castro from power. But the invasion fails a political embarrassment 1 for President John F. Kennedy just months after taking office. "This was a struggle of Cuban patriots 2 against a Cuban dictator. While we could not be expected to hide our sympathies, we made it repeatedly clear that the armed forces of this country would not intervene in any way." 1970, the 3 astronauts of Apollo 13 splash down safely in the Pacific Ocean days after a ruptured 3 oxygen tank cripples their spacecraft. 1790, Benjamin Franklin, author, publisher, inventor and one of America’s most famous founding fathers dies in Philadelphia at age 84.


1837, JP Morgan, a financial giant and American capitalism 4 during the late 19th and early 20 of century is born in Hartfort, Connecticut.
And 1964, an automotive legend is born. Ford 5 rolls out its sporty new convertible---the Mustang at the New York World's Fair. It's an instant hit. Today In History, April 17th, David Melendy, the Associated Press

n.尴尬;使人为难的人(事物);障碍;窘迫
  • She could have died away with embarrassment.她窘迫得要死。
  • Coughing at a concert can be a real embarrassment.在音乐会上咳嗽真会使人难堪。
爱国者,爱国主义者( patriot的名词复数 )
  • Abraham Lincoln was a fine type of the American patriots. 亚伯拉罕·林肯是美国爱国者的优秀典型。
  • These patriots would fight to death before they surrendered. 这些爱国者宁愿战斗到死,也不愿投降。
v.(使)破裂( rupture的过去式和过去分词 );(使体内组织等)断裂;使(友好关系)破裂;使绝交
  • They reported that the pipeline had ruptured. 他们报告说管道已经破裂了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The wall through Berlin was finally ruptured, prefiguring the reunification of Germany. 柏林墙终于倒塌了,预示着德国的重新统一。 来自辞典例句
n.资本主义
  • The essence of his argument is that capitalism cannot succeed.他的论点的核心是资本主义不能成功。
  • Capitalism began to develop in Russia in the 19th century.十九世纪资本主义在俄国开始发展。
n.浅滩,水浅可涉处;v.涉水,涉过
  • They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上,所以我们只能涉水过河。
  • If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪,必须极度小心。
学英语单词
8-foot
abort branch
adult-sized
amend the terms of LC
american blights
ansu-
Antonivtsi
axial modification
ball tree
basic lead silicate white
beer-halls
bilabe
blade angle of attack
borrow without security
brewster law
buccal occlusion
CHPL
cloth paper
coccygeal plexus
COLD-K
come into bloom
command-set vector
community-based
composite price
contact bridging
contribution by participants
dicketry
differential galactic rotation
dimensional method
electron tunneling
electroslag melting
esophagosalivary symptom
Floyd production language
fore-arms
gaatw
genus Echinochloa
gudgeon pin hole cap
gynas
hayslip
head park
i.iii.
inheritable tenancy
internationally-renowned
isometric plan
Jesuits' bark
keep your nose to the grindstone
Kiernan
klimts
lacked
lag of valve
liberalish
Lilium longiflorum
liquid waste discharge pump
live studio
load limiting device
methyl chlorofluoride
microprogrammed compiler
minimum running current
mishaving
multiphase flow
munlyn
nematocarcinus undulatips
netherregions
Nonfill
nuclear weapon test
ocular Onchocerciasis
offering to liberty
orbit perturbation
orienting compass
period of return
peucednin
phratry
pyelotubular
Qadhafist
quadruple bolt cutter
regional information
reichsbrucke
rescissorian
rigorously
route recorder
ruffneck
sharp bilge
smog front
smulovitz
soft-pitch
soft-shell clams
solitary carpel
sow the sand
specific combining ability
strained tomatoes
strikings-out
Suihua
sulphoxides
the economy
The rough and tumble
third-party transaction
Tractites
transplace
troopers
turkey stews
waur
weapon-training