历史上的今天-Today in History 2015-05-05
时间：2019-01-19 作者：英语课 分类：历史上的今天-2015年
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May 5th 1961Alan Shepard becomes America's first space traveler blasting off from Cape 1 Canaveral, Florida. "three, two, one, zero, ignition." Shepard makes a 15-miunte suborbital flight on board his Mercury capsule dubbed 2 Freedom 7.
1821France's former ruler Napoleon Bonaparte whose armies once swept across Europe dies in exile on the south Atlantic island of St. Helena.
1818Karl Marx, the philosopher whose ideas bore fruit in communist regimes worldwide during the 20th century is born in what’s now Germany.
1981Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands dies at Northern Ireland's Maze 3 Prison during the 66th day of his hunger strike.
And 1891Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducts at the opening concert at Carnegie Hall then known as Music Hall in New York City.
Today in History, May 5th, Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.
n.海角，岬；披肩，短披风
- I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
- She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。
v.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 )；把…称为；配音；复制
- Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
- Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的？ 来自《简明英汉词典》