时间:2019-01-19 作者:英语课 分类:历史上的今天-2015年


英语课

 March 23rd, 1775. A famous call for American independence from Britain. Patrick Henry tells the Virginia Provincial 1 Convention “Give me liberty, or give me death.” The American Revolution begins just weeks later.


1933. Germany’s Parliament, the Reichstag effectively gives dictatorial 2 powers to Adolf Hitler. More than a dozen years later, Hitler’s rule ends in the weak of WWII and the holocaust 3. 1983. President Ronald Reagan proposes developing technology to intercept 4 nuclear missiles, a plan the critics dub 5 Star Wars.
“I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who give us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering 6 these nuclear weapons, impotent and obsolete 7.”
2001. Russia’s orbiting Mir Space Station ends its 15-year odyssey 8 with a fiery 9 plunge 10 into the South Pacific.
And 1998. “My heart will go on and on…”The disaster epic 11 Titantic wins 11 Oscars, tying the record for the most Academy Award wins. The other films that cheer that honor, “Ben-Hur” and “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”.
Today in History, March 23rd. Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press.

adj.省的,地方的;n.外省人,乡下人
  • City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
  • Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。
adj. 独裁的,专断的
  • Her father is very dictatorial.她父亲很专横。
  • For years the nation had been under the heel of a dictatorial regime.多年来这个国家一直在独裁政权的铁蹄下。
n.大破坏;大屠杀
  • The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。
  • Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.内贾德否认大屠杀,因为他像希特勒一样残忍。
vt.拦截,截住,截击
  • His letter was intercepted by the Secret Service.他的信被特工处截获了。
  • Gunmen intercepted him on his way to the airport.持枪歹徒在他去机场的路上截击了他。
vt.(以某种称号)授予,给...起绰号,复制
  • I intend to use simultaneous recording to dub this film.我打算采用同期录音的方法为这部影片配音。
  • It was dubbed into Spanish for Mexican audiences.它被译制成西班牙语以方便墨西哥观众观看。
n.表现,描写
  • She gave a splendid rendering of Beethoven's piano sonata.她精彩地演奏了贝多芬的钢琴奏鸣曲。
  • His narrative is a super rendering of dialect speech and idiom.他的叙述是方言和土语最成功的运用。
adj.已废弃的,过时的
  • These goods are obsolete and will not fetch much on the market.这些货品过时了,在市场上卖不了高价。
  • They tried to hammer obsolete ideas into the young people's heads.他们竭力把陈旧思想灌输给青年。
n.长途冒险旅行;一连串的冒险
  • The march to Travnik was the final stretch of a 16-hour odyssey.去特拉夫尼克的这段路是长达16小时艰险旅行的最后一程。
  • His odyssey of passion, friendship,love,and revenge was now finished.他的热情、友谊、爱情和复仇的漫长历程,到此结束了。
adj.燃烧着的,火红的;暴躁的;激烈的
  • She has fiery red hair.她有一头火红的头发。
  • His fiery speech agitated the crowd.他热情洋溢的讲话激动了群众。
v.跳入,(使)投入,(使)陷入;猛冲
  • Test pool's water temperature before you plunge in.在你跳入之前你应该测试水温。
  • That would plunge them in the broil of the two countries.那将会使他们陷入这两国的争斗之中。
n.史诗,叙事诗;adj.史诗般的,壮丽的
  • I gave up my epic and wrote this little tale instead.我放弃了写叙事诗,而写了这个小故事。
  • They held a banquet of epic proportions.他们举行了盛大的宴会。
学英语单词
a ray of
alienatory
Ammoket
anthomaniac
arteria circumflexa scapulaes
auti-fouling coat
bacul-
basic training
be buried under
cereal food
channel for orders
commaund
corporate gang
crocein scarlet 3b
current-cost accounting
d-va
data aggregate type
deep sea mining vessel
Deutsch-Wagram
discipline of tribunal
donts
downhole water flow regulator
dried whole egg
dye beck
edgar rice burroughss
ERGO-Shell
ethnocinemabography
everything to
fev
final subcircuit
finger baffle
finite population correction factor
flexile
freon chiller unit
Furmanov
genus acacias
grease squirt
heavy gas
high concentration hydrochloric acid treatment
high-voltage testing transformer
homoamino acid
housing gasket
hybrid released translation
Khairabad
knocking on wood.
Lenetran
luzzu
main breadth line
make it clear
matt-finisheds
metacromia
microbooster
microcassette recorder
minimarathons
Mphoengs
musayev
my memory
Nexus One
Nihālpur
oeq
phoenix club
planned distributing
postglacial epoch
prelatize
Privas
rachigrap
reduced system of residues
rethinkable
rsjc
salsolinol
sea-captured streams
second helpings
semi-elastic subgrade
semisimple module
short moderate swell
sialons
smokehouses
solar thermal power plant
sowerbyella pallida
spinalized
Spirochaeta eberthi
stercoraceous vomiting
steroid glycoside
storage list
struggle into
subcutaneous test
subeditor
Tadjena
tegel
terminal buttons
tetragnatha praedonia
Tokary
tom collinss
tools for machine tools
total bacteria count
trace of precipitation
UIML
uninserted
unpavilioned
upgird
visual pass
warehousing charge