时间:2019-01-19 作者:英语课 分类:历史上的今天-2015年


英语课

 March 22nd, 1765, Britain enacts 1 the Stamp Act to raise money from its American colonies. But the colonies balk 2 the taxation 3 without representation and the Act was repealed 4 the next year. The conflict helps set the stage for American Revolution in the following decade.


1987, a barge 5 carrying 3200 tons of garbage leaves New York’s Long Island on a 6-month journey in search of a place to unload. Several states in three countries turned away this so-called garbage barge before spaces is found. That’s where the journey begins.
1997, Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest women’s world figure skating champion at age 14 years and 10 months. “I never expected it, especially this year. Going to… you know, to think about my skating and… It's a big shock, but I love it”
1963, the Beatles release their first album “Please, please, me” in Britain.
And 1948, “Don’t cry for me Argentina….”
Also in Britain, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is born in London. Among his musical: Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats and The Phantom 6 of the Opera.
Today In History, March 22nd, Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press

制定(法律),通过(法案)( enact的第三人称单数 )
  • The legislative branch enacts laws; the executive branch enforces them, and the judicial branch interprets them. 立法部门制订法律,行政部门执行法律,司法部门解释法律。
  • Hold phasic characteristic correctly, ability enacts the policy with an actual suit, measure. 正确地把握形势特点,才能制定出切合实际的政策、措施。
n.大方木料;v.妨碍;不愿前进或从事某事
  • We get strong indications that his agent would balk at that request.我们得到的强烈暗示是他的经纪人会回避那个要求。
  • He shored up the wall with a thick balk of wood.他用一根粗大的木头把墙撑住。
n.征税,税收,税金
  • He made a number of simplifications in the taxation system.他在税制上作了一些简化。
  • The increase of taxation is an important fiscal policy.增税是一项重要的财政政策。
撤销,废除( repeal的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The Labour Party repealed the Act. 工党废除了那项法令。
  • The legislature repealed the unpopular Rent Act. 立法机关废除了不得人心的租借法案。
n.平底载货船,驳船
  • The barge was loaded up with coal.那艘驳船装上了煤。
  • Carrying goods by train costs nearly three times more than carrying them by barge.通过铁路运货的成本比驳船运货成本高出近3倍。
n.幻影,虚位,幽灵;adj.错觉的,幻影的,幽灵的
  • I found myself staring at her as if she were a phantom.我发现自己瞪大眼睛看着她,好像她是一个幽灵。
  • He is only a phantom of a king.他只是有名无实的国王。
学英语单词
.ani
abandoned infant
ageable
aggregate national income
asclepias curassavicas
back-fired
bad policies
BD-CELLULOSE
be a piece of cake
bevis
blow run
booby prize
booty call
Bourbourg
brevipen
captain deck
caput articular
carrier vehicle
ceratobranchial segment
Chanco
chiu tzu y?eh
cocto-immunogen
cold pressed juice
commissive mood
coxarthritis
deucing
digital reflection hologram
digital telemeter receiver
directoral
draw a check
everlastingnesses
exercise price
fall witchgrass
fetch around
field slave
fine spray metal transfer
Firuzeh
flow control bypass valve
indirogar
internal damping losses
klystron oscillator
Knole
leaf of negundo chastetree
leaky Rayleigh wave
left module
liquid level control
liquid liabilities
Longhurst Plateau
Michaelis-Gutmann bodies
multitown
muscular receptor apparatus
N-cholylglycine
nappiness
neocolonialization
oil of winter-green
one person
one-way trade
Osterstedt
over-generalisations
pigment minerals
plain squirrel cage motor
prewired option
primary permeability
principal tangent
propagation of light
prussics
raceway for wiring
radio-transmitting set
rapid depreciation procedures
regular screw thread
root registry
root-hair region
rubberstamp
run-resistant
satellite-tosatellite tracking
saw tooth hob
Shahejie Formation
shahstah
shirron
short title catalog
sleake
Snoqualmie Falls
splenoblast
steriliser
stick something up your ass
sturtevant excavating and bagging machine
teleonymph
tetravalelent
thanedom
Thioton
Threskiornis aethiopica
tracking lidar
transition signal
traversing speed
type checking rule
unbalanced ring
unflamboyant
unreservedly
vertical-disk-type butterfly valve
vinylog effect
violent film
weld rate