时间:2019-02-14 作者:英语课 分类:历史上的今天-2010年


英语课

 December 11th, 1936Britain’s King Edward the VIII becomes the first and only monarch 1 to voluntarily give up his country’s throne . Edward abdicates 2 in order to marry an American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson and he takes the title of the Duke of Windsor.


“I have found it impossible to carry out the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.” Edward’s brother becomes King George VI. George’s daughter becomes Queen Elizabeth II more than 15 years later and remains 3 on the throne to this day.
1941World War II widens even further as Nazi 4 Germany and Fascist 5 Italy declare war on the United States. America in turn declares war on Japan’s Axis 6 partners just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
1946Birth of UNICEF, the UN agency devoted 7 to helping 8 the world’s children, especially in developing countries.
And 1980Magnum, P.I., starring Tom Selleck as a private eye in Hawaii premieres on TV on CBS.
Today in History, December 11th, Ed Donahue, the Associated Press.

n.帝王,君主,最高统治者
  • The monarch's role is purely ceremonial.君主纯粹是个礼仪职位。
  • I think myself happier now than the greatest monarch upon earth.我觉得这个时候比世界上什么帝王都快乐。
放弃(职责、权力等)( abdicate的第三人称单数 ); 退位,逊位
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
n.纳粹分子,adj.纳粹党的,纳粹的
  • They declare the Nazi regime overthrown and sue for peace.他们宣布纳粹政权已被推翻,并出面求和。
  • Nazi closes those war criminals inside their concentration camp.纳粹把那些战犯关在他们的集中营里。
adj.法西斯主义的;法西斯党的;n.法西斯主义者,法西斯分子
  • The strikers were roughed up by the fascist cops.罢工工人遭到法西斯警察的殴打。
  • They succeeded in overthrowing the fascist dictatorship.他们成功推翻了法西斯独裁统治。
n.轴,轴线,中心线;坐标轴,基准线
  • The earth's axis is the line between the North and South Poles.地轴是南北极之间的线。
  • The axis of a circle is its diameter.圆的轴线是其直径。
adj.忠诚的,忠实的,热心的,献身于...的
  • He devoted his life to the educational cause of the motherland.他为祖国的教育事业贡献了一生。
  • We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
学英语单词
1-Hexanethiol
a'right
abkhazias
acaulescence
acromelanism
alexandrov
alligator-wrestling
amyl hydrogen sulfate
antidune
array representation
aufklarung
availability time ratio
Backwater Reservoir
bandala
bassen
bis-norbiotin
Bruckberg
bursarship
caloritropism
cerebellums
chemical concentration
chill coil
chord of the diminished seventh
circulation frequency of the data classification
clamping ability
climbing ripple lamination
Composite.
cricketress
cumulative reliability
deciduously
deintegrated
deppei
differential pressure recorder controller
disentrust
domain suffix
double-stage air pump
dubbing room
eemed
endec
excess freight
fatty girl
gallosh
gastown
gastroduodenal plexus
gauge calipers
geography of river transport
Gossypium thurberi
gray copper ore
Harman alkaloid
heads of department (hod)
HEPEX
hesitation period
hit team
hold one's breath
horseshoers
innate behavior
intemperances
ion implantation doping
Japanese character typewriter
kenhill
lengthful
Lisozymen
location-specific
mainshaft thrust cap
maintenance directory
mean of velocity fluctuations
merchistons
naevi epithelimoatosi cystici
Non-taperness
nonacidic
nonprinting character
nonrigid airship
Nothopanax delavayi
numeric entry
pelleted forage
pendant superheater
phenaline
prisal
progressive derivative
Puccinellia pamirica
Puccinia heterospora
range key
rehanging
representation symbol
rubbish chute
safeguard circuit
savasia
seed core
Ship Reporting Systems
skin vision
sub.
substitute community
superload
Syntopherol
tapelines
TISAB
tommy-rot
tritordeum
usuary
variable chord wing
water thermometer
world meterological organization