历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-10-12
时间：2019-02-14 作者：英语课 分类：历史上的今天-2010年
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October 12th, 1492On this date under the old style calendar, explorer Christopher Columbus lands in the Americas. Columbus sailing under Spain's banner traveled across the Atlantic, trying to seek a route to Asia. His arrival in the Caribbean leads to Europe's colonization 1 of the western hemisphere.
2000In the Persian Gulf 2, suicide bombers 3 strike the USS Cole docked in Yemen's port of Aden. They ram 4 the Cole with their boat filled with explosives, killing 5 17 American sailors aboard the destroyer. Osama Bin 6 Laden's Al Qaeda network is blamed for the attack nearly a year before the 9/11 attacks.
1960Political theater during the Cold War at the United Nations in New York, Soviet 7 leader Nikita Khrushchev disrupts the UN General Assembly by pounding his desk with a shoe when a speaker criticizes his country.
2002Terrorist strikes Indonesian island of Bali. That's where a bomb blamed on Islamic militants 8 destroys a nightclub killing 202 people, many of them, foreign tourists.
1935Luciano Pavarotti, considered one of the greatest opera stars of modern times, is born in Modena, Italy.
And 1997Singer John Denver dies when his privately 9 built aircraft crashes in Monterey Bay, California. He was 53 years old.
Today in History, October 12th, Tim Maguire, the Associated Press.
殖民地的开拓，殖民，殖民地化； 移殖
- Colonization took place during the Habsburg dynasty. 开拓殖民地在哈布斯堡王朝就进行过。
- These countries took part in the colonization of Africa. 这些国家参与非洲殖民地的开发。
n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂
- The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
- There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 )；投弹手；安非他明胶囊；大麻叶香烟
- Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》
(random access memory)随机存取存储器
- 512k RAM is recommended and 640k RAM is preferred.推荐配置为512K内存，640K内存则更佳。
n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
n.箱柜；vt.放入箱内；[计算机] DOS文件名:二进制目标文件
- He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
- He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。
adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃
- Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
- Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。
激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
- The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
- Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。