时间:2019-02-14 作者:英语课 分类:历史上的今天-2010年


英语课

 November 17th, 1973An embattled President Richard Nixon defends himself during the Watergate scandal. He tells the Associated Press managing editors’ meeting in Orlando, Florida. “People have got to know, whether or not their president is a crook 1. Well I am not a crook. I’ve earned everything I’ve got.” But Nixon resigns the following year when the Watergate scandal forces him from office.


1558Elizabeth I begins a four and a half decade reign 2 as Queen of England, ascending 3 the throne after her half-sister Queen Mary dies. Under what’s known as the Elizabethan Age, England flourishes on the world stage, from military might to exploration and trade to the works of William Shakespeare.
1869In Egypt, the Suez Canal opens, a vital waterway connecting the Mediterranean 4 and Red Seas.
1800The US Congress holds its first session in Washington D.C. in the partially 5 completed Capitol building.
1917Sculptor Auguste Rodin, whose best-known works include The Thinker and The Kiss, dies in France. He was 77 years old.
And 1942“Whether I like it or not, I actually end the movies I’ve made, for better for worse; however, people understand them that who I am, that’s all I really can be.”
Movie director Martin Scorsese is born in New York City. Among his films, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, and The Departed . Today in History, November 17th, Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.

v.使弯曲;n.小偷,骗子,贼;弯曲(处)
  • He demanded an apology from me for calling him a crook.我骂他骗子,他要我向他认错。
  • She was cradling a small parcel in the crook of her elbow.她用手臂挎着一个小包裹。
n.统治时期,统治,支配,盛行;v.占优势
  • The reign of Queen Elizabeth lapped over into the seventeenth century.伊丽莎白王朝延至17世纪。
  • The reign of Zhu Yuanzhang lasted about 31 years.朱元璋统治了大约三十一年。
adj.上升的,向上的
  • Now draw or trace ten dinosaurs in ascending order of size.现在按照体型由小到大的顺序画出或是临摹出10只恐龙。
adj.地中海的;地中海沿岸的
  • The houses are Mediterranean in character.这些房子都属地中海风格。
  • Gibraltar is the key to the Mediterranean.直布罗陀是地中海的要冲。
adv.部分地,从某些方面讲
  • The door was partially concealed by the drapes.门有一部分被门帘遮住了。
  • The police managed to restore calm and the curfew was partially lifted.警方设法恢复了平静,宵禁部分解除。
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actual sin
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Barber, Samuel
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bruichladdich
budget study
Cajnice
Cayley graph
cextract
collapse model of corporate image
commutative primitive
concrete bathing and mixing plant
contray
coping style
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dcASM
deciseconds
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deslime
dextrinizing
distillate hold-up tank
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edeagra
electronical integration assembly
eloping
eurotra
eutopium chelate laser
flexible polymer
free setting ratio
frictionary
g-cal,g-cal.
Gaius Cassius Longinus
giant oarfish
graphic symbol
Great Abaco
guaethol
heartachingly
hexosemonophosphate pathway
ideation management
information group seperator
internetize
inworks
ISDS
Islamophile
kamimuria lepida
labour saving device
lexical redundancy rule
main patent
mantel-tree
material requested
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maximum water holding capacity
MEAP
merchandise inventory initial
mode simulator
mpri
n-resonance
NAPG
nazek
NPRINT
oil gaging tape
olazbal
operating system service
ototoxicology
paddy field
pail for used dressings
pepsinogen-ii
picture synchronization transmission system
platinum-wire ring
PMS
popistry
Presumed Choice of Law
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rammer
recompensers
reinventive
renipelvic
resin catcher
right most terminal set
rudder-head shaft
self-cleaning contacts
Serratia marcescens
sexual harassment in the workplace
sit for the examination
skill worker
stand someone up
steinhorn
stratocumuli
Strömfors
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talent introduction
tertiary constriction
tie something up
tolui
torpedo testing barge
unaddicted
Valley Stream
variable geometry aircraft
whitemetal lining
wrastle