时间:2019-02-14 作者:英语课 分类:历史上的今天-2010年


英语课

 October 16th, 1859“John Brown's body lies a moldering in the grave, John Brown's body lies a moldering in the grave, but his soul goes marching on.”


An incident that brings America closer to Civil War. Abolitionist John Brown leads a raid on a Federal arsenal 1 in Harper’s Ferry in what’s now West Virginia, hoping to spark a slave revolt. Brown later surrenders and is executed.
1793During the French Revolution Queen Marie Antoinette who was said to have told France starving people, “Let them eat cake” is beheaded.
1978The Roman Catholic Church chooses its first non-Italian Pope in more than 450 years. He is Polish Cardinal 2 Karol Wojtyla who takes the name of John Paul II.
1973American Henry Kissinger and North Vietnam’s Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. They are honored for negotiating a cease-fire in the Vietnam War. But Le declines the award saying he can’t accept because the Vietnamese don’t have peace.
1998In London British police arrest Chile’s former dictator Augusto Pinochet. They detain him for questioning about the allegations that he had murdered Spanish citizens during his years in power. Pinochet eventually returns to Chile but he faces investigations 3 and court cases there until he dies 8 years later.
1916Margaret Sanger opens the first birth-control clinic in Brooklyn, New York. She is later arrested and serves 30 days in jail after police raid the clinic.
1987End of a 58-and-a-half-hour drama in Midland, Texas. That’s where rescuers free Jessica McClure, an 18-month-old girl trapped in an abandoned well.
And 1997Novelist James Michener whose South Pacific tales inspired Broadway musical, dies in Austin, Texas.
Today in History, October 16th, Tim Maguire, the Associate Press.

n.兵工厂,军械库
  • Even the workers at the arsenal have got a secret organization.兵工厂工人暗中也有组织。
  • We must be the great arsenal of democracy.我们必须成为民主的大军火库。
n.(天主教的)红衣主教;adj.首要的,基本的
  • This is a matter of cardinal significance.这是非常重要的事。
  • The Cardinal coloured with vexation. 红衣主教感到恼火,脸涨得通红。
(正式的)调查( investigation的名词复数 ); 侦查; 科学研究; 学术研究
  • His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查,但没有发现什么。
  • He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。
学英语单词
a slut
Alliance for Progress
artificial duct
asymptotic slope
beldame
bid-price
bierstekers
blank map
Briss
catheretic
cathodic protection automatically controlled
causeymakers
cet. par.
chilauni
Coffeen Lake
compost grinder
Conia.
cooled-air circulation refrigeration machine
crystal sender
denalis
dibenzyltin dibromide
earth filtering
epoxy-amine resin
financial services sector
Fluvoxaminum
FSBO
fuel-savings
gadolinites
gosther
hard to get
hide your light under a bushel
high-centre
hokiangas
hopper freight car
Humbauville
if push comes to shove
integral ring
isdn digital subscriber line
Kichma
larval molting
lime arsenate
lineshaft
loovesum
m mode ultrasonic scanning
mass extinction coefficient
Mead, Margaret
medullary plate (or neural plate)
metal halide
metauranopilite
microsporosis capitis
My Quang
nonelement
oceanic bonitoes
office of prime minister and cabinet
Olintepeque
outline bar
palaeocon
phellodendron amurenses
piezoelectric driver
pillar crane
plasterable
political agenda
polyp of rectum
polyphenylene sulfide composite
priscillians
pullig
quadrumana
records service firing
rocker keel
roof structure to falls
rotating coupler
Rotava
salsaed
sindony
sisso
sodium metazirconate
speedometer main shaft
squeakless
stereocamera
stiklestad
studio floor
subgalea
subsurface trickle irrigation
superparts
supervacaneousness
television tape
text library
the fine print
the presence or absence of anthocyanin pigments
the sweets and bitters of life
thrust lift nozzle
time trial
unilateral hermaph-roditism
uniprocessor system
unrestless
value number
vertical phasing
vibration regulation law
wastoid
water bone infection
xestia csoevarii
yolk sphere