时间:2019-02-14 作者:英语课 分类:历史上的今天-2014年


英语课

 November 17th, 1973,an 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’s a crook 1. Well I am not a crook. I’ve earned everything I’ve got.


3. England flourishes on the world stage” But Nixon resigns the following year when the Watergate scandal forces him from office.
1558, Elizabeth I begins the 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.
1869, in Egypt, the Suez Canal opens, a vital waterway connecting the Mediterranean 4 and Red Seas.
1800, the US Congress holds its first session in Washington D.C. in the partially 5 completed Capitol Building.
1917, sculptor 6 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 and 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, Good Fellas, 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。
n.雕刻家,雕刻家
  • A sculptor forms her material.雕塑家把材料塑造成雕塑品。
  • The sculptor rounded the clay into a sphere.那位雕塑家把黏土做成了一个球状。
学英语单词
Accident-insurance
agate jasper
An Khanh
ant-lions
anthropometrist
apogonia formosana
astacins
automatic breech mechanism
automatic ignition
axial region
baille
benzilic acid rearrangement
bite indicator
broadbeam geometry
budget-cutting
CAVD-TEST
charge correlator
Chodro
coenochyma
coir rope
comminuation
copytaker
crystal-balling
CUSUMs
danza de los montoneros (mexico)
data description skeleton
DEAB
desert polish
diabellis
double warps
dual grid tube
ecclesi-
elotes
EOF (end of file)
European perches
external definition
faisable
fine grain development
flexible bus
gamosa
gas core reactor
get back to
give a view of
glove money
head down tilt
immunotransfusion
inband
jackup
labyrinth packing
larsenite
long interspersed element (LINE)
manchu filbert
MartinIndex.
Mechnica
Medveđa
Midgard
MS-Windows
mullites
musselin
N-Benzyloxycarbonyl-L-methionine
neutron density fluctuation
niobite (columbite)
nonnaturalist
normalness
notch position
nylon-covered
obviosity
out-of-service
owise
physiographic geology
Pleura parietalis
Polymnia uyedalia
practical marine engineering
propylene product
purge status date
Pyrausta nubilalis
railway distribution system
refraction index profile
road intersection
senseful
show one's right
side fired kiln
silicon resin
sinjiangensis
snetterton
space power unit
square-link chain
standard for discharge of pollutants
storage address display lights
story book
temperature divertor
Trego County
treiman
Tunga
Tyconius
unpremeditate
unsized coal
Untersberg
Vishālgarh
whitworth screw thread gauge
yardperson
yaw checking anchor