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。
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amphophil
androgenca
antemortem bloating
antifermions
backlayering
Balto-Slav
basic diet
bewe
boiler installation
Bush, George (Herbert Walker)
calender bonding
carrier hay loader
chassis kerb mass
cognitive system
convection pass
core deposits
corn crusher
cpcc
crispy critter
cubic parsec
cutting-off wheel
cynomys mexicanus
deck chairs
desunt
dielectric membrane
disposable assets
double cup porcelain insulator
double duty
double strand pig machine
duration
Ephedra sinica poisoning
fallout area
family migration
fishhouse
flightdeck
ganglionostomy
germ-layer theory
Gleason cutter
Gleditschia officinalis
globby
guestbooks
Hausdorff metric
HMLR
Holywell Bay
Hunting Dogs, the
hydroballistics
icedrakes
Imre
industrial injuries disablement benefit
intercolumnar tubercles
issid
jingoist
kinison
Kopp's law of additive volumes
lead beam
liquor entericus
local prescription
lv's
LVST
man-sized
monin-obukhov equation
move with text
muchachos
natural immunization
natural sample pam
nebularia puncticulata
Nelaton's sphincter
nomen dubium
octet theory
Penukonda
physical data base record type
postdentary
pyrouric acid
quad clock driver
quasi-isotropic laminate
radio-frequency cable
rearranged molecular ion
reciprocal variation
relay governing
Repeat the last find operation
rinse-aids
rise from grave
roughing stand
ruby-crowned kinglets
shaft-driven helicopter
sodium nickelous(ii) sulfate
Solfammide
soyasapogenin
spatial frequency column
stag hide
stanniocalcin
state-led
steure
Tarasp
Tate R.
transporteth
trunnion brass
Upper Ganga Can.
vamping
vanishing point of stability
wealthy