历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-08-11
时间:2019-02-14 作者:英语课 分类:历史上的今天-2014年
August 11th 1965In Los Angeles, 6 days of deadly rioting and looting erupt in the predominantly black section of Watts 1. 34 people are killed, more than a thousand others are injured and hundreds of buildings are devastated 2 before order is restored. It's a turning point for America's civil rights movement as peaceful protestors in the South give way to violent clashes in the nation's major cities. 1984A joke by President Ronald Reagan during a voice test for a paid political radio address causes a Cold War flap: "All right, my fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw 3 Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes."1992The Mall of America, at the time the biggest indoor mall in the United States and still one of the nation's largest opens in Bloomington, Minnesota.
1921Alex Haley, author of Roots -- the African-American family saga 4 that became a hit TV mini-series, is born in Ithaca, New York.
And 1956Abstract painter Jackson Pollock dies in an auto 5 accident on New York's Long Island. He was 44Today in History, August 11th. Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.
- My lamp uses 60 watts; my toaster uses 600 watts. 我的灯用60瓦,我的烤面包器用600瓦。
- My lamp uses 40 watts. 我的灯40瓦。
- The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
- His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。
- The outlaw hid out in the hills for several months.逃犯在山里隐藏了几个月。
- The outlaw has been caught.歹徒已被抓住了。
- The saga of Flight 19 is probably the most repeated story about the Bermuda Triangle.飞行19中队的传说或许是有关百慕大三角最重复的故事。
- The novel depicts the saga of a family.小说描绘了一个家族的传奇故事。