时间:2019-02-14 作者:英语课 分类:历史上的今天-2014年


英语课

 August 27th, 1883, one of the world’s most devastating 1 explosions as the island volcano Krakatoa erupts in the South Pacific. The resulting tidal waves in Indonesia Sunda Strait kill some 36,000 people on the islands of Java and Sumatra.


1908, “In your night, we have the opportunity to move not only towards the rich society and powerful society, but upwards 2 to the great society. .” Lyndon Johnson, the first American President from the south to be elected since the Civil War, is born near Stonewall Texas. Johnson’s legacy 3 includes landmark 4 Civil Rights Laws, Medicare and Medicaid, Antipoverty Programs and tragic 5 escalation 6 of the Vietnam War.
1910, Mother Teresa, the missionary 7 who earned a Nobel Peace Prize for her work on behalf of the poor the poor, is born in present-day Macedonia.
1859, Colonel Edwin Drake drills the first successful oil well in the United States near Titusville, Pennsylvania.
1979, Britain’s Lord Louis Mountbatten near’s killed when his boat explodes off the coast of Ireland. The Irish Republican Army claims responsibility for the blast.
And 1967, Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, is found dead in his London flat after an overdose of sleeping pills . Epstein who help guide the Fab Four to Rock and Roll stardom was 32 years old.
Today is History. August 27th. Ed Donahue, the Associated Press.

adj.毁灭性的,令人震惊的,强有力的
  • It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
  • Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。
adv.向上,在更高处...以上
  • The trend of prices is still upwards.物价的趋向是仍在上涨。
  • The smoke rose straight upwards.烟一直向上升。
n.遗产,遗赠;先人(或过去)留下的东西
  • They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
  • He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。
n.陆标,划时代的事,地界标
  • The Russian Revolution represents a landmark in world history.俄国革命是世界历史上的一个里程碑。
  • The tower was once a landmark for ships.这座塔曾是船只的陆标。
adj.悲剧的,悲剧性的,悲惨的
  • The effect of the pollution on the beaches is absolutely tragic.污染海滩后果可悲。
  • Charles was a man doomed to tragic issues.查理是个注定不得善终的人。
n.扩大,增加
  • The threat of nuclear escalation remains. 核升级的威胁仍旧存在。 来自辞典例句
  • Escalation is thus an aspect of deterrence and of crisis management. 因此逐步升级是威慑和危机处理的一个方面。 来自辞典例句
adj.教会的,传教(士)的;n.传教士
  • She taught in a missionary school for a couple of years.她在一所教会学校教了两年书。
  • I hope every member understands the value of missionary work. 我希望教友都了解传教工作的价值。
学英语单词
acid proteases
aerial cable line
air handling equipment
ambient-temperature compensation
assenter
autoinhibiting
automatic chute
beat sb hollow
boron p-tolyl difluoride
buttterworthing
calson
canacids
capsuler
carrier suppression system
cast urea-formaldehyde plastic
cattaro (kotor)
celadon with brown mottles
ckii
classlessly
conical net
conjugate depth
consolidated slow test
constant-volume thermometer
currentest
determination of patentability
digital data transmission system
directrix of conic
El Jadida, Wilaya
El Saucejo
electro-therapeutic display of blunt needle
eohippus
Ethatab
flappier
free from disease
fruit gardening
fuel mineral
geometric solution
glacier buttercup
Glycerol-1-phosphatase
goksel
governance
Green Line
Haemopis sanguisuga
half-tone information
Hardyan
hay varieties
hip-cat
Homochloreyclizine
intensity of wave pressure
interpretatio
knowledge engineer
Languas speciosa
leave function
lightbox
loading berm
magazine tool holder
main reasons
Make directory
Mary Of Orange
masked off
moment of precession
oil proof test
oneironaut
oversend
painted frog
Pardew
pass fish eyes for pearls
Peflate
physical system time
PID tuning
production control function
Prosiphneus
Putyatina, Ostrov
Pyrogelite
raisin pudding
reche
recovery characteristic
Robinson's disease
RQLIQ
Ruoti
scale error card
scavia
second-hand witness
semicarbazide hydrochloride
small hole electrospark grinding
static classes
statistiquement
stirrest
Styphnolobium japonicum
sulphide barrier
synchondroses petrooccipitalis
Temangan
threepeated
tittler
unemploy
velocity-focussing mass-spectrograph
virtual pair
visualisings
wide-angle photograph
zipless