历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-09-20
时间：2019-02-14 作者：英语课 分类：历史上的今天-2014年
英语课
September 20th, 1519Ferdinand Magellan sets out from Spain on a voyage to find a western passage to the Spice Islands in Indonesia. The Portuguese 1 explorer is killed in the Philippines, but one of his ships eventually becomes the first to circle the world. 1958,In New York City, a brush with death for the Reverend Martin Luther King, Junior. The civil rights leader is seriously wounded when an apparently 2 deranged 3 woman stabs him during an appearance at a department store. King recovers from the attack.
2005,Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust 4 survivor 5 who pursued fugitive 6 Nazis 7 for decades after WWII, dies in Vienna, Austria. He was 96 years old.
1934,“You’ve been through this hundreds of times; I need to know, where do you find your courage.” Sophia Loren, the Italian movie actress who became a global sex symbol, is born in Rome.
And 1973,What's billed as the “Battle of the Sexes” takes place at the Houston Astrodome. That's where tennis star Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in straight sets. Also that same year, Operator, well could you help me place this call. Singer and songwriter Jim Croce dies in a plane crash near Natchitoches, Louisiana. He was 30 years old.
Today in History, September 20th, Ed Donahue, the Associated Press.
n.葡萄牙人；葡萄牙语
- They styled their house in the Portuguese manner.他们仿照葡萄牙的风格设计自己的房子。
- Her family is Portuguese in origin.她的家族是葡萄牙血统。
adv.显然地；表面上，似乎
- An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
- He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
adj.疯狂的
- Traffic was stopped by a deranged man shouting at the sky.一名狂叫的疯子阻塞了交通。
- A deranged man shot and killed 14 people.一个精神失常的男子开枪打死了14人。
n.大破坏；大屠杀
- The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。
- Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.内贾德否认大屠杀，因为他像希特勒一样残忍。
n.生存者，残存者，幸存者
- The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
- There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。
adj.逃亡的，易逝的；n.逃犯，逃亡者
- The police were able to deduce where the fugitive was hiding.警方成功地推断出那逃亡者躲藏的地方。
- The fugitive is believed to be headed for the border.逃犯被认为在向国境线逃窜。