时间:2019-02-14 作者:英语课 分类:历史上的今天-2015年


英语课

 August 2nd, 1964The Pentagon reports the first of two attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo 1 boats on U.S. destroyers in the Gulf 2 of Tonkin. Days later, President Lyndon Johnson orders the first bombing raids on North Vietnamese military installations. “We still seek no wider war.” Congress swiftly approves broad powers to Johnson to escalate 3 America's military involvement in Vietnam. A National Security Agency analysis released in 2005 contends the second attack in the Tonkin Gulf never happened.


1990,In the Persian Gulf, Iraq invades neighboring Kuwait. The following year, an American led war known as “Operation Desert Storm” drives Saddam Hussein's forces out of the oil-rich emirate. A US-led invasion of Iraq in the following decade topples Saddam from power.
1943,During WWII, a Japanese destroyer sinks a U.S. Navy torpedo boat commanded by future President John F. Kennedy. Two on board the PT-109 are killed when the destroyer rams 4 and cuts then-Lieutenant Kennedy's boat in two, off the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. Kennedy and the vessel's other survivors 5 cling to the wreckage 6 and swim to a nearby island, where they are rescued.
1923,“America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums 7 but normalcy ...” President Warren G. Harding dies in San Francisco at age 57. Vice 8 President Calvin Coolidge succeeds him in the White House.
And 1876,Frontiersman “Wild Bill” Hickok is shot and killed while playing poker 9 at a saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, what's now South Dakota.
Today in History, August 2nd, Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.

n.水雷,地雷;v.用鱼雷破坏
  • His ship was blown up by a torpedo.他的船被一枚鱼雷炸毁了。
  • Torpedo boats played an important role during World War Two.鱼雷艇在第二次世界大战中发挥了重要作用。
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
v.(使)逐步增长(或发展),(使)逐步升级
  • It would tempt Israel's neighbors to escalate their demands.它将诱使以色列的邻国不断把他们的要求升级。
  • Defeat could cause one side or other to escalate the conflict.失败可能会导致其中一方将冲突升级。
n.公羊( ram的名词复数 );(R-)白羊(星)座;夯;攻城槌v.夯实(土等)( ram的第三人称单数 );猛撞;猛压;反复灌输
  • A couple of rams are butting at each other. 两只羊正在用角互相抵触。 来自辞典例句
  • More than anything the rams helped to break what should have been on interminable marriage. 那些牡羊比任何东西都更严重地加速了他们那本该天长地久的婚姻的破裂。 来自辞典例句
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
n.(失事飞机等的)残骸,破坏,毁坏
  • They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
  • New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。
n.骗人的疗法,有专利权的药品( nostrum的名词复数 );妙策
  • It is likely that these \"enlightened\" nostrums would have speeded up the catastrophe. 这些“开明的”药方本身就可能加快灾难的到来。 来自辞典例句
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
n.扑克;vt.烙制
  • He was cleared out in the poker game.他打扑克牌,把钱都输光了。
  • I'm old enough to play poker and do something with it.我打扑克是老手了,可以玩些花样。
学英语单词
adrenergic agonist
air-conditioning refrigeration plant
allowable maximum circular velocity
amecs
antenna beamforming diversity
appret
appropriation act
approximation in quadratic norm
as sharp as a razor
attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (adhd)
background emission
baton rompu
bean cake press
Beroroha
beta-fluorography
buoso
canibal
chrominance subcarrier regenerator
claime
coin of the realm
composite pile
conflictional
continentals
control knowledge
corporin
decision support system
delta agent hepatits
di-phosphate ester
dinitro benzene
doornboom
drug acne
dyspn(o)ea
electrolumenescent lamp
endres
equalized heat distribution
FA (full-arc)
fulcrum approach
G530320
glycomolecules
Hawkridge
Hodgkisson
Huckel's molecular orbtal method
hydro-cooler
indenting stamp
indigofera carlesii craib
instant-dict
interrupt control routine
jardin anglais
jibboom saddle
Julius III
Juniperus saltuaria
kingdoms of lesotho
Kirchhoff's principle
knock the end off
links and links
logaditis
low band boost
m-tolunitrile
main communications artery
make repairs
mallorys
micro-politics
moltz
morbilli conferti
nasographic mirror
non symmetrical section
oil productivity index
omphaloid
Operation Barbarossa
oyster disease
paes
pectral response
peripleuritic abscess
picniclike
picots
pill pusher
piperis nigri fructus
plastic lens
plate motion
pole changing speed control
Polygala lacei
posable
Przewalski
pseudophylogenetic
PSPM
pteris tokioi masam.
puerperarum
radiation wasteheat boiler
railroad spike
reactivity effect
reputing
second dual module
slime of classifier
stirling's approximation
tight loop
vallisneria spiraliss
Vater-Pacini corpuscle
velitra incontaminata
wash sth out
westerplatte
wet and dry cycling resistance
white-glove test