时间:2019-02-14 作者:英语课 分类:历史上的今天-2015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
ahemeral days
arbitrary-function generator
beam intensity distribution
beginning of conversation
calorie small
can you feel my world
carboxylic acrylonitrile butadiene rubber latex
cargo winch
champenize
chlorvinyldichloroarsine
chrome-manganese-silicon alloy steel
chromospheric eruption
cioteronel
coaminopherase
compilation order
computer main frequency
corporate group
corsse
cross-section ionization detector
cube farm
decade band
decentralised
deep trades
deformable raft
denounc't
diphthongise
do what one is capable of
dynamic geomorphology
electronic specific heat
emiss
feather picker
financial supervision
fire resistant paint
genus pezizas
get a patent on
get robbed
go with
Gran Colombia
grenade throwers
gyro-TWT
hanson
harebin
have one's bread buttered for life
highly-academic
insulinization
interference inversion
It's a small world.
large rock mass
lethrinus variegatus
linguistic description
lowest normal low water
Malvastrum coromandelianum
mangan-Rockbridgeite
manzanar
medium-intensity approach light system
mendigo
metranemia
Moorhusen
nag screens
oceanite
patholinguistics
patripassianism
persuing
phenanthrine
photopolymerization system
phototroller
project into
proofreadings
public decision making
pulse-power breakdown
pump power input
pyruric
Rami nasales anteriores laterales
range of mountains
rated revolutions
rheticus
risic acid
Réclère
self-blinded
separated layer fertilization
sexual chemistry
shrieved
shrinking and thinning
siphonuli
smallness of cornea
sokoloff
Spinoolivary
star cross
stowing machine
subclavial
tabp
temperature anomaly
tethery
time working day
time-life
transmitter frequency tolerance
u-verse
usuals
walking bosses
water discipline
wow us
Zhanay