时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2007年


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August 15th 1945, what's known as VJ Day. The United States and its allies 1 mark the effective end of WWII after 6 years of fighting. They celebrate the defeat of the Axis 2 powers a day after Japan agrees to an unconditional 3 surrender.


1969, in upstate New York, the counterculture comes together for Woodstock. The largest rock concert of the 60s'. "what we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000. Among the acts of the festival which ended more than 3 days later. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who, The Grateful Dead, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young..


1769, Napoleon Bonaparte, the French general and ruler whose wars reshaped the map of Europe is born on the island of Corsica.


1947, in Asia, India gains its independence a day after neighboring Pakistan is established, concluding British colonial 4 rule over the entire Indian subcontinent.


1998, in Northern Ireland, the deadliest terror attack in decades of sectarian violence takes place in the town of Omagh. That's where a car bomb planted by an IRA splinter group kills 29 people and wounds hundreds of others.


1914, in central America, the Panama Canal opens to shipping 5 traffic, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.


And 1939, the "Wizard of Oz", the movie musical fantasy starring Judy Garland, that remains 6 a pop culture classic premieres in Hollywood.


Today in History, August 15th. Cameo Bohemen Associated Press.



1 allies
联盟国,同盟者; 同盟国,同盟者( ally的名词复数 ); 支持者; 盟军
  • The allies would fear that they were pawns in a superpower condominium. 这个联盟担心他们会成为超级大国共管的牺牲品。
  • A number of the United States' allies had urged him not to take a hasty decision. 美国的一些盟友已力劝他不要急于作决定。
2 axis
n.轴,轴线,中心线;坐标轴,基准线
  • The earth's axis is the line between the North and South Poles.地轴是南北极之间的线。
  • The axis of a circle is its diameter.圆的轴线是其直径。
3 unconditional
adj.无条件的,无限制的,绝对的
  • The victorious army demanded unconditional surrender.胜方要求敌人无条件投降。
  • My love for all my children is unconditional.我对自己所有孩子的爱都是无条件的。
4 colonial
adj.殖民地的,关于殖民的;n.殖民地,居民
  • The natives were unwilling to be bent by colonial power.土著居民不愿受殖民势力的摆布。
  • The people of Africa have successfully fought against colonial rule.非洲人民成功地反抗了殖民统治。
5 shipping
n.船运(发货,运输,乘船)
  • We struck a bargain with an American shipping firm.我们和一家美国船运公司谈成了一笔生意。
  • There's a shipping charge of £5 added to the price.价格之外另加五英镑运输费。
6 remains
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
学英语单词
adipic dinitrile
aileron trim
antimony ore
apatite
articulationes columnae
atriodigital dysplasia
Autosfig
bare karst
basic assumption
blepho-
boss (nave)
busies
carryload scraper
casual games
cellar dwellers
chromosphere
clippie
compaction correction
completeness of axiom system
continuous speech
crassifolia
defibrinize
difitoxin
dissacharide
Dutchman's log
eidetically
electrocardiographs
elimination chromosome
emergency restart
equalness
equiasymptotical stability
european goatsuckers
experience-curve
flat card
flying control equipment
forest succession
frog in a sock
gas turbine pump combination
gasoline gauge switch
good-enough
gousikte
gravity propulsion
gummatous syphilid
gyms
Halomycetin
high-speed drive
hilus of spleen
iascs
image translation
instapundit
insufficient to
interdunal depression
intermediate reduction pinion
inwardly
ion emission
irite
jinnier
lupoid cutaneous leishmaniasis
Manéah
metaatom
mortise block
Mostaganem, Wilaya de
Mr. Goodbar
Mörön Gol
nacba
nasomental reflex
nickel chrome molybdenum steel
optimum fishing rate
out-marriage
pathetics
pianola roll
pneumohemothorax
polar gnomonic charts
positivist paradigm
production family
propionylpromazine
proppy
refrigerated depot section
roadholding
rubber flag
rutidosis
salinesyringe
scleroderma citrinums
seek after
short notice
sloots
state-to-state reaction dynamics
Sternodymy
system of geodesic coordinates
System speaker
trabeculas
transportation control point
trickle up
trigonum urogenitale
utole
w.o.c.
western hemlock spruce
white jellyfungus
without accident
youthening
Zagrebians
zayna