时间:2019-01-19 作者:英语课 分类:历史上的今天-2015年


英语课

 April 18th, 1906A devastating 1 earthquake strikes San Francisco, flattening 2 buildings and setting off raging fires. Estimates of the final death toll 3 range between three-thousand and six-thousand in one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit an American city.


1775, In Massachusetts, several post riders set out to warn colonists 4 of the British attack that starts the American Revolution.
One patriotic 5 myth growing out of that movement begins with a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem called “Paul Reverie’s Ride.”
1983, A suicide bomber 6 kills 63 people including 17 Americans at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon's capital, Beirut.
1955, Physicist 7 Albert Einstein, considered the greatest scientist of the 20th Century, dies in Princeton, New Jersey 8. He was 76.
And 1999, Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky plays his last NHL game at New York's Madison Square Garden. Gretzky, nicknamed “The Great One” for setting so many records, says it's time to move on.
“It's hard. This is a great game, but it's a hard game. I’m ready.”
Today in History, April 18th, 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。
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
n.殖民地开拓者,移民,殖民地居民( colonist的名词复数 )
  • Colonists from Europe populated many parts of the Americas. 欧洲的殖民者移居到了美洲的许多地方。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Some of the early colonists were cruel to the native population. 有些早期移居殖民地的人对当地居民很残忍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.爱国的,有爱国心的
  • His speech was full of patriotic sentiments.他的演说充满了爱国之情。
  • The old man is a patriotic overseas Chinese.这位老人是一位爱国华侨。
n.轰炸机,投弹手,投掷炸弹者
  • He flew a bomber during the war.他在战时驾驶轰炸机。
  • Detectives hunting the London bombers will be keen to interview him.追查伦敦爆炸案凶犯的侦探们急于对他进行讯问。
n.物理学家,研究物理学的人
  • He is a physicist of the first rank.他是一流的物理学家。
  • The successful physicist never puts on airs.这位卓有成就的物理学家从不摆架子。
n.运动衫
  • He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
  • They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致,都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。
学英语单词
additive preference
Advanced Earth Resource Observation System
adversive fields
after sight bill
Allium chrysocephalum
amaranthuss
anocleithrum
auditory bone
baldor
Banfield
be mounted with gems
beet scale
beutel
Bialzepam
bodach
censurably
ceratina (ceratinidia) okinawana taiwanensis
Chaenomeles fruit pill
chayotes
cimicifugin
circular measurement
cold cuts
colllywobbles
conject
crawl effect
cyanosilylation
dark adaptometer
delevoy
diflunisals
extended coupon
external acoustic meatus (or external auditory passage)
falling film
first minister
folding nappe
Galactic concentration
gallups
genus protiums
glucuronic
grossinger
group-size
guard delay
HAC,H.A.C.
Hexacrinus
holy family
human-oriented
hurin
i.b.m
insystem emulator
irrelevant explanatory variable
jeopard
Katla
Larkana Division
lavin
libration point
lobaria isidiosa
membranae pituitosa
metromedia
nalven
oligarchically
onthophagus (onthophagus) sauteri
oppresseth
optimal channel mapping
outer face
pantss
papalizes
party not in default
pawmpelion
Pholdine
physical similarity
platinum boat
porous microbeads support
pre-contractual disclosure
pressotransducer
pyrron detector
Quela
re-investigate
receive slip
remittent
renardite
renig
retroperitoneal tuberculosis
Rhombinin
rolling-pair
rotary lifter
rubor
security cultures
single-parent family
Sisto's sign
space mark
sportsfield
star-producing radiation
stationary schr?dinger equation
syntrichia princeps(dc.not)mitt.
take the gilt off gingerbread
tax on aggregate income
telescopic conveyor
true cost
washboardists
Whytt's reflex
wilhelm johannsen
wintersville
Yadiyūr