历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-12-26
时间：2018-12-02 作者：英语课 分类：历史上的今天-2010年
December 26th, 2004, A tsunami 1 kills more than 200, 000 people, most of them in southern Asia and leaves tens of thousands more missing. Among the countries, hardest hit by deadly waves Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. The tsunami was triggered by the world's most powerful earthquake in 40 years beneath the India Ocean. 1996,Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder 2, Colorado. Ten years later, John Mark Karr was arrested in Thailand and called the suspect in JonBenét’s murder. But DNA 3 evidence later clears Karr and the slaying 4 remains 5 unsolved.
1941,In Washionton, Winston Churchill becomes the first British prime minister to adress a joint 6 meeting of the U.S. Congress. Churchill whose mother was American visited Capital Hill just weeks after the U.S. entered World War II. “If my father had been an American and my mother British, instead of the other way around, I might have got here on my own.” 1972,Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the United States, dies at age 88.
2006,Gerald Ford 7, the 38th President of the United States, dies at age 93.
And 1944,The first public performance of Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie takes place in Chicago.
Today in History, December 26th. Ross Simpson, the Associated Press.
- Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
- Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。
- We all heaved together and removed the boulder.大家一齐用劲，把大石头搬开了。
- He stepped clear of the boulder.他从大石头后面走了出来。
- DNA is stored in the nucleus of a cell.脱氧核糖核酸储存于细胞的细胞核里。
- Gene mutations are alterations in the DNA code.基因突变是指DNA密码的改变。
- The man mimed the slaying of an enemy. 此人比手划脚地表演砍死一个敌人的情况。
- He is suspected of having been an accomplice in the slaying,butthey can't pin it on him. 他有嫌疑曾参与该杀人案，但他们找不到证据来指控他。
- 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。