历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-04-25
时间：2019-01-19 作者：英语课 分类：历史上的今天-2012年
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April 25th, 1874Radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi is born in Bologna, Italy. “In spite of the great distance bodily separating us, you hear my voice as clearly and distinctly as I think you should.”
1507,America gets its name, nearly fifteen years after Christopher Columbus' first voyage to the New World. A German cartographer first uses the term on a world map to refer to the huge land mass in the Western Hemisphere. The name is in honor of Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian navigator.
1945,During World War II, American and Soviet 1 troops in Europe meet on the Elbe River. It's a sign that the collapse 2 of Nazi 3 Germany and the end of the war in Europe are near.
1990,“Ah, first of NASA's great observatories 4 is now on station at 330 nautical 5 miles above the earth.” Space Shuttle Discovery deploys 6 the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit around the Earth.
And 1918,“A-tisket A-tasket A brown and yellow basket I send a letter.” Ella Fitzgerald, one of the great jazz singers of the 20th Century, is born in Newport News, Virginia.
Today in History, April 25th, Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press.
adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃
- Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
- Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。
vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷
- The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
- The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
n.纳粹分子，adj.纳粹党的，纳粹的
- They declare the Nazi regime overthrown and sue for peace.他们宣布纳粹政权已被推翻，并出面求和。
- Nazi closes those war criminals inside their concentration camp.纳粹把那些战犯关在他们的集中营里。
n.天文台，气象台( observatory的名词复数 )
- John Heilbron, The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories, 3-23. 约翰．海耳布隆，《教会里的太阳：教堂即太阳观测台》，第3-23页。 来自互联网
- Meteorologists use satellites, land observatories and historical data to provide information about the weather. 气象学家使用卫星、上天文台和历史资料来提供有关天气的信息。 来自互联网
adj.海上的，航海的，船员的
- A nautical mile is 1,852 meters.一海里等于1852米。
- It is 206 nautical miles from our present location.距离我们现在的位置有206海里。