时间:2019-02-14 作者:英语课 分类:历史上的今天-2013年


英语课

 August 14th, 1945. “This is a victory of more than arms alone; this is a victory of liberty over tyranny.”


In Washington, President Harry 1 Truman announces Japan’s unconditional 2 surrender, ending WWII. Weeks later, a surrender ceremony on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay formally concludes 6 years of fighting in Europe and the Pacific.
2003. 50 million people lose power as a huge blackout hits the northeastern United States and parts of Canada. An Ohio-based utility later receives much of the blame for the outages, which highlight the condition of North America’s power grid 3.
1935. “Today a hope of many years' standing 4 is in large part fulfilled.”
In Washington, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act. The law provides retirement 5 income to elderly Americans and other government benefits to this day.
1969. British troops arrive in Northern Ireland. They’re sent there to intervene amid a surge in sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics. But that violence continues to flare 6 in the troubled province until a peace process emerges decades later.
1980. During the Cold War, workers begin a strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland. The job action leads to the Solidarity 7 labor 8 movement, the first in dependent union behind the Iron Curtain. Solidarity helps topple Communism in Poland by the end of the decade.
And 1945. “Excue me.”
Steve Martin, actor, comedian 9, writer and producer is born in Waco, Texas. Today in History, August 14th. Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.

vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
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。
n.高压输电线路网;地图坐标方格;格栅
  • In this application,the carrier is used to encapsulate the grid.在这种情况下,要用载体把格栅密封起来。
  • Modern gauges consist of metal foil in the form of a grid.现代应变仪则由网格形式的金属片组成。
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
n.退休,退职
  • She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.她想享受退休生活而不必为金钱担忧。
  • I have to put everything away for my retirement.我必须把一切都积蓄起来以便退休后用。
v.闪耀,闪烁;n.潮红;突发
  • The match gave a flare.火柴发出闪光。
  • You need not flare up merely because I mentioned your work.你大可不必因为我提到你的工作就动怒。
n.团结;休戚相关
  • They must preserve their solidarity.他们必须维护他们的团结。
  • The solidarity among China's various nationalities is as firm as a rock.中国各族人民之间的团结坚如磐石。
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
n.喜剧演员;滑稽演员
  • The comedian tickled the crowd with his jokes.喜剧演员的笑话把人们逗乐了。
  • The comedian enjoyed great popularity during the 30's.那位喜剧演员在三十年代非常走红。
学英语单词
'Ammār, Tall
abaca
analog decoding
annular slot antenna
ante
aroma former
Ateculon
automatic repeat request
benei
Beroida
bigarreau
bimetallic bar
black porgy
borough hall
bowies
bowler hats
breaking-strains
brezova pod bradlom
chermidaes
constant voltage control circuit
crack due to settlement
cross-fish
defaceable
disconnector spring
eccentric-reducer
electroantennographic
evaporating dish
expressive culture
extretory
fire face
Firefox OS
firetubes
flydrive
forest supervisor
freedom of the open sea
front wheel steering tipper
gamma cell
gate on
give of one's best
Graulhet
Greek sculpture
gyneduct
hardware redundancy
hassocky
heat kill
Hersey, John
hexadecyl phosphate
hydrological statistics
hydroxyethyl cellulose
I/O queue
kenogenesis
kraamer
Limnopithecus
logistics support plan
loose core
macerich
maximum program
metallic-rectifier cell
miasmaler
micro-crack
mix it
mixed pumped-storage plant
moeble
near cash
norscopine
o-tolidine dihydrochloride
officegoers
on one's bill
opposition of propositions
opticomalacia
ostgota step
pabulums
paid call
perfumelike
phthalocyaninato complex
plasma-ray device
predicted intercept area
pseudophilosophic
purple finches
pyrophiles
regional economy
roback
shatwell
silver firs
sipress
skedaddled
Solanaceae alkaloids
spherical radius factor
spokesmen
star-herald
statistical significance
sterile abscesses
surface reclamation
synoscope
technographic
tetchy
uniformable
vibratory decladding
voluntary chain
weeping tree brooms
whole abdominal multivisceral transplantation
woodwasp