时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2009年


英语课

Well, the weather's deteriorated 1 from those ceremonies earlier in the day when we had plenty of sunshine. Now, this is a pretty good imitation of what the soldiers, sailors and airmen must have faced 65 years ago on D-Day morning, it’s of course evening in Normandy now, but in fact you can see the surf kicking up out there quite a bit. It’s raining and back then on D-Day morning they had fog, and I want to just point out the sort of difficulty that some of the servicemen had coming ashore 2 here. This is Omaha Beach, part of Omaha Beach, and coming in off the beach, they had to go up these cliffs, like you see off to my left, and in fact quite steep perhaps several hundred feet tall. And at the top were German gun emplacements and trenches 3, and the Germans were able to fire down directly onto the oncoming allied 4 soldiers. It was the kind of thing that was relived over and over again today in various parts of the beaches along here, the difficulty with coming ashore, establishing the beachhead and the amazing accomplishment 5 of those people who did it. President Barack Obama talked about that in his speech today, directly speaking to the very veterans who were here .


"You, the veterans of that landing are why we still remember what happened on D-Day. You’re why we keep coming back, for you remind us that in the end, human destiny is not determined 6 by forces beyond our control. You remind us that our future is not shaped by mere 7 chance or circumstance, our history has always been the sum total of the choices made and the actions taken by each individual man and woman. It has always been up to us."


All in all, a very moving occasion with all four leaders, the two presidents and two prime ministers, directly addressing the men who fought their way ashore here 65 years ago today.


Jim Bittermann CNN on Omaha beach.

 



1 deteriorated
恶化,变坏( deteriorate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Her health deteriorated rapidly, and she died shortly afterwards. 她的健康状况急剧恶化,不久便去世了。
  • His condition steadily deteriorated. 他的病情恶化,日甚一日。
2 ashore
adv.在(向)岸上,上岸
  • The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前,孩子们就上岸了。
  • He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。
3 trenches
深沟,地沟( trench的名词复数 ); 战壕
  • life in the trenches 第一次世界大战期间的战壕生活
  • The troops stormed the enemy's trenches and fanned out across the fields. 部队猛攻敌人的战壕,并在田野上呈扇形散开。
4 allied
adj.协约国的;同盟国的
  • Britain was allied with the United States many times in history.历史上英国曾多次与美国结盟。
  • Allied forces sustained heavy losses in the first few weeks of the campaign.同盟国在最初几周内遭受了巨大的损失。
5 accomplishment
n.完成,成就,(pl.)造诣,技能
  • The series of paintings is quite an accomplishment.这一系列的绘画真是了不起的成就。
  • Money will be crucial to the accomplishment of our objectives.要实现我们的目标,钱是至关重要的。
6 determined
adj.坚定的;有决心的
  • I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
  • He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。
7 mere
adj.纯粹的;仅仅,只不过
  • That is a mere repetition of what you said before.那不过是重复了你以前讲的话。
  • It's a mere waste of time waiting any longer.再等下去纯粹是浪费时间。
学英语单词
-holed solid torus
-kin
Aconitum duclouxii
aeronautical telecommunication log
aidances
almost the same
aluvihare
Alyxia acutifolia
angle of cut off
aphyllorchis montana
archaeological
asymmetric, asymmetrical
be on a different wavelength
blackhead
bowrd
BRAHMAEIDAE
bruicheath (scotland)
built in property
bulk chemical code
carbazole salt
cedulamin
cephalic aura
ceramic sensor element
chargor's right
chesebrough-ponds
consumated
costal surface
definitive norm
denes
diammonium hydrogen (ortho)phosphate
Diothyl
dusthaze
enamel hypoplasia
falcon-gentles
feasibility studies
fermentograph
filter residue
flavaspidinol
flower color
frantzs
friendlings
full thrust
geekstas
genus Acinonyx
governor driving shaft
gravity pier
grieflike
grunch
gwennap
insulin comatose therapy
jagged casing
labidochromiss
lateral ventriculo-cisterna magna shunt
lattice layer
light cutting
love poem
luminous efficiency of phosphor screen
Magnoplasm
Maquiling, Mt.
Mazingu
microproteinuria
moment of a magnet
muscogulge
mycaloside
Nakhl an Nīlah
Nanbu
narcotics squad
Neocypria
NIPP-1
nourishing blood and promoting granulation
odd parity
parallelly
partition constant
pinfalls
pinhole failure
pleuropulmonal region
plexus pulmonalis anterior
Polnaya
post weld heat treatment(pwht)
protoquartzite
pseudocholinestrasedeficiency
pusher engine
radiotelephone distress frequency watch receiver
reversed phase foam chromatography
rhyolitic magma
rifacimento
Securities Exchange Commission
Shamungamba
shoulder emblem
sky grey
snailflower
stepwise dissociation
stubborn as a mule
sundholm
switch overtravel
tail shaft governor
temporary cash received and paid
the national anthem
trysails
unviewable
vehicle-to-vehicle
water environmental capacity of pollutant