历史上的今天:05月09日

时间：2008-11-14 06:51:08

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Today's Highlight in History:
On May ninth, 1960, the Food and Drug Administration approved a pill as safe for birth control use. (The pill, Enovid, was made by G.D. Searle and Company of Chicago.)
On this date:
In 1502, Christopher Columbus left Cadiz, Spain, on his fourth and final trip to the Western Hemisphere.

In 1754, a cartoon in Benjamin Franklin's "Pennsylvania Gazette" showed a snake cut into sections, each part representing an American colony; the caption1 read, "Join or die."

In 1926, Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett became the first men to fly over the North Pole.

In 1936, Italy annexed2 Ethiopia.

In 1945, US officials announced that the midnight entertainment curfew was being lifted immediately.

In 1961, Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton N. Minow condemned3 television programming as a "vast wasteland" in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters

In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee opened hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment4 of President Nixon.

In 1978, the bullet-riddled body of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, who'd been abducted5 by the Red Brigades, was found in an automobile6 in the center of Rome.

In 1980, 35 motorists were killed when a Liberian freighter rammed7 the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida, causing a 14-hundred-foot section to collapse8.

In 1994, South Africa's newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country's first black president.

Ten years ago: President Bush and congressional leaders announced plans for emergency budget talks, with tax increases and spending cuts on the negotiating table.

Five years ago: President Clinton arrived in Moscow for a summit with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. The city of Kinshasa, Zaire, was placed under quarantine after an outbreak of the Ebola virus. The United States returned 13 Cuban boat people to their homeland, the first refugees to be sent back under a new policy bitterly protested by Cuban-Americans.

One year ago: A chartered bus carrying members of a casino club on a Mother's Day gambling9 excursion flipped10 off a highway in New Orleans, killing11 22 people. Furious Chinese demonstrators hurled12 rocks and debris13 into the US Embassy in a second day of protests against NATO's bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia.

 


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1 caption FT2y3     
n.说明，字幕，标题；v.加上标题，加上说明
参考例句：
  • I didn't understand the drawing until I read the caption.直到我看到这幅画的说明才弄懂其意思。
  • There is a caption under the picture.图片下边附有说明。
2 annexed ca83f28e6402c883ed613e9ee0580f48     
[法] 附加的，附属的
参考例句：
  • Germany annexed Austria in 1938. 1938年德国吞并了奥地利。
  • The outlying villages were formally annexed by the town last year. 那些偏远的村庄于去年正式被并入该镇。
3 condemned condemned     
adj. 被责难的, 被宣告有罪的 动词condemn的过去式和过去分词
参考例句：
  • He condemned the hypocrisy of those politicians who do one thing and say another. 他谴责了那些说一套做一套的政客的虚伪。
  • The policy has been condemned as a regressive step. 这项政策被认为是一种倒退而受到谴责。
4 impeachment fqSzd5     
n.弹劾；控告；怀疑
参考例句：
  • Impeachment is considered a drastic measure in the United States.在美国，弹劾被视为一种非常激烈的措施。
  • The verdict resulting from his impeachment destroyed his political career.他遭弹劾后得到的判决毁了他的政治生涯。
5 abducted 73ee11a839b49a2cf5305f1c0af4ca6a     
劫持，诱拐( abduct的过去式和过去分词 )； 使（肢体等）外展
参考例句：
  • Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
  • The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。
6 automobile rP1yv     
n.汽车，机动车
参考例句：
  • He is repairing the brake lever of an automobile.他正在修理汽车的刹车杆。
  • The automobile slowed down to go around the curves in the road.汽车在路上转弯时放慢了速度。
7 rammed 99b2b7e6fc02f63b92d2b50ea750a532     
v.夯实（土等）( ram的过去式和过去分词 )；猛撞；猛压；反复灌输
参考例句：
  • Two passengers were injured when their taxi was rammed from behind by a bus. 公共汽车从后面撞来，出租车上的两位乘客受了伤。
  • I rammed down the earth around the newly-planted tree. 我将新栽的树周围的土捣硬。 来自《简明英汉词典》
8 collapse aWvyE     
vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷
参考例句：
  • 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。
9 gambling ch4xH     
n.赌博；投机
参考例句：
  • They have won a lot of money through gambling.他们赌博赢了很多钱。
  • The men have been gambling away all night.那些人赌了整整一夜。
10 flipped 5bef9da31993fe26a832c7d4b9630147     
轻弹( flip的过去式和过去分词 )； 按（开关）； 快速翻转； 急挥
参考例句：
  • The plane flipped and crashed. 飞机猛地翻转，撞毁了。
  • The carter flipped at the horse with his whip. 赶大车的人扬鞭朝着马轻轻地抽打。
11 killing kpBziQ     
n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财
参考例句：
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
12 hurled 16e3a6ba35b6465e1376a4335ae25cd2     
v.猛投，用力掷( hurl的过去式和过去分词 )；大声叫骂
参考例句：
  • He hurled a brick through the window. 他往窗户里扔了块砖。
  • The strong wind hurled down bits of the roof. 大风把屋顶的瓦片刮了下来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
13 debris debris     
n.瓦砾堆，废墟，碎片
参考例句：
  • After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
  • Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上，导致蛀牙。

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