历史上的今天:11月27日

时间：2009-12-06 01:23:14

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Today's Highlight in History:
On November 27th, 1973, the Senate voted 92-to-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford¹ as vice² president, succeeding接任 Spiro T. Agnew, who'd resigned.

On this date:
In 1901, Army War College was established in Washington DC.

In 1910, New York's Pennsylvania Station opened.

In 1939, the play "Key Largo," by Maxwell Anderson, opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York.

In 1942, during World War Two, the French navy at Toulon scuttled凿沉 its ships and submarines潜艇 to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis⁴.

In 1945, General George C. Marshall was named special US envoy⁵ to China to try to end hostilities⁶ between the Nationalists and the Communists.

In 1953, playwright⁷剧作家 Eugene O'Neill died in Boston at age 65.

In 1970, Pope Paul the Sixth, visiting the Philippines, was slightly wounded at the Manila airport by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised假装 as a priest神父.

In 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor⁸ Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist⁹, were shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White.

In 1983, 183 people were killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashed near Madrid's Barajas airport.

In 1985, the British House of Commons approved the Anglo-Irish accord一致，调和 giving Dublin a consultative协商的，咨询的 role in the governing of British-ruled Northern Ireland.

Ten years ago: 107 people were killed when a bomb blamed by police on drug traffickers destroyed a Colombian jetliner喷射客机, minutes after the plane had taken off from Bogota's international airport.

Five years ago: Defense¹⁰ Secretary William Perry, appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," suggested the Bosnian government had lost the war in the Balkans, and acknowledged NATO was powerless to stop the Serbs.

One year ago: Answering 81 questions put to him three weeks earlier, President Clinton wrote the House Judiciary Committee that his testimony证言，证据 in the Monica Lewinsky affair was "not false and misleading."

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1 Ford
n.浅滩，水浅可涉处；v.涉水，涉过
参考例句：
They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上，所以我们只能涉水过河。 If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪，必须极度小心。

2 vice
n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的
参考例句：
He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。 They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

3 scuttled
v.使船沉没( scuttle的过去式和过去分词 )；快跑，急走
参考例句：
She scuttled off when she heard the sound of his voice. 听到他的说话声，她赶紧跑开了。 The thief scuttled off when he saw the policeman. 小偷看见警察来了便急忙跑掉。来自《简明英汉词典》

4 Nazis
n.（德国的）纳粹党员( Nazi的名词复数 )；纳粹主义
参考例句：
The Nazis worked them over with gun butts. 纳粹分子用枪托毒打他们。来自《简明英汉词典》 The Nazis were responsible for the mass murder of Jews during World War Ⅱ. 纳粹必须为第二次世界大战中对犹太人的大屠杀负责。来自《简明英汉词典》

5 envoy
n.使节，使者，代表，公使
参考例句：
Their envoy showed no sign of responding to our proposals.他们的代表对我方的提议毫无回应的迹象。 The government has not yet appointed an envoy to the area.政府尚未向这一地区派过外交官。

6 hostilities
n.战争；敌意(hostility的复数)；敌对状态；战事
参考例句：
Mexico called for an immediate cessation of hostilities. 墨西哥要求立即停止敌对行动。 All the old hostilities resurfaced when they met again. 他们再次碰面时，过去的种种敌意又都冒了出来。

7 playwright
n.剧作家，编写剧本的人
参考例句：
Gwyn Thomas was a famous playwright.格温·托马斯是著名的剧作家。 The playwright was slaughtered by the press.这位剧作家受到新闻界的无情批判。

8 supervisor
n.监督人，管理人，检查员，督学，主管，导师
参考例句：
Between you and me I think that new supervisor is a twit.我们私下说，我认为新来的主管人是一个傻瓜。 He said I was too flighty to be a good supervisor.他说我太轻浮不能成为一名好的管理员。

9 activist
n.活动分子，积极分子
参考例句：
He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。 He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。

10 defense
n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩
参考例句：
The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。 The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

11 testimony
n.证词；见证，证明
参考例句：
The testimony given by him is dubious.他所作的证据是可疑的。 He was called in to bear testimony to what the police officer said.他被传入为警官所说的话作证。