历史上的今天:1月22日

时间：2010-01-27 01:06:05

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Today's Highlight in History:
On January 22nd, 1917, President Wilson pleaded for辩护，请求 an end to war in Europe, calling for "peace without victory." (By April, however, America also was at war.)

On this date:
In 1901, Britain's Queen Victoria died at age 82.

In 1922, Pope Benedict the 15th died; he was succeeded继承，成功 by Pius the Eleventh.

In 1938, Thornton Wilder's play "Our Town" was performed publicly for the first time, in Princeton, New Jersey¹.

In 1944, during World War Two, Allied² forces盟军，联军 began landing at Anzio, Italy.

In 1953, the Arthur Miller³ drama "The Crucible⁴" opened on Broadway.

In 1968, the comedy show "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premiered on NBC TV.

In 1970, the first regularly scheduled commercial flight of the Boeing 747 began in New York and ended in London some six and a-half hours later.

In 1973, the Supreme⁵ Court handed down宣布 its "Roe⁶ versus⁷ Wade⁸" decision, which legalized abortion⁹ using a trimester三个月 approach.

In 1973, former President Johnson died at age 64.

In 1997, the Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the nation's first female secretary of state.

Ten years ago: Up to two million Azerbaijanis marched through the republic's capital to mourn people killed when Soviet¹⁰ troops put down镇压，制止 a nationalist revolt. A jury in Syracuse, New York, convicted graduate student Robert T. Morris of federal computer tampering¹¹ charges for unleashing¹²解开，解除 a "worm" that crippled使受伤致残 a computer network.

Five years ago: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy died at the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, at age 104. Twenty-one Israelis were killed and dozens others injured in a suicide bombing in central Israel.

One year ago: Senator Robert C. Byrd (Democrat, West Virginia) abruptly突然地 called for dismissal解雇，免职 of charges against President Clinton to "end this sad and sorry time for our country." President Clinton called for spending $2.8 billion to protect the nation from cyber terrorism and chemical and germ warfare细菌战. Pope John Paul the Second arrived in Mexico on his first visit in 20 years.

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1 jersey
n.运动衫
参考例句：
He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。 They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致，都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。

2 allied
adj.协约国的；同盟国的
参考例句：
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。

3 miller
n.磨坊主
参考例句：
Every miller draws water to his own mill.磨坊主都往自己磨里注水。 The skilful miller killed millions of lions with his ski.技术娴熟的磨坊主用雪橇杀死了上百万头狮子。

4 crucible
n.坩锅，严酷的考验
参考例句：
The alliance had been forged in the crucible of war.这个联盟经受了战争的严峻考验。 Put the required amount of metal into the crucible.把适量的金属放入坩埚。

5 supreme
adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的
参考例句：
It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。 He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

6 roe
n.鱼卵；獐鹿
参考例句：
We will serve smoked cod's roe at the dinner.宴会上我们将上一道熏鳕鱼子。 I'll scramble some eggs with roe?我用鱼籽炒几个鸡蛋好吗？

7 versus
prep.以…为对手，对；与…相比之下
参考例句：
The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。 The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。

8 wade
v.跋涉，涉水；n.跋涉
参考例句：
We had to wade through the river to the opposite bank.我们只好涉水过河到对岸。 We cannot but wade across the river.我们只好趟水过去。

9 abortion
n.流产，堕胎
参考例句：
She had an abortion at the women's health clinic.她在妇女保健医院做了流产手术。 A number of considerations have led her to have a wilful abortion.多种考虑使她执意堕胎。

10 Soviet
adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃
参考例句：
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。

11 tampering
v.窜改( tamper的现在分词 )；篡改；（用不正当手段）影响；瞎摆弄
参考例句：
Two policemen were accused of tampering with the evidence. 有两名警察被控篡改证据。来自《简明英汉词典》 As Harry London had forecast, Brookside's D-day caught many meter-tampering offenders. 正如哈里·伦敦预见到的那样，布鲁克赛德的D日行动抓住了不少非法改装仪表的人。来自辞典例句

12 unleashing
v.把（感情、力量等）释放出来，发泄( unleash的现在分词 )
参考例句：
Company logos: making people's life better by unleashing Cummins power. 公司理念：以康明斯动力建设更美好的生活！来自互联网 Sooner or later the dam will burst, unleashing catastrophic destruction. 否则堤坝将崩溃，酿成灾难。来自互联网

13 abruptly
adv.突然地，出其不意地
参考例句：
He gestured abruptly for Virginia to get in the car.他粗鲁地示意弗吉尼亚上车。 I was abruptly notified that a half-hour speech was expected of me.我突然被通知要讲半个小时的话。

14 warfare
n.战争(状态)；斗争；冲突
参考例句：
He addressed the audience on the subject of atomic warfare.他向听众演讲有关原子战争的问题。 Their struggle consists mainly in peasant guerrilla warfare.他们的斗争主要是农民游击战。