简介:Today in history (历史上的今天)是美联社打造的一档经典栏目,讲述历史上的今天发生的一些标志性、重大或影响深远的事情,视频素材珍贵,是一档了解美国历史文化和学习英语的有趣的学习材料。
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"The main danger to stability is terror..." Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffers a significant stroke and lapses into a coma. It happens just month after Sharon ends Israeli's 38-year occupation of the Gaza Strip and both his own hard-line Likud party. Sharon's official powers are transferred to his dupty Ehud Olmert, who later succeeds him as Prime Minister. “稳定的最大危险是恐怖活动。”以色列总理沙龙突发中风,陷入昏迷。这发生在沙龙结束其38年加沙地带的执政以及他自己强硬派利库党几个月后。副总理奥尔默特代行总理职权,后来,奥尔默特成为了总理。
Louis Braille, the inventor of a reading system for the blind which bears his name to this day, is born in the town near Paris. 路易斯·布莱叶,以他名字命名的盲人阅读系统的发明者,在巴黎附近的一个小镇出生了。
"The one thing you'll get from Governor Jesse Ventura, you may not always wanna hear it. But you will get honesty." Former pro wrestler Jesse, "The Body" Ventura vows to be a straight talker after he is sworn in as the governor of Minnesota.
“你能从州长杰西·文图拉身上学到的一件事,你可能并不想听到这句话。但是你会诚实。” 在前职业摔跤手杰西·文图拉宣誓就任明尼苏达州长后,他就说自己是一个直言不讳的人。(他在担任职业摔角手时,以筋肉人,杰西·温图拉【Jesse "The Body" Ventura】的艺名为人所熟知。)
"Memory, turn your face to the moonlight. Let..." Poet, T.S. Eliot whose work inspired and supplied most of the worlds for the musical "Cats" years later, dies in London at age 76. “记忆,把脸转向月光,让……” 诗人T.S.艾略特于伦敦逝世,享年76。他的作品在多年后给音乐剧《猫》以灵感并提供了多种不同的世界。