历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-12-03

 December 3rd, 1967Surgeons in Cape¹ Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard, perform the first human heart transplant, the patient Louis Washkansky lives 18 days with his new heart. 1984A horrific industrial accident kills thousands of people in Bhopal, India. That’s where a cloud of methyl isocyanate gas escapes from a pesticide² plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary. Investigators³ later conclude operating and safety procedures at the understaffed plant caused the disaster.

1964Aside the time’s over changing as police arrest some 800 students at the University of California at Berkeley. The day before students storm the campus administration building, staging a massive sit-in, Mario Savio was with the Student Free Speech Movement.

“So you got to make it stop, and you got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all! ” 1947In New York, actor Marlon Brando hits the big time as A Streetcar Named Desire opens on Broadway. Brando reprises his role as Stanley Kowalski in the movie version of the play a few years later.

And 1948Rock Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne was born. Today in History, December 3rd, Tom Belmar, the Associated Press.

1 cape   

n.海角，岬；披肩，短披风

参考例句：

• I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
• She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。

2 pesticide   

n.杀虫剂，农药

参考例句：

• The pesticide was spread over the vegetable plot.菜田里撒上了农药。
• This pesticide is diluted with water and applied directly to the fields.这种杀虫剂用水稀释后直接施用在田里。

3 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》