历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-01-17

 January 17th, 1706. Benjamin Franklin, author, publisher, inventor and one of America's most famous Founding Fathers, is born in Boston. 1945  in the final month of World War Ⅱin Europe,Soviet and Polish forces liberate¹ Poland's capital Warsaw from Naze occupation.

1961 just days before leaving office, President Dwight Eisenhower offers a Cold War era warning for Americans in his farewell address:"In the councils of governmet,we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influnence,whether sought or unsought,by the military-industrial complex."1995, in Japan, an earthquake,magnitude 7.2, devastates² the city of Kobe, killing³ more than 6000 people.

1899  Al Capone is born in Brooklyn, New York, but it is in Chicago where the gangster⁴ called "Scarface"leaves his most notorious mark.

And 1942, "I'm going to float like a butterfly and sting like a bee,his hands can't hit what his eyes can't see." Muhammad Ali,the former heavyweight boxing champion dubbed⁵ himself"the Greatest",is born in Louisville,Kentucky.

Today in History,January 17th,Camille Bohannon,the Associated Press.

1 liberate   

v.解放，使获得自由，释出，放出；vt.解放，使获自由

参考例句：

• They did their best to liberate slaves.他们尽最大能力去解放奴隶。
• This will liberate him from economic worry.这将消除他经济上的忧虑。

2 devastates   

v.彻底破坏( devastate的第三人称单数 )；摧毁；毁灭；在感情上（精神上、财务上等）压垮

参考例句：

• Strip mining devastates whole regions, leaving bare and useless ground. 露天矿产毁坏全部区域，离开赤裸和无用的地面。 来自互联网
• Prostitution is a profession that devastates the lives of young women. 雏妓这个职业是对女孩子极度的摧残。 来自互联网

3 killing   

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。

4 gangster   

n.匪徒，歹徒，暴徒

参考例句：

• The gangster's friends bought off the police witness.那匪徒的朋友买通了警察方面的证人。
• He is obviously a gangster,but he pretends to be a saint.分明是强盗，却要装圣贤。

5 dubbed   

v.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 )；把…称为；配音；复制

参考例句：

• Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
• Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的？ 来自《简明英汉词典》