历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-02-03

 February 3rd 1959"If the Bible Tells You So Do you believe in rock 'n roll Can music save your mortal soul And can you teach me how to dance real slow Well, I know that you're in love with him 'Cause I saw you dancin' in the gym ” Three stars of early rock and roll and their pilot are killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, lowa.

Buddy¹ Holly², Ritchie Valens, and J.P. “the Big Bopper” Richardson die while on a winter concert tour in the Midwest. 1966 The Soviet³ Union’s probe Luna IX becomes the first man-made object to make a soft landing on the moon. 1995Eileen Collins becomes the first women to pilot the space shuttle, when space shuttle Discovery blasts off from Cape⁴ Canaveral, Florida. 1894Painter Norman Rockwell, whose works offered a slice of Americana during the middle 20th Century, is born in New York City.

2003Record producer Phil Spector is arrested in the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson.

2006An Egyptian passenger ferry sinks in the Red Sea in bad weather. More than 1,000 passengers are killed. And in 1809Composer Felix Mendelssohn, whose Wedding March remains⁵ popular to this day, is born in Hamburg, Germany. Today in History, February 3rd, Bryant Thomas, the Associated Press.

1 buddy   

n.（美口）密友，伙伴

参考例句：

• Calm down,buddy.What's the trouble?压压气，老兄。有什么麻烦吗？
• Get out of my way,buddy!别挡道了，你这家伙！

2 holly   

n.[植]冬青属灌木

参考例句：

• I recently acquired some wood from a holly tree.最近我从一棵冬青树上弄了些木料。
• People often decorate their houses with holly at Christmas.人们总是在圣诞节时用冬青来装饰房屋。

3 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。

4 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。

5 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。