历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-07-16

 July 16th 1945The world's first test of the nuclear weapon as the United States explodes an atomic bomb in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Weeks later, the US drops atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing WWII to an end.

1973On Capitol Hill, former White House aide Alexander Butterfield reveals President Richard Nixon's secret taping system. The disclosure during Senate hearings probing the Watergate Scandal plays a pivotal role in Nixon's resignation the following year. 1999"I've fought the good fight, I've finished the course, I've kept the faith."John F Kennedy, Jr., son of America's 35th president dies when the plane he is piloting plunges¹ into the Atlantic Ocean. Kennedy's wife Carolyn and her sister Lauren Bessette are also on board and killed in the crash off Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

2004Martha Stewart is sentenced to 5 months in prison and 5 months of home confinement² by a federal judge in New York for lying about stock sale.

And 1969Apollo 11 lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the first manned mission to the surface of the moon.

Today in History, July 16th, Ross Simpson, the Associated Press.

1 plunges   

n.跳进，投入vt.使投入，使插入，使陷入vi.投入，跳进，陷入v.颠簸( plunge的第三人称单数 )；暴跌；骤降；突降

参考例句：

• Even before he plunges into his program, he has his audience in his pocket. 他的节目甚至还没有出场，就已控制住了观众。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• 'Monseigneur, he precipitated himself over the hill-side, head first, as a person plunges into the river.' “大人，他头冲下跳下山坡去了，像往河里跳一样。” 来自英汉文学 - 双城记

2 confinement   

n.幽禁，拘留，监禁；分娩；限制，局限

参考例句：

• He spent eleven years in solitary confinement.他度过了11年的单独监禁。
• The date for my wife's confinement was approaching closer and closer.妻子分娩的日子越来越近了。