历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-09-03

 September 3rd, 1939, 2 days after Adolf Hitler’s forces invade Poland, Britain and France declare war on Nazi¹ Germany. British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, whose policy of appeasing² Hitler was meant to prevent what becomes World War II. “Yet I cannot believe that there is anything more or anything different that I could have done and drought of being more successful.”

1783, official end of the American Revolution as the United States and Britain signed a Treaty of Paris. Under the treaty, Britain recognizes the independence of its 13 breakaway colonies.

2004, a 3-day-hostage siege at a school in Southern Russia ends in bloody³ chaos⁴. Chechen militants⁵ who seized the school in Beslan set off bombs while Russian commandoes stormed the building. More than 330 people, most of them children, are killed in the carnage.

1976, Viking II, the unmanned American space probe lands on Mars. The NASA craft takes the first close-up color photos of the red planet’s surface.

And 1970, “ I wanna say this, but it’s a great game-the game of great lessons.” In Washington, NFL holly⁶ fame Coach Vincent Lombardi, dies of cancer. Lombardi, who led the Green Bay Packers to win the first two Super Bowls, was 57 years old.

Today in History, September 3rd. Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.

1 Nazi   

n.纳粹分子，adj.纳粹党的，纳粹的

参考例句：

• They declare the Nazi regime overthrown and sue for peace.他们宣布纳粹政权已被推翻，并出面求和。
• Nazi closes those war criminals inside their concentration camp.纳粹把那些战犯关在他们的集中营里。

2 appeasing   

安抚，抚慰( appease的现在分词 )； 绥靖（满足另一国的要求以避免战争）

参考例句：

• Mr. Chamberlain had cherished the hope of appeasing and reforming him and leading him to grace. 张伯伦先生则满心想安抚他，感化他，教他温文知礼。
• A pleasing preacher is too often an appeasing preacher. 一昧讨好的传道人通常是姑息妥协的传道人。

3 bloody   

adj.非常的的；流血的；残忍的；adv.很；vt.血染

参考例句：

• He got a bloody nose in the fight.他在打斗中被打得鼻子流血。
• He is a bloody fool.他是一个十足的笨蛋。

4 chaos   

n.混乱，无秩序

参考例句：

• After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后，城市一片混乱。
• The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。

5 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

6 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。