历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-12-26

 December 26th, 2004A tsunami¹ kills more than 200,000 people, most of them in Southern Asia and leaves tens of thousands more missing. Among the countries’ hardest hit by the deadly waves , Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. The tsunami was triggered by the world’s most powerful earthquake in 40 years beneath the Indian Ocean.

1996Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder², Colorado. Ten years later, John Mark Karr is arrested in Thailand and called a suspect in JonBenét’s Murder. But DNA³ evidence later clears Karr and the slaying⁴ remains⁵ unsolved.

1941In Washington, Winston Churchill becomes the first British Prime Minister to address a joint⁶ meeting of the U.S. Congress. Churchill, whose mother was American, visited Capitol Hill just weeks after the U.S. entered World War II.

“If my father had been an American and my mother British, instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.”

1972Harry S. Truman, a 33rd President of the United States, dies at age 88.

2006Gerald Ford⁷, the 38th president of the United States, dies at age 93.

And 1944The first public performance of Tennessee Williams’s play, The Glass Menagerie, takes place in Chicago.

Today in History, December 26th, Ross Simpson, the Associated Press.

1 tsunami   

n.海啸

参考例句：

• Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
• Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。

2 boulder   

n.巨砾；卵石，圆石

参考例句：

• We all heaved together and removed the boulder.大家一齐用劲，把大石头搬开了。
• He stepped clear of the boulder.他从大石头后面走了出来。

3 DNA   

(缩)deoxyribonucleic acid 脱氧核糖核酸

参考例句：

• DNA is stored in the nucleus of a cell.脱氧核糖核酸储存于细胞的细胞核里。
• Gene mutations are alterations in the DNA code.基因突变是指DNA密码的改变。

4 slaying   

杀戮。

参考例句：

• The man mimed the slaying of an enemy. 此人比手划脚地表演砍死一个敌人的情况。
• He is suspected of having been an accomplice in the slaying,butthey can't pin it on him. 他有嫌疑曾参与该杀人案，但他们找不到证据来指控他。

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。

6 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

7 Ford   

n.浅滩，水浅可涉处；v.涉水，涉过

参考例句：

• They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上，所以我们只能涉水过河。
• If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪，必须极度小心。