历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-04-25

 April 25th, 1874.

Radio pioneer Marconi is born in Bologna, Italy.

1507.

Amercia gets its name nearly 15 years after Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the New World.A German cartographer first uses the term on a world map to refer to the huge land mass in the western hemisphere, the name is in honor of Amerigo Vespucci,the Italian navigator.

1945During World War Two,American and Soviet¹ troops in Europe meet on the Elbe river.It's a sign of the collapse² of Nazi³ Germany and the end of the war in Europe are near.

1990Space shuttle Discovery deploys⁴ the Hubble Space Telescope into the orbit around the earth.

And 1918Ella Fitzgerald, one of the greatest Jazz singers of the 20th century, is born in Newport News, Virginia.

Today in Hsitory, April 25th, Sandy Cozel, the Associated Press.

1 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。

2 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

3 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。

4 deploys   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的第三人称单数 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• It then deploys "decoy" programs designed to attract the virus. 然后，它释放“诱饵”去吸引病毒。
• But when that doesn't work, he deploys his secret defense mechanism. 但没有效果，它要施展绝密自卫武器了。