历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-08-31

 August 31, 1997A tragedy that sparks mass public grief around the world. Britain’s Princess Diana is killed in a car crash in Paris. She was 36 years old. Also killed in the crash, Dodi Al Fayed, Diana’s boyfriend and the car’s driver Henri Paul, bodyguard¹ Trevor Rees Jones badly injured in the crash is the only survivor².

1980In Poland the Solidarity³ Labor⁴ Movement is born under an agreement ending a shipyard strike. Co-founded by Lech Walesa, it’s the first free-trade union behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. During the next decade, Solidarity plays a key part in bringing down Communism in Eastern Europe. 1888Mary Ann Nichols considered the first victim of Jack⁵ the Ripper is found murdered in London's East End. At least 5 women, all of them prostitutes are brutally⁶ slain⁷ by the ripper. The murders and the killer’s true identity remain unsolved to this day.

1969Rocky Marciano, the retired⁸ heavyweight boxing champ dies in a light plane crash in Iowa a day before what would've been his 46th birthday.

And 1945Virtuoso violinist Itzhak Perlman is born in Tel Aviv in what is now Israel.

Also that same year"My brown eyed girl, you are my brown eyed girl."Singer and songwriter Van Morrison is born in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Today in History, August 31st, Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.

1 bodyguard   

n.护卫，保镖

参考例句：

• She has to have an armed bodyguard wherever she goes.她不管到哪儿都得有带武器的保镖跟从。
• The big guy standing at his side may be his bodyguard.站在他身旁的那个大个子可能是他的保镖。

2 survivor   

n.生存者，残存者，幸存者

参考例句：

• The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
• There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。

3 solidarity   

n.团结；休戚相关

参考例句：

• They must preserve their solidarity.他们必须维护他们的团结。
• The solidarity among China's various nationalities is as firm as a rock.中国各族人民之间的团结坚如磐石。

4 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

5 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

6 brutally   

adv.残忍地，野蛮地，冷酷无情地

参考例句：

• The uprising was brutally put down.起义被残酷地镇压下去了。
• A pro-democracy uprising was brutally suppressed.一场争取民主的起义被残酷镇压了。

7 slain   

杀死，宰杀，杀戮( slay的过去分词 )； (slay的过去分词)

参考例句：

• The soldiers slain in the battle were burried that night. 在那天夜晚埋葬了在战斗中牺牲了的战士。
• His boy was dead, slain by the hand of the false Amulius. 他的儿子被奸诈的阿缪利乌斯杀死了。

8 retired   

adj.隐退的，退休的，退役的

参考例句：

• The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
• Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。