历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-02-03

 February 3rd 1959 Three stars of early Rock and Roll and their pilot are killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. Buddy¹ Holly², Richie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson die while on a winter concert tour in the midwest.

1966 – The Soviet³ Union's probe – Luna 9 becomes the 1st man-made object to make a soft landing on the moon.

1995 – Eileen Collins becomes the 1st woman to pilot a space shuttle when Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off from Cape⁴ Canaveral, Flordia.

1894- Painter  Norman Rockwell  whose works offered a slice of Amerciana  during the middle 20th Century is born in New York City.

2003 – Record producer Phil Spector is arrested in the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson.

2006 – An Egyptian passenger ferry sinks in the Red Sea in bad weather.  More than 1,000 passengers are killed.

And in 1809 Composer Felix Mendelssohn, whose Wedding March remains⁵ popular to this day ,is born in Hamburg, Germany. Today in History, February 3rd, Bryant Thomas, the Associated Press.

1 buddy   

n.（美口）密友，伙伴

参考例句：

• Calm down,buddy.What's the trouble?压压气，老兄。有什么麻烦吗？
• Get out of my way,buddy!别挡道了，你这家伙！

2 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。

3 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。

4 cape   

n.海角，岬；披肩，短披风

参考例句：

• I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
• She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。

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。