历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-04-25

 April 25th, 1874Radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi is born in Bologna, Italy. “In spite of the great distance bodily separating us, you hear my voice as clearly and distinctly as I think you should.”

1507,America gets its name, nearly fifteen years after Christopher Columbus' 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.

1945,During WWII, American and Soviet¹ troops in Europe meet on the Elbe River. It's a sign that the collapse² of Nazi³ Germany and the end of the war in Europe are near.

1990,“Ah, first of NASA's great observatories⁴ is now on station at 330 nautical⁵ miles above the earth.” Space Shuttle Discovery deploys⁶ the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit around the Earth.

And 1918,“A-tisket A-tasket A brown and yellow basket I send a letter.” Ella Fitzgerald, one of the great jazz singers of the 20th Century, is born in Newport News, Virginia.

Today in History, April 25th, Sandy Kozel, 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 observatories   

n.天文台，气象台( observatory的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• John Heilbron, The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories, 3-23. 约翰．海耳布隆，《教会里的太阳：教堂即太阳观测台》，第3-23页。 来自互联网
• Meteorologists use satellites, land observatories and historical data to provide information about the weather. 气象学家使用卫星、上天文台和历史资料来提供有关天气的信息。 来自互联网

5 nautical   

adj.海上的，航海的，船员的

参考例句：

• A nautical mile is 1,852 meters.一海里等于1852米。
• It is 206 nautical miles from our present location.距离我们现在的位置有206海里。

6 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。