历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-05-29

 May 29th1953, Climbers Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay  become the first to reach the top of the Mount Everest in Asia’s Himalaya. Years later, Hillary says he would not have made to the summit of the world’s highest peak without his partner. “Team work it was that got Tenzing and me to the top of the Everest.

1917, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country”. President John F. Kennedy is born in the Boston suburb of Brookline, Massachusetts. Kennedy inspires Americans with his charisma¹ basing cold war crisis from Cuba to Berlin before he was assassinated² in Dallas.

1765, a decade before the American Revolution, Patrick Henry denounces his Britain’s Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses. Responding to a cry of treason against British colonial rule, Henry declares: If this be treason, make the most of it!

And 1903, Thanks for the memory, of sentimental³ versecomedian Bob Hope who entertained the Americans and US troops worldwide for decades, is born in London.

Today In History, May 29th, Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press.

1 charisma   

n.(大众爱戴的)领袖气质，魅力

参考例句：

• He has enormous charisma. He is a giant of a man.他有超凡的个人魅力，是个伟人。
• I don't have the charisma to pull a crowd this size.我没有那么大的魅力，能吸引这么多人。

2 assassinated   

v.暗杀( assassinate的过去式和过去分词 )；中伤；诋毁；破坏

参考例句：

• The prime minister was assassinated by extremists. 首相遭极端分子暗杀。
• Then, just two days later, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. 跟着在两天以后，肯尼迪总统在达拉斯被人暗杀。 来自辞典例句

3 sentimental   

adj.多愁善感的，感伤的

参考例句：

• She's a sentimental woman who believes marriage comes by destiny.她是多愁善感的人，她相信姻缘命中注定。
• We were deeply touched by the sentimental movie.我们深深被那感伤的电影所感动。