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历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-09-10

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 September 10th, 1989A sign of communism facing its collapse1 in Eastern Europe, Hungary allows about 7,000 refugees from communist East Germany to leave for non-communist West Germany. The move effectively bypasses the Berlin Wall, an iconic symbol of the Cold War, which falls just months later.

1935“We find our houses empty and our people hungry, many of them half-clothed and many of them not clothed at all.” Louisiana’s US Senator Huey Long, the Depression-era populist known as the “Kingfish”, dies two days after he is shot in Baton2 Rouge3. Long’s bodyguards4 gun down his assailant Carl Weiss immediately after he opened fire on the Senator at Louisiana State Capitol.
1846Elias Howe receives a patent for his sewing machine, the device which brings clothing into the modern age.
1955Gunsmoke premieres on TV, on CBS just a few years after the popular Western debuts5 on radio. The TV series starring James Arness and Marshal Matt Dillon runs for the next 20 years.
And 1945“Feliz Navidad. Feliz Navidad.” Christmas in September? Not quite. Singer and guitarist, Jose Feliciano, whose song “Feliz Navidad” is a Christmas classic, is born in Puerto Rico.
Today in History, September 10th, Ed Donahue, the Associated Press.

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1 collapse aWvyE     
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。
2 baton 5Quyw     
n.乐队用指挥杖
参考例句：
  • With the baton the conductor was beating time.乐队指挥用指挥棒打拍子。
  • The conductor waved his baton,and the band started up.指挥挥动指挥棒，乐队开始演奏起来。
3 rouge nX7xI     
n.胭脂，口红唇膏；v.(在…上)擦口红
参考例句：
  • Women put rouge on their cheeks to make their faces pretty.女人往面颊上涂胭脂，使脸更漂亮。
  • She didn't need any powder or lip rouge to make her pretty.她天生漂亮，不需要任何脂粉唇膏打扮自己。
4 bodyguards 3821fc3f6fca49a9cdaf6dca498d42dc     
n.保镖，卫士，警卫员( bodyguard的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • Brooks came to Jim's office accompanied—like always—by his two bodyguards. 和往常一样，在两名保镖的陪同下，布鲁克斯去吉姆的办公室。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Three of his bodyguards were injured in the attack. 在这次袭击事件中，他有3名保镖受了伤。 来自辞典例句
5 debuts ad4f62355efee940a2b4c02dbdd70570     
演员首次演出( debut的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • He never really debuts the idea of taking money from his parents any longer. 他从此就再也没有认真起过向父母要钱的念头。
  • This young soprano debuts next month at the metropolitan opera. 这位年轻的女高音歌唱家下个月将在纽约大都会歌剧院举行首演。

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