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Will the reader please to cast his eye over the following verses , and see if he can discover anything harmful in them? Conductor, when you receive a fare,Punch in the presence of the passenjare! A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare,A buff trip sl

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03 The Ransom of Red Chief We were down South, in Alabama-Bill Driscoll and myself - when this kidnapping idea struck us. We selected for our victim the only child of a 1)prominent citizen named Ebenezer Dorset. The kid was a boy of ten, with 2)bas-

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Its 50-foot high and can move up to 2 miles an hour. This giant spider must be many peoples worst nightmare. And its on the loose at Liverpool for the next three days. La Princess's built as the largest piece of street theater ever staged in the UK.

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Automobiles It is impossible to say that any one man invented the automobile. Many individuals living and working in different countries and at different times contributed to its development. Many of the discoveries that went into the creation of the

98.Back Up Two Miles

A farmer and his son, traveling by horse and buggy up a narrow lane, met a motorist going the other way. There was no room to pass for two miles in either direction. The motorist, in hurry, honked his

美联社新闻一分钟 2006-10-07

1. A plant explosion caused the evacuation of some 17,000 people near Raleigh, North Carolina Friday. Officials say they warned of a potential disaster 6 months ago. 2. Horse-drawn buggies took mourne

每日商务英语 第84期:现金紧张的

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与美国小学生一起学英文第11册 第12期:铁

Iron 铁 Iron is a very important element in our lives. 铁是我们的生活中非常重要元素。 It is a kind of metal. 它是一种金属。 Thousands of years ago, people with iron swords and armor were the most powerful people. 几千年前，拥

你知道这些horse相关的短语吗？

1. a horse pill 大药丸，大型丸剂 This is not a horse pill. This is your pain pill which doctor prescribed. 这不是大药片。这就是医生给你开的止疼药。 2. a horse laugh 狂笑，讥笑，不信任的笑 At the end of the joke

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Todd: Jonathan we are talking about conspiracy theories. What about the one where the sound? That when the rocket lands, they have actually audio of the rocket landing and you can't hear the rocket engine, and the rocket engine should be making a rea

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歌词如下： What can you do, Punchinello, funny fellow? What can you do, Punchinello, funny you? We can do it, too, Punchinello, funny fellow, We can do it, too, Punchinello, funny you! You choose one of us, Punchinello, funny fellow, You choose

宝宝坐童车和背对父母，有碍身心发育

上周五公布的一项研究表明，坐童车背对父母的宝宝今后可能会出现情感和语言方面的长期障碍。 The research, believed to be the first of its kind, found that children who were not facing the person that pushed them

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A mother is an extraordinary thing. Take the woman whose toddler was caught on CCTV at Goodge Street Tube station being sucked onto the live tracks by a freak gust of wind.Without a moments hesitation, she flings herself off the platform and hoiks th

Qatari wins Day 6 auto race in Dakar Rally

SANTIAGO, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Qatari auto racer Prince Nasser Al Attiyah won Day 6 of the legendary Dakar Rally Thursday, behind the wheel of a Buggy. Al Attiyah won the sixth stage of the rugged off-road race, between the Chilean cities of Arica and

与“马”有关的短语

1. a horse pill 大药丸，大型丸剂 This is not a horse pill. This is your pain pill which doctor prescribed. 这不是大药片。这就是医生给你开的止疼药。 2. a horse laugh 狂笑，讥笑，不信任的笑 At the end of the joke

美国俚语: buggy whip 表示"老式的,过时的"

今天要学的习惯用语是：buggy whip。 buggy是小型的轻便马车。这种马车的挡泥板上有插口， 用来插上鞭子。这就是当年的buggy whip。 buggy whip属于悠久的过去年代，人们不用buggy whip已经有好多好

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Richard and I sat on my porch, looking out over the dunes to the Gulf. The smoke from his cigar drifted mellowly in the air, keeping the mosquitoes at a safe distance. The water was a cool aqua, the sky a deeper, truer blue. It was a pleasant combina

英语博客:Goodbye to old toys

As I was walking back to my house from the mail box the other day, I looked at our entryway and realised that it looked like a junk yard. There were about four, old, plastic vehicles that our children don't use anymore, just sitting on the driveway l

美国习惯用语:371 a horse of a different color

我们上次讲了几个包括horse这个词的习惯用语。尽管如今马匹的重要性已经大大不如十九世纪的年代，但是马匹在历史长途上的足迹却至今还印证在语言里，所以由horse组成的习惯用语可真不少

学个词Learn a Word 第656期 One-two punch

今天我们要学的词是one-two punch。 One-two punch, 是从拳击运动来的，意思是左右开攻，连续猛击。 Snow storms and freezing cold delivered a one-two punch to the North, 北部地区受到了暴风雪和冰冻天气的连续打