音标:[,rɔtju'rjei] ;
n. 平民, 佃农
n. A person who is not of noble birth; specif., a freeman
who during the prevalence of feudalism held allodial land.

Todd: Oh, hey, Keri! You cook, right! You're a pretty good cook. Keri: I'm OK. Todd: OK. I want to make an omelet, so actually this is really silly, I've never made one before. How do you make an omelet? Keri: OK, Well, I can teach you how I make the

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Writers Kick-start Career with Print-on-Demand On a recent Sunday afternoon, there was a steady stream of visitors to a house in Alexandria, Virginia, where John Saul signed copies of his first published book, Candle in the Window. It is a collection

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Newspaper Carrier Day is an important day to celebrate one of societys forgotten workers the newspaper carrier. Every day, thousands of newspaper girls and boys get up early and carry heavy bags of newspapers around the streets. They deliver our news

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By Nico Colombant Port Harcourt, Nigeria 29 May 2007 Many Nigerians hope their new president, Umaru Yar'Adua, will urgently address the issue of gasoline scarcity after he is sworn in today. Even though Nigeria is Africa's biggest oil producer, mass

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Like these sea fans, the last frontier of life on the reef. The divers reach their target-- a massive ridge, 190 feet down. Here, the air they are breathing is under pressure, squeezed down so that there's more gas in every lungful. They have to hope

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The reef was left high and dry, exposed to air and harsh sun. A trillion tiny creatures died in their own homes. For the coral, it was an apocalypse. When the ice age ended, the sea came back and submerged the dead reef. But what brought it back to l

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For thousands of years, this powerful current has regenerated the reef. But it can not repair everything. Beneath the waves lie deeper scarsthe largest coral reef on Earth is home to a dazzling diversity of marine species, some found nowhere else on

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Here it is. Got it, I think. A spring. And whats actually coming out of this is fresh water. You can drink. You see this stuff bubbling out? This is what the traditional owners of this place call 'buiur bindi''fresh water in the ocean'. The locals ca

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So we're looking at the core of the volcano which is referred to as Mount Warning. That peak extends up to just a little over 1, 1 00 meters. But when it was active, the peak of this volcano was 6, 000 feet high. Millions of years of wind and weather

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All lava has a chemical signature that tells scientists where it came from and when it was erupting. The higher up the old volcano, the more pristine the rocks will be. They are the last remaining evidence of the eruption which created this volcano m

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Today, the elements that support the reef are in fine balance--sun, wind and waves. But it doesn't take much to tip the balance, plummeting this huge reef into disaster. It might happen sonner than you think. Eighteen million years ago, a series of r

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The pearl luggers then turned their attention to something else, a much bigger target. The reef has always provided a great haven for large animals, like turtles who nest on the coral piece. Whole populations of turtles were brought to the verge of e

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Eighteen million years ago, it arrived in warm, tropical waters. Only then could the world's greatest reef be born. Australia's epic journey may have created perfect conditions for coral, but it also put it in the line of fire of the most powerful st

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Where the forces of nature meet? In a hidden world, a tropical miracle. At this moment, evolution is building a living colossus, a giant built by nature's tiniest creature, a model of reincarnation, a survivor born from disasterthe Great Barrier Reef

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Where every plant and animal helps sustain the whole.The waste from parrot fish cements the reef. Stinging anemones provide a haven to the vulnerable. Even killers play their part, preventing a population explosion that would destroy this fragile eco

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As a polyp grows, it puts up a wall of limestone around itself. And then it multiplies. Each polyp can produce thousands of offspring, which all work together to build a living fortress-- a coral reef. After just a few years, a single piece of coral

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Inside the flesh of these tiny animals are microscopic plants called algae, but these aren't parasites. None of this would be here without them. Wachenfeld: When the algae photosynthesize, they take energy from sunlight and carbon dioxide, then make

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shows it really quite well. In order to bring back a piece of this mystery, his team of divers will be risking their lives. Diving problems, you got currents, tides, waves. We havent been here before. We haven't been this deep, though. One of those c

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By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 14 June 2007 The human rights group Amnesty International has called for the dismantling of the Israeli security barrier in the West Bank. The London-based group says the barrier has had a disastrous impact on the lives of Pal

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今天我们要学的词是barrier。 Barrier是障碍的意思。Language barrier, 是语言障碍。Trade barrier, 是贸易壁垒。The lack of funding was the biggest barrier to the road improvement, 意思是道路改善的最大障碍是缺少资

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A Fool And His Money Are Easily Parted
aedeaguss
affright
albuminimeter
alternate derivative
annual output per vehicle tonnage capacity
anthrax bacilluss
apographic
aster pattern
auto swap-off
beeyotch
biennales
black mallees
blast drier
bonus and premium plan
botto
caputoes
check with construction
chromatophil(e)
cleavable
Code stamps
colour cast
completion of jobs
customer design
cytoscopy
dee (in cyclotron)
degree of dominance
differential acting hammer
drum out of
dry walls
dual compressor
dual raster television system
economic policy
electricology
euglenozoans
folk-medicine
Franconian
free radical substitution
friants
gasoline intercepter
gennadies
genus Buteo
geographic(al) environment
gynecologic operating instruments
hand-picked reject
heated plasma
horizontal flexure
human-based computing
hygroscopicity
ice particles
ilei verum diverticula
imburden
import licensing system
insured's employer's name and id
Internet Fibre Channel Protocol
Kekri
linish
man-carryings
monophrasis
neogenic
NLP (nonlinear programming)
non-judgmental
nonprogrammed decisions
one-pass roll
outstanding negotiable certificate of deposit
over-discharge
pembo
pemptarchie
per face
permanent light source
personalities
picketings
point of zero velocity
Polack
pussywhipping
remelt
repocketing
reservation value
right of management
rive off
Rodgersia aesculifolia
roof contour
self-proving affidavit
selfless
sliding tong
soppiest
strain test
stunt program
subdivision Cycadophyta
suction plate
syphilitic therapeutics
tape loop
temples or shrines forest
temporal power
the Group of Eight
tree language
unimetallic strip thermal relay
waterfowls
wave-vector filtering
well-posedness
wharfe r.
zinc sulfoichthyolate