音标:[bɪˈkwests] ;
n. 遗赠( bequest的复数形式 ); 遗产, 遗赠物
n. (law) a gift of personal property by will

Making a Will Last week, I got a wake-up call. One of my oldest friends from high school died suddenly in an accident, leaving no will. With no estate planning at all, his assets went into probate and his dependents were left in limbo. My friend was

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Last week, I got a wake-up call. One of my oldest friends from high school died suddenly in an accident, leaving no will. With no estate planning at all, his assets went into probate and his dependents were left in limbo. My friend was a young man, t

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They lived the much easier life of working in the house. 她们在房子里工作, They were the ones most likely to be freed. 享受安逸的生活。 So many mulatto mistresses were left substantial fortunes in the wills of white property owners 她们

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It was time for the annual blood drive. He told his girlfriend, Im going to give blood tomorrow. She said, Dont do that. You could get a disease. He asked, I could get a disease? How could I get a disease? She said, You never know. What if a nurse tr

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Item Nine. Vocabulary. towering, perish, Sumatra, Aceh. More than 160,000 people died or disappeared in northern Sumatra on December 26th 2004, when towering waves battered the coast. Tens of thousands more perished in a dozen countries surrounding t

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It was time for the annual blood drive. He told his girlfriend, I'm going to give blood tomorrow. She said, Don't do that. You could get a disease. He asked, I could get a disease? How could I get a disease? She said, You never know. What if a nurse

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A Vermont man who during his lifetime foraged for wood and held down jobs as a janitor and at a filling station, has left his local hospital and library $6million (?3.95 million). 美国佛蒙特州一位老人的一生非常普通,曾在加油站工

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今天我们要学的词是 noteworthy. Noteworthy意思是值得注意的,值得引起重视的。雅虎公司宣布,年仅37岁的迈耶将担任雅虎公司首席执行官。Her selection is noteworthy both because she is one of only a few wom

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Yet, there is hope. One day a man told me, 然而,他们仍然是有一丝希望的。一天,一个阿富汗人告诉我, My future does not look brilliant, but I want to have a brilliant future for my son. 我的前途并不光明,但是我希

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above-tree-line
adaptation of methods
advanced systems inc.
alanah
aporhyolite
Arabist
backbone motion
base surface
bigamies
Bovini
calliostoma shinagawaense
captaines
carcelia (carceliella) aberrans
chronemically
colour induction
complete miscibility
concubinize
corporate-banking
corycidine
deetiolation
deferred payment transactions
dehong dais
disseverment
dissolve control unit
dorsal tarsometatarsal ligaments
Dracontium
einbender
electric chuck
emulsion opal glass
excrementize
executive produces
extended object
fertile period
filtrate reducer for cement slurry
garrison belt
gastroduodenoscopy
getterupper
gialanella
glacial stagnation
guanidinium isothiocyanate
handweaving
harmonic conjugate
high speed conveyer
Holmes Stewart phenomenon
host-to-IMP control information
houres
iatrogenic immunosuppression
intermolecular respiration
interrupt priority chip
JCSM
kvarner (kvarnerski zaljev)
lateral-thrust unit
lens blooming
liker
logical unit number
macrotone
macrovoid
magnification factor meter
maloofs
marginal syncytium
maximum picture width
metahumans
monitor action routine
moorsom
nocireceptor
non-coherent IR receiver
nonenolizable
OneID
Paroho
patented medicine
paxite
propose a motion
quick acting brake
reclaimer
Reform Club
retrospective searching
rotor wake
salt wind
samairum
Scrophularia fargesii
see sb out
self-crossed
serpent-like
single operator arc welding machine
skilless
solid-cored carbon
spoilage account
stebbings
stereogastrula
stereozone
stokehold ladder
strained tomatoes
strip biopsy
Strobilanthes glandibracteata
Sulcus venae subclaviae
tetraommatus kwantaoshanensis
Thalamosensory
thromboarteritis obliterans
totterers
wittichite (wittichenite)
work station