Henry went out to the front of the apartment building and turned off the main water valve. No one was home in the building except Stanley, so Henry didnt have to warn the neighbors about the shutoff. Back in the bathroom, Henry flushed the toilet. Th

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Stanley had just finished brushing his teeth. He noticed water flowing into the toilet bowl. That's strange, he thought. The water continued to seep into the bowl. Stanley lifted the toilet tank top. The tank was half full, but the water was slowly r

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Broadcast: May 12, 2003 By Jill Moss This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Each year, millions of people in Bangladesh drink ground water that has been polluted by naturally high levels

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W.C.一词是 water-closet 的缩写,其中closet一字本作小室解。 《二十世纪辞典》对water-closet的解释是:一间用作室的小室,排出物是用水冲走的。W.C.的意思易明,所以曾被广泛采用。但是由于人人

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The Nautilus is made up of two hulls, one inside the other; between them, joining them together, are iron T-bars that give this ship the utmost rigidity. 诺第留斯号由双层船壳造成, 一层是内壳,另一层是外壳,两壳之间,用许

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That's all? 仅仅这个数目吗? That's all, Professor Aronnax, and the calculation is easy to check. 仅仅这个数目,阿龙纳斯先生。并且,很容易用计算来证实。 Now then, I have supplementary ballast tanks capable of shippi

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