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In countries around the world, hundreds of thousands of poor people face daily hazards to earn meager livings by scavenging for recyclable goods. In Cambodia, hundreds of scavenger families find their lives changing - they will lose their homes and

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(十月)

Negotiators at the climate summit in Copenhagen last month failed to agree on a new climate change treaty to replace the current Kyoto Protocol before it expires in 2012. Jonathan Lash is president of World Resources Institute, an environmental polic

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(一月)

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: Anu Garg, creator of the A.Word.A.Day Web site and author of a new book called Another Word A Day: An All-New Romp Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English

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By Chris Simkins Washington 16 April 2008 Millions of Americans could lose their homes this year and next as the rate of foreclosures across the United States rises to the highest in decades. The foreclosure crisis has worsened despite ongoing effort

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2008年(四月)

今天我们要讲的习惯用语里都有一个主要的单词:scratch。很多人都知道scratch这个词的意思是抓、或者刨刮表面。你要是给蚊子叮了一口,你就会这样做:scratch your skin with your fingernails。就是你

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By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 17 October 2007 A group concerned with human rights in Ethiopia's eastern Ogaden region says refugees fleeing to neighboring Somalia are being rounded up by Somali authorities and handed over to Ethiopian troop

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学英语单词
-piled
acemi
Albertisia
alienated man
alterables
aquaplanet
auctioneered
autesiodorum (auxerre)
axle assembling stand
basal anal cell
Baud rate generator
be apparent to
boone
bow rail
Cancri
chaitoregma aderuensis
chekhov
class y insulation
cleanliest
clock generator
compus
consensus report
control of on-scene communications
crankcase cam gear bushing
cycloaddition polymerization
damaged material
dermatitis congelationis
detainment
diluent expectorant
dimethylsulphoxide
dislocation of the economy
dorsoanterior
Dynbaer
early-entry
endurance road testing
expansion port
Finmins
flop over
follow-up control (tracking control)
frequency-doubled
fuel evaporation rate
fumaric hydrogenase
Geoff Hurst
Goddard Space Flight Center
GOPer
graminoids
holly fern
hot desker
hypolymnions
interconnects
iodideprocess
kabalas
make a push to do something
manual looping
men-of-war
nephridium
neutron accident dosimetry
nibbana
Nikica
nodose hair
nonbinomial
North Branch
occipitalization
ogre-faced spider
oral sepsis
palladium bearing metal
parchmenty
philippine folk dance society
pigment cells
porphyries
propogating
punnetts
puozzolana
randomized rounding
reeled off
resuspends
rough ground for nailing skirtings
scale ... down
seed board
serologic test
sex-war
signal modulation
skidaddle
skin-softening
some ... or other
spin quantum number
SPTI
steering fin
steve martins
stopped down
swelling amount
szendrey
thickness error
transaction control system
transistorized impulse-type control
undecylic alcohol
UTLC
variable voltage electric drive
vasovagol syncope
vertical closure
withaniol
xanthamides