音标:[,hemә,dainә'mɔmitә] ;
血压计
n. An instrument by which the pressure of the blood
in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will
raise a column of mercury; -- called also a haemomanometer.

A: Whoa, I never saw a meter like this before; how do you use it? B: It's simple, once you do it a few times. Do you know how the old one worked? A: I never used a parking meter before. B: So we start out by deciding whether you will use cash or a cr

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By Al Pessin Washington 24 February 2006 There has been renewed controversy during the past week about conditions at the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay. A panel of United Nations exp

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第26期:Something Wrong with the Meter Y:What's the fare,please? Y:请问车费是多少呢? X:Twenty dollars and sixty cents. X:20.60美元。 Y:What?You're overcharging me! Y:什么?你一定多收我的钱了! X:No way.Look.That's what the mete

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1. barometer /bəˈrɔmitə/ -- instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure as an aid in determining probable weather changes When the barometer indicates a rapid drop in air pressure, it means a storm is coming. 气压计显示出气压快速下降时

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Alien Asteroid Could Be Oldest Object in Our Solar System Astronomers have been closely watching an object that travels in an orbit around our sun. Astronomers say this object -- an asteroid -- circles the sun in the same orbital path as the planet J

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By Al Pessin Guantanamo 01 February 2006 At the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba nearly 500 detainees, most of them captured during the Afghanistan war, await release or trial. M

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By Stephanie Ho Washington 26 March 2007 An Australian detainee held by U.S. authorities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is to be the first so-called enemy combatant tried under a new military commission procedure that was approved by the U.S. Congress last

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A decades-old U.S. government program to send future leaders from foreign countries to the United States is gaining new attention - particularly in France, where it is targeting minorities, including Muslims, and aims to present a more accurate imag

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.S. military judges in Guantanamo acted quickly Wednesday morning to suspend two of the 21 terrorism trials now in progress, based on a request from the Obama administration. Judges in the other trials are expected to do the same. Image reviewed by

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U.S. President Barack Obama is seeking to suspend military trials for terror suspects at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. President Barack Obama Late on Tuesday as party-goers were leaving the festive inaugural balls, President Obam

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In a major reversal of Bush administration policies, President Barack Obama has ordered the shutdown of the U.S. terror detention facility at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. Mr. Obama has also ordered a review of military trials for terror suspects a

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Terror suspect Binyam Mohamed, who was a British resident, has returned to the United Kingdom after being released from Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, where he had been held by U.S. military authorities for more than four years. Mohamed says he went

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Senior European Union officials head to Washington on Monday for a two-day trip to gain more information about Guantanamo inmates it may be asked to take in after the United States closes the detention camp in Cuba. Camp Delta Cell Block for uncoope

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英语新词:这些meter后缀单词 你理解对了么? anemometer n. 风力计,[气象] 风速计。 audiometer n. [耳鼻喉] 听度计,听力表;测听计;音响测定器。 barometer n. [气象] 气压计;晴雨表;显示变化的事物

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By Al Pessin Guantanamo 07 February 2006 According to the U.S. military the number of hunger strikers among detainees at the Guantanamo detention facility has fallen to just four, from a high of 84 in

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 04 June 2007 A U.S. military judge has dismissed charges against a detainee at the Guantanamo detention center, based on a technical issue that could affect all the current and potential charges against detainees. The Defense De

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By Scott Stearns White House 14 June 2006 President Bush says he understands that the continuing detention of suspected terrorists at a U.S. military base in Cuba is hurting America's image abroad, but he says it is necessary to protect the nation.

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By Al Pessin Washington 19 May 2006 U.S. military guards at the Guantanamo detention center fired rubber shotgun pellets and used batons and shields to put down a small but violent riot by detainees T

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a FRO
acetylamine
at the same time
australian-born
automatism
baffle aerator
be lost to the world
bedding degree of bearing liner
berserkness
best-dresseds
brittle failure
bromo-cyanogen
cafe-goers
carburated
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chirotopic
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closing head (rivet point)
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complete variation of signed measure
continuous decatizing machine
cotton-white
cubiceps pauciradiatus
dextroversion
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esophaospasm
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flabbly
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Ilex pingheensis
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Nanakitata-gawa
nickeled steel plate
Nokere
normal-module
of one's own will
one-hour
operator of covariant differentiation
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oxaldiureide dioxime
Palin
particle size separator
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rashly launching new projects
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refundable taxes
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stenog
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thorpe
torpy
trace buffer
trochiter
two-direction self-aligning ball thrust bearing
unauthorisedly
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ureteral colic
vacuum drying
water terminal
xerophytes
Yoloxóchitl
z-star