Gas Shortages Test Patience of Motorists Following Sandy A New York City policeman directs a motorist to the end the line at a gas station in Brooklyn. And quite a line it is. Drivers here are waiting five hours to get to the head of it. Police are o

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到目前为止Michael打通了到达医务室的地下管道。但是逃跑计划是所有越狱的人将首先在储藏室会合,然后临时挖出一条连接通往医务室管道的斜井。一旦进入医务室就可以逃出监狱。但是为了创造会合的条件,必须让监狱方面认为有修缮储藏室的必要,从而Michael和同伙可以被

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By Bill Gasperini Sakhalin, Russia 20 October 2006 A giant energy project on Russia's remote Sakhalin Island has recently come under scrutiny because of environmental concerns. A foreign run consortium has long been building parallel gas and oil pip

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The Charcoal-Burner and the FullerA CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live with him, saying that they should be far better neighbors and that their housekeeping exp

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to put on the back burner to drag one's feet 我们经常说做事要看轻重缓急,有的时候不得不把正在做的事或计划要做的事先搁置一边。美国人把这叫做:to put on t

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美国总统大选终于尘埃落定,在这场激烈的角逐中,布什连任,克里落败,媒体报道铺天盖地--这真是一场barnburner。 Barnburner表示“竞争激烈、令人兴奋

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