音标:[pi'kiә(r)] ;
vi.<古>侦察, 搜索
v. i. To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish
in advance of an army. See Picaroon.

In testimony to Congress, the U.S. treasury chief and central bank chairman have strongly defended their management of the $700 billion financial and credit market rescue program. VOA's Dan Robinson reports from Capitol Hill, where the officials fac

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Chinese Farmer Bikes to Olympic Games Chen Guanming says he loves being in London for the Olympics - and thats a good thing since it took him two years to get here. He road across 16 countries on this pedicab, all the way from his home in eastern Chi

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Cheaper, Safer Pill Targets Tropical Parasite Scientists have developed a new version of a drug used to treat leishmaniasis. The new formulation may help better battle this tropical parasitic disease. Leishmaniasis is transmitted by the bite of certa

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By Daniel Schearf Beijing 10 June 2008 China has said a massive lake formed by China's Sichuan earthquake is halfway drained and now poses less of a threat. China says it has won a decisive victory in its battle to drain the lake; drainage efforts b

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Chinese soldiers used anti-tank weapons to blast away rocks and mud, holding back waters in an earthquake-formed lake that threatens more than 1 million people living downstream. Soldiers fired at rocks to dislodge enough debris to speed the drainage

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歌词: Almost heaven, west virginia Blue ridge mountains, shenandoah river Life is old there, older than the trees Younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze Country roads, take me home To the place, I be-long West virginia, mountain momma Tak

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By Paige Kollock Washington, DC 15 February 2006 watch Athlete Diabetes report According to the World Health Organization, diabetes is the world's fifth most deadly medical condition. VOA's Paige Koll

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Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke says the U.S. economy is facing numerous difficulties amid a continuing downturn in housing, high oil prices, and renewed turmoil in financial markets. VOA's Barry Wood has more. Federal Reserve Board Chai

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BERLIN, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- German Bundesliga club Schalke has signed goalkeeper Timo Hildebrand until the end of the season, the club announced on Friday. The 32-year-old former German international goalkeeper was out of contract and joined Schalke

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Bernanke Argues for Stronger Economic Stimulus The head of the U.S. central bank argued for more efforts to stimulate the economy on Friday, but did not say when or how such action might be taken. U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said unemp

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SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- The 2013 Special Olympic World Winter Games kicked off in the alpine town of Pyeongchang, located northeast of Seoul, on Tuesday with a grand opening ceremony. About 3,300 intellectually disabled athletes from 110 countries

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NEW YORK, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- American cyclist Lance Armstrong was stripped of a bronze medal he won at the 2000 Olympic Games by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday, hours before the airing of his interview with Oprah Winfrey in a

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LONDON, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Britain's Olympic boxing champion Terry Spinks has died after a long illness at 74, it was confirmed Friday. Spinks, who won an Olympic boxing gold medal at the 1956 Melbourne Games, died at his home in Essex just outside

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's Vasco da Gama will increase the capacity of its Sao Januario football stadium to 43,000 for the 2016 Olympic rugby sevens tournament. The club has until Wednesday (Oct. 31) to present redevelopment plans t

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LONDON, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Zhang Jike leapt over the barriers, ran to the podium, knelt down and kissed the top. That might be the most emotional moment for the newly crowned Olympic champion on Thursday. For the rest of the time, Zhang appeared calm

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LONDON, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results of the women's 56kg division weightlifting competition at the London Olympic Games on Sunday: 1. Om Yun Chol, DPR Korea, 293kg 2. Wu Jingbiao China, 289kg 3. Valentin Hristov, Azerbaijan, 286kg 4.

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LONDON, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Kobe Bryant will lead a bunch of big names from the U.S. Olympic basketball team to tour in China after the London Olympics. Bryant will fly directly from London to Beijing to kick off his journey that will start from Jina

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Olympic champion Liu knocked out of badminton Denmark Open ODENSE, Denmark, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- Sixth seeded Juliane Schenk of Germany caused a huge upset beating second seed Li Xuerui of China, who won gold at the London Olympics, in two sets 21-19,

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Chinese young paddler Xu eyes on Rio Olympics SUZHOU, East China, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- Just back home from London two weeks ago, one of China's most hopeful paddlers Xu Xin has set his eyes on the next Olympic Games in Rio four years later. Having sta

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LONDON, July 14 (Xinhua) --- Liu Xiang's back injury which forced him out of Saturday night's London Diamond League final will not affect his chance of winning at the Olympic Games in three weeks time, his coach Sun Haiping said here on Saturday. It'

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abstract nouns
airtrace
aristolochia zollingeriana
autosplenectomy
average wind
awaken
baby-pig disease
beaverette
benzosemiquinone
bhavani sagar
binding place
bojer
Böxlund
Callander's amputation
chih shih
chinagraph
chip injector
chromatographic function
Ci.Unc.
clankier
common sturgeongeneric term for genus acipenser
community-friendly
console receiver set
consumer sector
contra-revenue account
count maurice maeterlincks
critical-flow valve
crt storage monitors
D.D.P.
dermestid beetle
disasinize
dive in
dronkie
eczematosis
fissioning uranium
flash drying
floating foreign exchange
frequency measurement
GA-DTPA
grellow
group variable
half wave potential
Hastière-Lavaux
hopper door frame
import duty memo of customs
ingemination
journal pin
kahalani
kinswell
knife-board
lace and band crochet machine
learjets
ligamenta cricopharyngeum
liquid phase cracking process
metlife
micromaxillary deformity
mieskeit
military district
miss a train
Mörsch
nephrocyte
nitroprusside tests
ormoes
partial molar entropy
photoorganotroph
pin-hood
plain tube bank
poachiness
podocarpus macrophyllus macrophyllus
Point-to-Point Protocol
pole arm
pop
re-adhere
repomucenus olidus
rhododendron rubropilosum rubropilosum
ricochet bombing
rosette-shaped
saturated fatty acid glycerides
sawn-off wild-deer antler
sea level elevation
shape of the root cap
shellflowers
singleism
slag lump
sodium alphanaphthy-lamine sulfonate
stand against adversity
sulcus vomeris
Taraxacum badiocinnamomeum
Tarhun
tip of tongue
to draw breath
traditonal
tumble
ultimate source
unresponsively
vascular smooth muscle
veradoline
virus bundle
viscous mud-flow
vitelline vessel
waste incinerator
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