音标:['pɔsnet] ;
posnet
['pɔsnet]
n.
[古语](煮食物用的)金属锅,金属器皿

by Mignon Fogarty This week in the United States we celebrate Veterans Day, a holiday to remember the end of World War I in 1918, but the name of the holiday brings up a common question: Do we need an apostrophe in the word Veterans? The short answer

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(192) / 评论(0) 分类 跟谢孟媛学语法

The United Nations Foundation has raised over $20 million so far and supplied more than 700,000 treated bed nets to families. Transcript of radio broadcast: 27 July 2008 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Malaria parasites are sprea

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1. depose /dɪˈpəʊz/ -- (literally, put down) put out of office; dethrone Did the king abdicate or was he deposed? 那个国王是自己放弃了王位还是被废的? 2. impose /imˈpəuz/ -- put on as a burden, duty, tax, etc.; inflict Cleanin

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(148) / 评论(0) 分类 突破英文词汇

This is the second in a two-part Business English Pod series about an internal meeting to consider a proposal. As we saw in the last episode, this type of meeting can be similar to a negotiation. People with different opinions sit around the table an

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(183) / 评论(0) 分类 商务英语会议解析

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is apostrophes. When I was in second grade, I lost a spelling bee because I misspelled the word its. I put an apostrophe in when I shouldn't have, and it was a very traumatic moment in my young life. So when listeners

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(124) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is tough apostrophe issues. I said it in the last episode about apostrophes, and I'll say it again: there are some confusing situations when it comes to apostrophes. For example, Christine, from Portland, Oregon; Judy

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(158) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Hurricane Gustav, which killed at least 22 people in Haiti, is now headed south of Cuba, but forecasters believe the storm will move north into the Gulf of Mexico by early next week and threaten a coastal area that stretches from Texas to the Florid

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(101) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(八月)

By Nancy-Amelia Collins Islamabad 01 January 2008 Pakistani officials say elections will be delayed until February because it is impossible to hold next week's parliamentary vote on time. Election Commission Secretary-General Kanwar Dilshad told rep

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(125) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(一月)

By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 29 August 2007 Philippine security forces are on high alert for possible attacks by communist rebels after Dutch authorities arrested their exiled leader in the city of Utrecht. VOA's Heda Bayron reports from our Asia News Ce

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(173) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(八月)

Jamat ud Dawa, formerly Lashkar-e Taiba parading in a Pakistani city (file photo) Pakistan-based Lashkar-e Taiba or LET was for a long time considered a militant group fighting Indian rule of Kashmir. But after Chicago-based American David Headley pl

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(三月)

Greg Flakus President Bush and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met Monday at Mr. Bush's ranch near Crawford , Texas , where they discussed Iraq and the Middle East in general. Both leaders are backin

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(164) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(上)--各类新闻

By Cathy Majtenyi Bujumbura 24 April 2006 Every 30 seconds a child in Africa dies of malaria. Health care workers report a drop in malaria rates with bed net use, but in the tiny central African natio

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(202) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(四月)

Obama Proposal Could Help US-Russian Ties President Obama chose an iconic Cold War location -- the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin -- to make his new arms control proposal, offering to reduce U.S. nuclear warheads by one third. I intend to seek negotiated

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 27 November 2007 The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria reports nearly every family with children in Africa soon could have a bed net to protect against malaria. The Geneva-based Global Fund says it has delive

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The parties to Zimbabwe's power sharing agreement have failed to agree on the allocation of cabinet posts. Tendai Maphosa reports for VOA from Harare that the opposition says the only option is intervention by the Southern African Development Commun

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By Nico Colombant Dakar 13 December 2006 As events in Washington mark the U.S. government effort to combat malaria in Africa, West Africans, themselves, are busy applying techniques they were unfamiliar with and trying new drugs. VOA's Nico Colomban

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OMG! Congratulations to both of you!! How did he pop the question??OMG! 祝贺你们俩啊!!他怎么求的婚啊??

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By Scott Bobb Durban 14 June 2007 South Africa boasts some of the most beautiful beaches in the world,which attract millions of tourists each year. A series of fatal shark attacks in the Durban area in the 1940s led local authorities to install shark

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(157) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(六月)

The Board Meeting had come to an end. Bob started to stand up and jostled the table, spilling his coffee over his notes. How embarrassing. I am getting so clumsy in my old age.Everyone had a good laugh, and soon we were all telling stories of our mos

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(134) / 评论(0) 分类 英语美文

Rural broadband 乡村宽带 Going underground 埋入地下 Frustrated country-dwellers build their own internet connections 无奈的乡下居民自行建立网络连接 Hold onI'll try you on Skype 别挂,我再试试Skype FUSION splicing is a te

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alchy
all after
antielimination
Babinet, Jacgues
bachems
balanced rotary armature
band instrument
be a chapter of accidents
Book of Mormon Belt
branch tendril
bugle-players
Butantã
case knife runner bean
catalyst burn-off still
catch-22s
chipcard
circular shears
clearing hawse
crest diameter tolerance
danco
dardanuss
descartess
dictyosporium elegans
digital watch
drop-kick
Eggermühlen
electrolyte balance
embedded Web server
euthaniser
faggot sausages
gas sampling line
goodbye, cruel world
gynocidal
homiletic
hydrostatic stress field
impedimentary
in the pig's whisper
individual word
inertial tensor
installation accuracy
internal power source
itai-itai diseae
job program mode
John Doe
judgment by default
kellas
Kéniéran
lommy
long variable-flap ejector (lvfe)
low-hydrogen type electrode
macrogauzes
manual chain-driven carrier
massanutten mountain
matching Fluid
mcnall
mean square displacement
medium turquoise
minute man
monosex
nandimba
nerving
nijhoff
nonresponse
Northants
os basilare
overhead cost standards
pancreatico-mesenteric
paper diapers
perforation of tympanic membrane
photomultiplications
Planeta Rica
problem of clean bill of lading
proglottid
reactor pressure vessel steel liner
ready-to-drink
redividers
rs-232 interface
rural erosion rate
schoeck
second only to
Sellières
shawl-collar
sheer leg derrick
sherardizing
shufties
simple pole
simultaneous carry
socio
solar-cell array
Sotta
speed humps
Spijkenisse
spintester
steering horizontal shaft
threoses
tranqed
unitism
Uxbridge
VGA monitor
vizcainoes
Warbeck, Perkin
winning opening