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People love to keep track of who the world's richest person is. If you ask, almost anyone will say it is Bill Gates. After all, that has been the answer for over a decade. However, according to a Mexican business reporter, Carlos Slim Hel's US$67.8 b

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The sky looks lacquered; clouds there are none; the horizon floats; 天空象是涂上一层漆；万里晴空，没有一片云彩；水平线在漂泛着； and this nakedness of unrelieved radiance is as the insufferable splendors of God's throne.

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cooperative a.合作的 Though she didn't like the activity, she did her best to be cooperative. 虽然她不喜欢这项活动，但她还是尽力去作配合。 overcome vt.克服 I could not overcome the difficulty of learning French, so I change