音标:['kwɔːtəstɑːf] ;
n. 铁头木棒(英国旧时的一种武器, 长六英尺至八英尺)
词型变化:名词复数形式 : quarter-staffs

今天我们要学的词是staff。Staff 做为名词是工作人员,比如 staff meeting就是职工会议。The Washington Times plans to cut staff for a second time in three years. 华盛顿时报计划裁员,这是三年以来的第二次了。

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- Overall bank lending conditions for emerging markets have improved for the first time since the second quarter of 2011, said a global financial industry report on Wednesday. The emerging market bank lending index rose

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今天我们要学的词是half-staff。Half-staff, 意思是降半旗。 As a matter of protocol, U.N. offices around the globe lowered their flags to half-staff to mark the funeral of former North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, 不久前维吉尼亚理工

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TOKYO, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Japan's economy shrank(缩小) an annualized real 1.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010, marking the first contraction in five quarters, the Cabinet Office said Monday. The October-December period figure, measured by gr

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BERLIN, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- German economy (经济) has seen a rapid recovery in the second quarter, as the gross domestic product (GDP) (国内生成总值) registered a growth of 2.2 percent compared with the first quarter, a record in the

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Britain's economy is sinking further into recession, even more than analysts had projected. The British government said Wednesday its economy contracted seven-tenths of a percent in the April-to-June period, its worst quarter since the height of the

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acetate dope
acidulousnesses
anti-xi-zero
Aozou
appointed date
aseptic processing room
basic sequential access
beef scribe saw
biospherean
bissey
cardea
cathaeresis
chemistry of minerals
chvez
closeness of contours
concerned with
Contact report.
Contributory Value for General Average
coupon ticket
cuprenyl
dail calliper
decani (decan)
defatted meal
ecosystem stability
eddy-motion
emblature
emulsion-tube
epithelium mucosal
face-down bonding
fine droplet
fluoridamid
foing
force screw
fortilice
free yen
front walls
genus mastodons
give short shrift
graded insulated winding
Gregerson-Boas' tests
grooved and tongued joint
Hmawbi
human-mades
humping section
hydrolysis
hyperpolarizing
hypochlorite generator
interframe Hadamard method
International Association of Seed Crushers
isoclinotropism
juggle sth away
kaltrauch
LCR (low compression ratio)
legal reserve
letter for auditor
lever-actuated pusher type stock guide
lickable
logging time
lukasa
Magione
maximum outside diameter of gear cut
maybach
Mesozoic era
metarelations
methyl hydrogen siloxane
micado yellow
non-reader
noncurrency
oblatest
open outcry trading
Oô, L.d'
polycystic liver
potassium nitrate
pre-registered
prostigmine bromide
quadruplex DNA
quasivariable
R factors
reader-oriented
red-green strabometer
Rice, Elmer
ring lock
rubus eustepganus focke
runaway market
safety requirement for nuclear installation operation
santa maria de belems
scurid
sectionman
southwestern
stells
stepwise synthesis
telescopic aperture
thalassochory
the production of wood for various uses
theory of least energy
therrene
triple gamma-ray cascade
Trout Dale
vesico-uraehal
wellto
whitefellows
zinc titanate ceramics