音标:['kwɔ:tәstɑ:f] ;
n. 铁头木棒(英国旧时的一种武器, 长六英尺至八英尺)
n. a long stout staff used as a weapon
词型变化:名词复数形式 : quarterstaffs
词性分布:
名词100%

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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articulated tower mooring system
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crousel
dark conductance
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epichlorohydrine
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genus Ceratopteris
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poachers gun
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prionospio japonicus
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quatrumvirate
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summary of transportation revenue
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