贪小失大(据《圣经旧约》,以撒之子以扫少年时一天打猎归来腹中饥饿,以长子名分换来其弟雅各的一碗红豆汤,从而失去了对父亲财产的继承权)

Beginner's Luckby Chris RoseJames Milners hands were shaking as he sat down at his desk. The man sitting at the computer terminal next to him laughed. First time on one of these machines, is it? No! lied James, as convincingly as he could. I could us

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(203) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英文故事与诗歌

Trump Considers Executive Order to End Birthright Citizenship President Donald Trump says he wants to end to the constitutional right of citizenship for babies born in the United States to non-U.S. citizens. Trump made the comments on the television

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今天要讲的三个习惯用语里都有一个关键词,那就是hard。Hard这个词也有许多解释。它经常被用作形容词,意思是某一样东西很硬或者是做某件事很困难,有的时候也可以指很激烈。我们今天要

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电影词典: directors cut 导演剪辑版 美国俚语: 剧中:I get the picture. get the picture : to understand the whole situation 对什么有全部的了解 e.g. 1After meeting his parents, Julie got the picture about her boyfriend. 在Jul

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今天我们要学的词是 acrimonious. acrimonious 的意思是尖刻的、充满火药味的。An acrimonious meeting of world leaders in Papua New Guinea failed to deliver a final communique, highlighting widening divisions between global powers

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Walmart had estimates that they import 15 billion dollars of Chinese goods every year, and maybe a lot more. Evan mentioned a figure of fifteen billion dollars direct and indirect imports, others have given this higher estimates, so well under 20 or

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我们上次学到了好几个由buy这个词组成的习惯用语. Buy通常解释买,而卖这个词的英文是sell。今天我们要讲几个包括sell这个词的习惯用语。第一个是: hard sell。很多人知道hard这个词可以解释硬

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A man wanted to sell a very fine horse.He stood in the market with his horse for three mornings but no one noticed that his horse was an exceptionally good one.He went to see Bo Le,who was well-known for his ability to judge horses.Sir,I ha

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By Cheng Xiao Hong and Zhang Songlin St. Louis, Missouri 19 September 2006 watch Bissell Dinner Theatre The Bissell Mansion Restaurant and Dinner Theater in the Midwestern city of St. Louis, Missouri promises visitors the chance to get away with mur

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By Claudia Blume Hong Kong 11 April 2008 The highly anticipated sale of the largest diamond ever to appear at an auction in Asia has failed. But demand for Chinese art, expensive watches and other collectors' items was strong at auction house Sotheby

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Some in US Questioning 'Birthright Citizenship' 美国或取消出生公民权 Any baby born in the United States automatically becomes a U.S. citizen. This is called birthright citizenship. Republicans running for president are questioning whether i

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AS IT IS 2016-11-27 An American National, But Not a Citizen The United States is made up of 50 states, the District of Columbia and 16 territories. Five of these territories are permanently inhabited. They are the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S

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Leading central banks have rushed to add more cash to the world's financial system in an effort to calm nervous international markets. As Ron Corben in Bangkok reports, most Asian stock markets fell again Thursday, as investors continued to react to

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By Efam Dovi Accra 05 March 2007 Thousands of tourists, as well as heads of state and dignitaries from around the world are arriving in Ghana, to celebrate the West African nation's 50th anniversary of political independence from British rule. As th

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25Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah. 2She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah. 3Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan; the descendants of Dedan were the Asshurites, the Letushites and the Leummites. 4The sons

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - August 30, 2002: Dolly Parton's New Album / A Question About Presidential Pens / eBay HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC - VOA's radio magazine in Special English. (THEME) This is Stev

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Don't sell that cow 别卖那头牛 The wise old Mother Superior was dying. The nuns gathered around her bed, trying to make her comfortable. They gave her some warm milk to drink, but she refused it. Then one nun took the glass back to the kitchen.

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China's e-commerce giant Alibaba has announced an investment of 10 billion yuan, or 1 and a half billion US dollars, over the next three years, to set up its service in the country's rural areas. This will likely help alleviate poverty. CCTV's Han Pe

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Investors in Asia sold shares in a panic, following the lead of Wall Street. Most stock markets saw some of the biggest price declines the October 1987 share crash. As Ron Corben reports from Bangkok, attention is now on the meeting of Group of Seve

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take sombody's mind off 使某人忘记 I bought myself a little gift to take my mind off my problems. 我给自己买了一个小礼物,让我忘掉所有的烦恼。 Maybe it'll take your mind off Betty. 也许这会让你忘掉贝蒂的。 Just

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学英语单词
air-cooled condenser
airparks
amino acid racemization dating
angle of attack (aoa)
associa
Atkinson, Pt.
available add-ins
barotrauma
beam diagnostics
beltrn
benign recurrent hematuria
BM-14217
broadband integrated service digital network
Burmā, Tall
cap bar
carbonate nodular forms
child - care worker
climatorial
clothes dryer
coding during train approaching
completely self-protecting transformer
computerized data bank
courts of last resort
cylindrical water tank
data change
DBHA
depreciation-fifty-percent method
dollarbirds
Downend
drag cup tachometer
extraordinariness
F-distribution
faye
feebates
Finikoff's treatment
friedelinol
fuel filling system
fuelwood forest
glacial sediment
glass-faced
growth strategies
hafnian zircon
halophenol
hett
Home Group
Horufadi
iodopropane
kears
key-hole
keyboard input print out
kreasote
laciness
maturity ratio
Mebyon Kernow
merteen
Mestigmèr
minorises
molding surface
ncmh
neo-confucian
numer center
Oak Valley
optical pyrometer
people on the Book
photoelectric emitter
plane stress condition
POQAP (plant operational quality assurance procedure)
primary sampling
reglucosylates
Sakartvelo
salt horst
Samern
scrap accumulation
shifting nursery
shupe
side dump stoker
sifhs
small-l liberals
smaltine (smaltite)
social securities
software package block
soillime
somethings-for-nothing
Souilly
Spiegler's reagent
Subtraskop
succulent scrub
Sumner-Somers methods
terribles
testing with Seleroscope
the three gorges
thermal wave imagine technique
tonguage
uncancerous
variable length word
violin clef
visceral plexus
Vitacimin
vitreous canal
weight break
Whitney sum
written disclosure