(spanker 的复数) n. 急行的人, 飞跑的马, (非正式)出色的人
plural of spanker
n. a fore-and-aft sail set on the aftermost lower mast (usually the mizzenmast) of a vessel

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More than two decades of Washington events, unedited and uncut Art Chimes | Washington, DC 26 March 2010 Related Links C-SPAN Video Archive Time again for our Website of the Week, when we showcase interesting and innovative online destinations. This

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we talk with the author of a book called Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language. RS: Ilan Stavans is a professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst Colleg

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My favorite season has to be autumn, although when it gets to autumn I feel slightly disapointed because I know that after summer the weather gets colder and the nights get shorter and the evenings get darker. I still really like autumn. One of my fa

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Once again, Christchurch is hosting the Buskers Festival. This time it is the 19th year. Buskers are street performers. Listen to January 24th 2011 to hear about last years events. This year it will be different but the same, said organizers. The ven

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What are buskers? They are street performers. They perform circus acts like acrobatics or juggling, or singing and dancing, and they are always very clever and very funny. They get paid at the end of their show when the audience throws money in the h

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