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n. 画中的陪衬物( 尤指风景画中的点景人物)

Beginner A: how old is Keith? B: hes 21. how old is James? A: hes a year older than Keith, but he looks younger. B: hows your father? A: hes fine. He retired last week. Its turning poing in his life. Now he can relax and enjoy his retirement. B: he

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While on an expedition in western China twenty years ago, some explorers discovered the mummies of a tall, red-haired people. Though estimated to be nearly 4,000 years old, the corpses were quite well

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: An effort to help American veterans get medical care faster is not working. NPR and some of its member stations have investigated a multi-billion dollar U.S. government program for veterans. It is supposed to add more doctors, nu

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haven't seen you for ages.我好久没见到你了。 age有物品或人的年龄的意思,上面age后加了s,是表示很长时间的意思。 What is the age of this building?这建筑物有多少年历史了? age也指人生的某一时期或年龄段。例如: I used to be a football player when I was

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What is it like to be old in the United States? What will our own lives be like when we are old? Americans find it difficult to think about old age until they are propelled into the midst of it by their own aging and that of relatives and friends. A

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Morgan Cohen walked into the campaign office for Hillary Clinton. He claimed to have a bomb strapped onto him. He told the five workers to go about their business, but he ordered them not to try to leave. If one of you tries to leave, he said, I will

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The Internet and social media are proving to be a double-edged sword. While they expand the possibilities of commerce and information-sharing, they are also used by terrorists(恐怖分子) to recruit members, to promote hate, and even to reveal ways

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[全屏观看] 点击右键- 另存为 可保存这个Flash影片 Description: Age of Japan is an incredible puzzle entertainment, which shines with unique graphics. All 40 game levels are rendered with Japane...

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[全屏观看] 点击右键- 另存为 可保存这个Flash影片 Description: Age of Japan is an incredible puzzle entertainment, which shines with unique graphics. All 40 game levels are rendered with Japane...

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Computers around the world are connected in an extensive communication system called the Internet. Transcript of radio broadcast: 17 June 2008 VOICE ONE: I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Tod

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By Franz Wild Abidjan 20 April 2006 The Nigerian university staff union says its members' working conditions have dropped below acceptable levels, and the government is interfering in academic affairs

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The same space seems shorter as we grow older, in youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the day. Apprehension is vivid,retentiveness strong, and our re

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Swimmer Dara Torres of the United States has tasted Olympic victory. But this year, the 41-year-old mother is carrying more than aspirations for a gold medal on her shoulders - she is carrying the hopes of a generation of athletes and fans. Torres w

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NEW YORK, Mar 10 (Reuters) - YouTube, the popular video site owned by Google Inc, said on Thursday it is adding 200 jobs, boosting its staff by more than 30 percent in its biggest hiring year. In a blog posting, the company also said more than 35 hou

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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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今天我们要学的词是age limit。 Age limit, 年龄限制。社交网站脸书网并不是任何人都能注册帐户的。 Facebook enforces an age limit of 13 years or older to register an account, 脸谱网规定,只有满13岁的人才能注

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 06 September 2006 The Eritrean government has expelled five U.N. staff members on spying allegations. Four out of the five are members of the U.N. Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea. The fifth was formerly a security coordinat

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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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Listen to March 3rd 2010 for background to this. The Minister of Transport, Steven Joyce, said there will be changes for young drivers to improve road safety. We already know that the government has planned to raise the driving age to 16 but this is

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The Ombudsman, Beverley Wakeham, told a Parliamentary committee that her office has too much work and too few staff. She needs another $1m to employ extra staff and for general administration. The job of the Ombudsman office is to deal with complaint

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a.j.
abrasio dentium
all one could do not to
alpinums
anti-ablative adhesive
apartheidizing
arc absorber
back saw
battery truck garage
blockworks
bracing member
Britticization
buck/boost converter
bulkogen
Carpinus hupeana
caulking tool
Cherokeen
Cinchona succirubra
common palmar digital arteries
constant-amplitude wave
dead drop
deskfaxes
direct action fuze
Discoidin
EAG (equipment advisory group)
El Tambo
electron-beam memory
emberiza spodocephala spodocephala
epistaxes
exchange membership
executed estate
fractional linear transformation
gage glass protector
garganite
genome scanning
glos-
God's bones
ground movement control (gmc)
hang in the wind
harrods
has bought it
Hiss and Russell's Y bacillus
hydrazide hydrazone
independent component
investment bankers
jungermaniaceae acrogynae
Kau Sai Chau
Kātrīnā, Jab.
land occupancy charge
load stage
low-velocity gun
lutocyclin
luxury duty
make broad her phylacteries
malformation-crystal
marine noise
megaplan
Metro-style app
miserability
modern code
molar density
moxibustionist
netmaking
noise supperssor
non-fractionating distillation
o-hydroxybenzoic acid
odd even loop
of price
openviews
OSRI
palatic
papoose
premanufactures
press release
protumorgenic
radial clearance
remote backup protection system
ring the alarm
rogers pass
rotary type through-flow dryer
salsitude
scarpine
self-elect
ship specification
sound-ranging base
spectral filter
statistical coverage interval
streone
supramental
swivel-wing
the daughter of the danube
tianjin university
Tiguent
time-delay valve
transmediums
tryptophan decarboxylase
Twin Oaks
ultrasonic densimeter
ultrasonic radar
water absorption testing
well-dying
Wettelsheim