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vt. (股票等)运作差于(一般市场价格)
vi. 表现不佳;工作不如预期(或同行)

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学英语单词
active floridin
actual argument
air sampling rig
Austrocactus
binds-over
Bless me
body stall
bullet proof cloth
bushaile
carboxyhaemoglobins
Cazorla, Sa.de
chrysanthemum dicarboxylic acid monomethylester
clappet(valve)
closed-type bearing
d'
darulaman (dar-ol-amam)
deceptious
demystifying
diagram of heat flow
direct-current grid bias
domestically produced energy
Drasenhofen
dynamic dispatch
elai(o)-
error corrected
fabianas
fine draw
four-point starting box
generalls
genus Iliamna
glauconite
globe-trots
glycinate
great bushmanland
Hamdi's solution
haul down one's colours
heavy still bottoms
high level anticyclone
iguassu fallss
imbars
indirect inference
kefalas
kilomega
lads love
Landguard Point
langia zenzeroides formosana
laybacking
lemoore
lepocytes
leu-enkaphalin
lever crank mechanism
light crude pyridine
liquid metals
lordliest
loss of the private right
louann
magnox alloys
main belt
mechanoagymnastics
melanaphis arundinariae
mephenytoins
molybdodyspepsia
monadists
multiple leaf spring
noisy white
nought withstanding
panic rate
partes prostatica
performance calculation
phosphorus oxydibromochloride
pick take up the thread
point availability
poppies
pressure in money market
primary explosive ratio
Profumos
Pseudobombax ellipticum
receive-only typing reperforator
Reston, James Barrett
rubber ring seal
saint-denis
selective charging
shitposters
Simeulue Island
singular transformation
sitophilia
small-scale view
spheric bulb
Spike Lee
statistic series
stereoscopic radiograph
superior fovea of rhomboid fossa
talketh
thirlwalls
traveling dispensary
trimerized
unreceiving
unsharpening
video horizontal retrace
wagging
what if'
write mode