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by Mignon Fogarty This week in the United States we celebrate Veterans Day, a holiday to remember the end of World War I in 1918, but the name of the holiday brings up a common question: Do we need an apostrophe in the word Veterans? The short answer

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Ten Phobias That Disrupt Our Lives 2 5 Agoraphobia: Fear of open or public spaces People who suffer from this phobia often fear being unable to escape the situation. This is “the most common and the

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 26 January 2006 The anti-corruption group, Transparency International, has blasted the World Bank for loaning Kenya $25 million to fight corruption, following allegations imp

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is apostrophes. When I was in second grade, I lost a spelling bee because I misspelled the word its. I put an apostrophe in when I shouldn't have, and it was a very traumatic moment in my young life. So when listeners

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is tough apostrophe issues. I said it in the last episode about apostrophes, and I'll say it again: there are some confusing situations when it comes to apostrophes. For example, Christine, from Portland, Oregon; Judy

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By Marianne Kearney Jakarta 13 May 2006 Mount Merapi in photo taken from Bebeng villages in Yogyakarta, central Java, May 13 2006 Indonesia has raised the alert level for the Merapi volcano in central

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By Challiss McDonough Cairo 03 February 2006 Ferry

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Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso will meet Tuesday with President Barrack Obama. He will be the first foreign leader to visit the White House since the new administration took office last month. Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso speaks during session a

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(138) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(二月)

Cameroonian Develops Mobile Telephone Application To Fight Corruption Baksheesh in Arabic is money offered to crooked officials to get rid of red-tape. And so NoBakchich implies no more bribes. Thats the name of a mobile telephone application conceiv

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The arrests of more than 40 prominent politicians and Jewish leaders in New Jersey and New York on corruption and money laundering charges have sent shockwaves through the close-knit Syrian Jewish community there. Federal investigators in New Jersey

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(140) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(七月)

Researchers witnessed a spectacular fiery(炽热的) underwater volcano explosion and captured it on video. It's believed to be the deepest ocean volcano eruption ever recorded. The undersea Pacific Ocean explosions in May of this year were recor

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By Jim Malone 11 January 2006 Opposition Democrats expect to make gains in congressional elections later this year in part because of a corruption scandal involving once-powerful Republican lobbyist J

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By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 15 June 2007 The long-running corruption trial of former Philippine president Joseph Estrada has ended, and the country now awaits a verdict in the high-profile case. VOA's Heda Bayron reports from our Asia News Center in Hon

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今天我们要学的词是catastrophe。 Catastrophe, 是灾难的意思。 Humanitarian catastrophe, 就是人道主义灾难。缅甸发生强热带风暴后,国际慈善机构乐施会警告说,缅甸已经处于一场公共健康灾难的边缘

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By Roger Wilkison Bangkok 10 July 2007 Thaksin Shinawatra A panel of Thai Supreme Court judges has agreed to hear the first corruption case against former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra next month. From Bangkok, Roger Wilkison reports the court or

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By Anna Ardayeva Moscow 13 July 2006 watch Corruption Russia Russia is gearing up to host the leaders of the worlds most developed countries at a G8 Summit in St. Petersburg. The leaders will get to see the fruit of the Russian energy boom: with oil

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2016s word of the year was Fuuuuuuuuuuck. 2016年的年度热词是Fuuuuuuuuuuck(我勒个擦/妈了个鸡/卧槽自行翻译吧)。 In the past, Merriam-Websters Word of the Year directly corresponded to the major events of that year. 过去,韦氏年

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By Rory Byrne Phnom Penh 20 June 2007 Cambodia's annual donor conference has ended with pledges of almost $700 million in aid, even though donors expressed frustration at continued corruption and poor governance in the country. Cambodia has enjoyed r

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Thailand's army chief vows the military will not use force against protesters in Bangkok. As Ron Corben reports from Bangkok, his comments follow a state of emergency declared by Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej. Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej gestu

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Otago University Neuro-surgery department will not close and Christchurch hospital which has four neurosurgeons will get one more. This news was announced yesterday. Neuro-surgery is brain surgery. Earlier this year, the government said it was too ex

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学英语单词
a long bit
a priorism
acknowledging impulse
always safely afloat
amarillis
amyl-
australopith
axial-flow ventilation
binary word
breakshuach
bring someone's heart into his mouth
brooder house
canoe-single
celiac syndrome
circuit-breader with lock-out preventing closing
Cloromilen
communication modem
compound tubnlar glands
condenser transducer
constant-incidence cruise
coolheadedness
Coppename
copper lead matte
crawl
crown mean diameter
define waypoint
DHTB
diagnoses
dilute urine
double-click
durgas
eat one's corn in the blade
edible dormice
El Faldar
electromechanical interlocking machine
Eliot, George
embryonal foot
exhaustivenesses
extended cartesian product
F clefs
farenheits
framed bent
girlness
grocer's itch
hand control sprayer
Hankow
hay equivalent
Hexaklor
high birefringence fiber
hyaline connective tissue
hydatic
Hylemyia
Indian Pacific
inductive meter
innermost electron
interior lighting
jacquet
jan gossaert
knuckle down to work
La Rivière
leasehold value
locus of KG
luthiens
make herself known to
manacles
mare-like plain
mucolytic enzyme
Nineteenth Amendment
nondescript herd
not to be dropped
offspringing
ordinal response
orthotopic graft
osi lmplementors workshop
parahermanites avenolithis
Ponte di Piave
precedence of pulse manifestation over symptoms
pull-down claw
pyrk
rabinovitz
ranga
Rankin Glacier
rated seat of loaded vehicle
recessive white
right handed crystal
Ruppiaceae
sedimentary organic material
sherrite process
single mixing
spectroscopic
stackin' papers
staphylococcus pneumonia
swing-beater pulverizer
syrupus zingiberis
test patterns
time stands still
twattles
up-and-coming
w-cell
water-thinned resin
woodmills
zoidiophilous flower