borogove (plural borogoves)
A thin shabby-looking fictional bird with its feathers sticking out all round, something like a live mop, first introduced in the nonsense poem Jabberwocky.
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Britain 英国 Fish Wars: Have your fish cake and eat it 渔业之争:做鱼开吃 A silly spat about seafood shows the sort of compromises that Brexit will force 一场关于海产品的愚蠢争论暴露了英国脱欧面临的问题。 Britain's

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

According to the 2010 World Population Data Sheet, there will be fewer workers to support an aging population in the coming decades. The booming population growth of the past century has slowed, but improving health conditions and stubbornly high bir

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. European Union officials agreed on a debt rescue plan this week. They also got a message from Britain's new governing parties. WILLIAM HAGUE: It was not difficult to agree between us that neither part

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Most American schools have boys and girls in the same classroom. But a public high school in the small, rural town of Boonsboro, Maryland, offers a special program. Top students in the ninth and tenth

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By Challiss McDonough Beirut 01 December 2006 Hundreds of thousands of opposition protesters rallied in central Beirut on Friday, in a Hezbollah-organized demonstration aimed at bringing down the government of Prime Minister Fuad Siniora. Thousands

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Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif says his party, the Pakistan Muslim League-N has quit the ruling coalition government because its main partner, the Pakistan People's Party, has broken several key policy promises. VOA's Barry Newhouse r

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President-elect Barack Obama says he did not discuss his vacant Senate seat with Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who was arrested earlier this week on corruption charges. The scandal has become a distraction for Mr. Obama as he prepares to become

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Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Deputy Secretary of State Jacob Lew address the media at the Combined Press Information Center in Baghdad, Iraq, 27 Jul 2010 Two senior U.S. officials called on Iraqi leaders Tuesday t

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Economy, Post Office Woes Force Iowa Town off Map The United States Postal Service is facing unprecedented financial losses. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe recently told lawmakers his agency needed government intervention by the end of the year t

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Fighting between Yemeni government forces and a Shi'ite rebel group in the north of the country appears to have intensified, with reports of casualties on both sides. Image taken from video released by the office of rebel leader Abdel Malik al-Hawth

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Legislation 法规 A: Has your company been affected much by government legislation? A:政府法规对你们公司影响大吗? B: Yes, we have. We've had to clean up our production process a lot to meet tough government standards. B:是。为了严格

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The White House is condemning Tuesday's assassination of the governor of Baghdad province. The Bush administration says continuing violence will not delay Iraqi elections later this month. 白宫谴责了星期二暗杀伊拉克巴格达省省长的行

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We've got situation near the Secretary State who will not engage with this in any constructive way at all. And I think we feel very frustrated about that. I'm sure parents do too. But Michael Gove says he's driving up standards. Every policy that Mic

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Boris Johnson's allies warned there is a 'deep pit in Hell' waiting for Michael Gove tonight after the Justice Secretary stabbed his fellow Brexit champion in the back saying he was not up to being Prime Minister. 英国司法部长迈克尔?戈夫背后

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Boris Johnson's allies warned there is a 'deep pit in Hell' waiting for Michael Gove tonight after the Justice Secretary stabbed his fellow Brexit champion in the back saying he was not up to being Prime Minister. 英国司法部长迈克尔?戈夫背后

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In public high schools across America, large classes containing a mix of both boys and girls are the norm. However, in a move that's drawing high marks from students, one public school in Maryland has decided to buck that tradition. Class experimentA

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By Brian Padden Irbil 20 August 2007 Iraqi officials say a roadside bomb has killed the governor of the southern Shi'ite majority province of Muthanna. VOA's Brian Padden reports from the northern Iraqi city of Irbil. Insurgents killed the governor o

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By Dan Robinson Washington 07 June 2007 President Bush's nominee to be special adviser on Iraq and Afghanistan says he is concerned about the Iraqi government's capacity for political reconciliation. Lieutenant General Douglas Lute also told a Senat

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Is 'sorry' the hardest word? Not for the British Education Secretary Michael Gove, who has apologised recently to his former French teacher for misbehaving in class. It took him 30 years to express regret for, as he said, competing with his classmate

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By Dan Robinson Washington 23 October 2007 Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress remain far apart over a number of contentious issues, including uncompleted government spending bills, President Bush's request for more money for military oper

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a big hand
Abū 'Alī
Agoo
allochthonous fossil
anorectal
anti-human
antichristianized
antiwrinkle band
arcus raninus artery
asshelmet
assn.,ass'n.,Assn.
Auric, Georges
bunching area
center matched
champion holder
Cob's-body
coction
cod-end out haul winch
commuter bus
confutations
conventional maximum switching overvoltage
cowlesite
craniotabes
derivative block
download protocol
dust fuel
dynamometric system
elephant-head dune
emergency plant
epacmastic
epichil
et vir
external taxes
fireworkss
flight-course computer
flowflux
four-terminal resistivity
fulmar petrel
gedunks
glade ferns
grease-removing agent
gushers
happy trails
heines
i-swowen
injection electroluminescence
interface charge
intersessamoidean ligament
intraorbital foreign body
Jennings R.
kalium carbonicum
Katoma
Konzaung
less than or equal to
lint paper
Macurure
mail revenue
make ready for
mbouis
micromactra angulifera
more nice than wise
murenu
nepids
Onosma luquanense
out-of-district
Pastviny
polystichum acanthophyllum
pore conduction
pretence of ignorance
primary layer
raw sugar factory
reflective symmetry
relative location
retrograde neurotransmitter
sajou
self-baling boat
semiflexibility
sport suit
ST_light-and-colour_the-qualities-of-colour
subadamantine
superionic conductor
survival state
symblepharonpterygium
tchibinda
tegmentalis radiatio
transhipment and/or partial shipment to be allowed
translucent glass
triaza
trichophyton megalosporon endothrix
universal game player
uve(o)-
vibrational energy of molecule
weathercast
white cold blast pig iron
white lotuss
whoopy-do
widening of embankment
Yegyaw
young in the trade
zaccheo
zhongnanhais