音标:['bʌtrəsɪz] ;
n. 扶壁, 扶垛( buttress的名词复数 )
v. 用扶壁支撑, 加固( buttress的第三人称单数 )
n a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building
v reinforce with a buttress
v make stronger or defensible

1. Forecasters say Hurricane Irene is getting a little stronger as it turns over the Bahamas, heading toward the East Coast. The storm is expected to grow over warmer waters. Now, vacationers are leaving parts of North Carolina. 2. Earthquake damage

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(235) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2011(八月)

There is another famous church in Paris built to that other Mary in the Bible known as Mary Magdalene. 巴黎还有一个著名的教堂是为《圣经》里另外一个玛莉亚而建的,这个玛莉亚叫做抹大拉的玛莉亚。 This church to

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生世界地理教材

When you land in France you see French flags flying; 到了法国,你就看到法国国旗在各处飘扬; they are red, white, and blue, the same colors as our own flag, but their flags have only three stripes and the stripes are up and down, 法国

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(161) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生世界地理教材

Hey, we are in luck. It's a sunny Monday for our day trip out to Salisbury where we'll continue our peek into mediaeval architecture. As the mediaeval world developed more political stability and weal

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(196) / 评论(0) 分类 雾都漫步

The Tay Bridge Disaster Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of 1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time. 'Twas about seven o'clock at nigh

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(219) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英文故事与诗歌

We stay in Scotland for todays podcast. We are going to meet a man called William Topaz McGonagall. Most people agree that he was the worst poet ever in the English language. He was born in 1825. His father was a cotton weaver, who had to move from t

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(150) / 评论(0) 分类 听播客学英语
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a long way away
advisory committee of thermometry
alert by radar
angiorrbagia
angle-to-code
application selection menu
Araiu
at this moment in time
ballast water tank
bisilrcate(metaslicates)
brentnalls
budget ledger
car cloning
carpenter plan
cephaoexin
chawners
Christian Schonbein
circulating fund
CLAVAGILLIDAE
close of a business year
Colonial Revival
congenital astigmatism
conkout
conus marmoreus vidua
corporation school
cost accountion
cousin sisters
crispature
crossectomies
cryoprotector(cryoprotectant)
Custer's Last Stand
darbar
diluvial upland
discharge current noise
dormant accounts
dynamoelectric motor (dynamotor)
Edemex
escort handling machinery
etch rate
expanding carburetor
fence mendings
fluvial morphology
frequency distributions
genus pisanosauruss
geographical strain
glass microballoon reinforcement
granger non-causality
griseomycin
growth and decline
hardware-assisted software queue
Holy Sacrament
hyperchloruration
inclusive rent
inductor microelement
inflammatory bowel diseases
instante
ipoh aker
Italian twisting machine
knock for a loop
KUCA (Kyoto University Critical Assembly)
landing-net
load water mark
local terrain correction
loombands
mainprised
Maple Creek
maximum-demand meter
melanaphis sacchari
messaging patterns
methyl o benzoylbenzoate
mind bender
mirror grinding
missile-bearing laser beam
Mtua
New York Drama Critics Circle Award
oligarchism
polarity superchron
pulse-repetition cycle
punch forming
pyrenoid like body
quick system programming language
rayde
regular expenses
relative elevation
saturation hygrometer
self sustained oscillations
single card connector
sophistic
stojkovics
suprarenalectomy
switching surge overvoltage
Tashla
tiktaalik
trailing cable
transient propagation delay
transition
voice extensible markup language
Walther's ganglion
Web Services Coordination
white erysipelas
wire material
WRSSR