The opposite of being drunk, its as sober as you can ever be. It strips away all the illusion, all the comforting pink fog in which people normally spend their lives, and lets them see and think clearly for the first time ever. Then, after they've screamed a bit, they make sure they never get knurd again" - Terry Pratchett
> "If I drink any more coffee I risk being knurd."

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Y: 我是杨晨。 P: 我是Patrick. Y: 您一定也和我一样最喜欢看田径比赛,特别是跨栏。 P: hurdles, h-u-r-d-l-e-s。 Y: 一百一十米跨栏就是: P: One hundred ten meter hurdles. Y: hurdle就是障碍。110米跨栏不仅要

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In this advanced Business English Podcast we continue to look at the language and skills of interviewing for jobs in English. So far in this series, weve examined two common question themes that you will likely be asked in almost any interview. They

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Today we have a test for you -- a vocabulary quiz. The words are all related to agriculture. We start with two questions about terms for plants. Ready? First question: What do we call a plant that l

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: A half a century ago, a daredevil from Butte, Mont., rocketed into national prominence on a motorbike. Frank Morris of member station KCUR tells us about a new museum celebrating all that is Evel - Evel Knievel, that is. FRANK MOR

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A man and a woman died in an apparent murder-suicide last night in Altadena. The man was 74-year-old Dominic Vittorio. The woman was his 70-year-old wife, Victoria. The couple had been married for 50 years. In fact, their 50th anniversary occurred ju

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 19 July 2007 Renowned British soccer star David Beckham is scheduled to play his first game with the Los Angeles Galaxy Saturday, when the Galaxy will face the visiting English team, Chelsea. However, an injury may kee

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U.S. lawmakers have accused major credit rating agencies of serious failures in how they assessed mortgage-backed securities and other investments. Executives of major firms, and former employees testified at a congressional hearing, the latest to e

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West of Memphis Movie Sparks Murder Debate Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley and Charles Jason Baldwin were accused of the crime. Their conviction, it turned out, was based on questionable evidence and false testimonies. The widely publicized trials a

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你知道以kn作为开头的词汇如何发音吗?看看今天的英语点滴来了解更多!你会掌握这个knack(诀窍)并know(知道)这些词汇的正确发音。 这里有一个规则:以字母组合kn开头的英语单词词首的

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学英语单词
ac2
advertisers
affective test
algolagnic
arabis
as cast
bench magma
biogeologist
bowl type cage
Britton-Robinson buffer mixture
can't help doing sth
carbon chamber
carrier cradle
cephazoline
check and ratify
chloraloxime
chrysophyllum oliviformes
collector's editions
community service
corase screen
counter-down
curtain walls
Decapterus macarellus
desoxyjacareubin
dinobryon sertularia
down with the dust
electromagnetic accoustical instrument
electron automatic compensator
emerg.
exograph
fault tracer
fovea limbica
garden mattock
gas producer furnace
geometric acoustics
giambologna
good faith bargaining
Grodków
hand-feeds
heat cycle test
hed contact type
higher critical velocity
homerooms
Hyalosporae
hydrogen sintering
hygiene regulations
illicium henryi diels
inglehart
intralaryngeal surgery
investigation measure
ischemic intestinal colic
JPA
krosnick
lanugo hair
live separate
loei (muang loei)
mana points
mancias
maximum machining diameter
muck up
multiple-feed network
neo-Pentecostalist
non-deterministic space complexity
non-equilibrium condition
nozzle die unit
nursehounds
ornithogal
oversea shipment
PAFE
part cut-type open cut tunnel
perspiration on forehead
photoelastic simulating
pinnacled
polyester filament oil
primary collecting ducts
pusateri
pyrostib
racial supremacies
re-rate
red tetrazoline
registered user
rodolia sexnotata
Roguszyn
rope spinning
second order logic
self-exile
semi-active stabilized platform
shih pu y?eh
sinistral shear fault
space gauge
strain rate
supravenous
tear-off
transportable height finder
trimerisation
Tulette
tunicamine
ultra-acoustics
unblameably
wakeboard
war machine
wxrt