n. 哑剧;舞剧;手势 (pantomime的变形)

Are you a good tipper? You're out to dinner. The food was delicious and the service was fine. You decide to leave a big fat tip - why? The answer may not be as simple as you think. 当你在外面吃饭的时候,食物可口,服务周到,于是你

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WORDS AND THEIR STORIES - Tinpan Alley By Susan Kelen Broadcast: Sunday, October 10, 2004 Now, the VOA Special English Program Words and Their Stories. Today, we tell about the expression, tinpan alle

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Of course, in this century, uses for drones go far beyond war, to include surveillance, exploration, photography, racing. And one young inventor is hoping that smart drones will be able to navigate dangerous places, avoiding obstacles while searching

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Out of the frying pan and into the fire 【1+1英文】 Angela:

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Double Star Chapter One If a man walks in dressed like a hick and acting as if he owned the place, he's a spaceman. It is a logical necessity. His profession makes him feel like boss of all creation; when he sets foot dirtside he is slumming among th

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panacea /ˌpnə'si:ə/ A two-week vacation is wonderful for fatigue, but will not cure baldness or improve vision. It is no panacea. -- remedy for all ills; cure-all; universal remedy ﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌

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150 enough is enough Betty Glover was in a militant mood as she approached to Brian, her husband of 25 years. Your idea of what you call our happy matrimony has been nothing but a mirage, a figment of your minimalist imagination. The amount of money

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(WA) Did you know you can catch a mood? A bad mood isn't spread by a virus like the flu is, but it can be contagious. Moods sort of drift from person to person unconsciously --- slight, unintentional signals carry the mood. You've probably experienc

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By Jim Bertel Washington, DC 17 February 2006 watch Bird Flu report As the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu continues to spread from Asia to the Middle East, Africa and Europe, there have been many pred

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This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. Thisll just take a minute. When is an ant like a piece of fruit? When its infected by a parasite. Researchers affiliated with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute discovered t

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Are smarter people drown to music, theater and dance? Or does arts training in childhood change the brain in positive ways? In 2004, the philanthropic Dana Foundation cre

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今天我们要讲的习惯用语都包括pan这个词。它最常见的意思是平底锅或者盘子。我们要学的第一个习惯用语是: out of the frying pan into the fire。 Frying意思是油煎或者油炸,所以frying pan就是煎东西

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托福阅读文章常见题材思路及词汇 TOEFL阅读有一些常见高频题材,这些题材下面会有经常考到的固定词汇和思路,整理出来供大家分享。 生物类: 迁徙动物migrate 群居动物 social animal 独居动物

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Science and technology 科学技术 Mimicry 模仿 The first sparrowhawk of spring 春天第一只雀鹰 To obtain better access to warbler nests, cuckoos mimic raptors 为了更好地抢占莺的巢穴,杜鹃通常会模仿成猛禽的样子 THE r

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Science and Technology Mimicry The first sparrowhawk of spring 科技 模仿 春天第一只雀鹰 To obtain better access to warbler nests, cuckoos mimic raptors 为了更好地抢占莺的巢穴,杜鹃通常会模仿成猛禽的样子 THE resembl

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Science and Technology Mimicry The first sparrowhawk of spring 科技 模仿 春天第一只雀鹰 To obtain better access to warbler nests, cuckoos mimic raptors 为了更好地抢占莺的巢穴,杜鹃通常会模仿成猛禽的样子 THE resembl

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Killer Whale Culture Revealed By Mimicking Us Killer whales, also called orcas, are like dolphins and belugasthey all have a wide vocal repertoire. But orcas also have uniquedialects among different pods. Which suggests the animals can learn new and

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Mimicry in Plants Plant adaptations can be remarkably complex. Certain species of orchids, for instance, imitate female bees, other plants look and smell like dead animals, and still others have the appearance of stones. These strange adaptations to

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复习新托福阅读最好了解一些常考的托福阅读考试背景类型,尤其是学科分类,对于备考新托福阅读非常有帮助。 生物类 群居动物 social animal 独居动物 solitary solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude独特

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary ingest: to eat or drink tell apart: to distinguish a difference between people and things hind: back non-toxic: not poisonous resemble: to look alike mimicry: a survival technique where one species evolves to resemble another

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absolute efficiency inspection
agmatology
Ally Pally
army surplus store
bell control lever
birth-and-death chain
Block Island Sound
campaign group
capital tie up
carrier state
cast sth behind one's back
cavity drag
central control system
charlesite
checkering tool
cinnamomum camphora nominale
cold-damp affecting spleen
coloboma of lens
colour phase diagram
concave camber
concos
cosmogeny
cotton-growing
cross handle
cutting ability
deficit for the current term
detonating
diaper pad
diesel lubricating oil
diphenylimidazol
dunhills
earth-fixed axis
Econopower
educational quality
english-reading
essential hemorrhage
extensive communication system
floating preteins
frame representation
freetext
genus buxuss
genus smilaxes
giardium
go up in smoke
Guiméyo
Heteroscelus incanus
horresco referens
isochromatid
job-characteristic
jull
Kiwoga
Koranic
lath house
Living large.
logways
mean fuel-conversion ratio
mechanically operated valve
mechanism of adjustment of balance-of-payments
mis-sequence
neurophage
night clothes
nonchalking
nonpine
painted skin
passing shower
penaeus penicillatus
peripheral address
Pesomin
pivotlike
pneumometry
pollen vortex
reorder signal
retirement policy
Ruselite
sargood
scale of payment
security dump
semi-recumbent
sounding rocket technology
special drawing rights
speculatest
spray dyeing
sprayhole
station-line facilities
stellaria chinensis regel
superplasticisers
tear-drop pattern
thermometer glass
tomosvaryella pernitida
transcortin
transformation record
Trichostrongylosis
twin-spiral water-turbine
type founder
UNCOL
undeposed
unresistings
vesiblilx
vocabulary-dependent recognizer
wave-functions
weak primary