torfer (comparative more torfer, superlative most torfer)
(dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Difficulty, trouble.

By Paula Wolfson Bogota 12 March 2007 President Bush says the Iraq regional conference held Saturday in Baghdad was positive, but he is waiting to see if participants turn their words into action. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports the president spoke in Bo

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丹尼尔看医生时,医生说他患了流感,要打针。小孩好像都很怕打针,我们的丹尼尔呢,他也怕吗?往下看就知道了。 Listen Read Learn Doctor 3: What seems to be the problem, kid? Daniel: I've got a sore throat, a runny nose and a headache. Doctor 3: AhHow long

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Oscar Pistorius is the South African Paralympic runner famous for trying to compete at the Olympics. He is known as Blade Runner because of the artificial limbs he uses to sprint. He is also dubbed the fastest man on no legs. Pistorius is the double

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Jennifer Lopez, a.k.a. J.Lo, is a multi-talented and influential superstar. She is an actress, singer-songwriter, record producer, and dancer. She is also a very smart businesswoman and has used her fame to launch her own fashion line and perfumes. S

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT – December 23, 2002: Heifer International By Jill Moss This is the VOA Special English Development Report. One of the biggest problems in developing countries is hunger. An organi

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Elizabeth Lee 20 April 2010 Demographers say the ethnic makeup of the United States is evolving. They expect to see more Hispanics in the 2010 census. And they say the idea of a majority group in the U.S. will disappear within the next few decades. I

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By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 04 January 2006 Israel's Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, has suffered what his doctors call a

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By Nico Colombant Dakar 22 February 2007 Union leaders in Guinea are pursuing a strike that began in early January, demanding that long-time President Lansane Conte name a consensus prime minister. Meanwhile, the government is maintaining a state of

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Doctors Say Millions Worldwide Suffer From Diabetes 世卫组织警告糖尿病将成全球流行病 The World Health Organization estimates that 346 million people globally suffer from diabetes. Most of them live in low- and middle-income countries.

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PRETORIA, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- The second day of paralympian Oscar Pistorius' bail hearing ended on Wednesday without a court ruling on his application. Magistrate Desmond Nair ruled that Pistorius would remain in custody again at the Brooklyn police

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PRETORIA, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Pretoria Magistrate Court on Tuesday postponed Paralympian Oscar Pistorius' bail hearing to Wednesday. Magistrate Desmond Nair ruled that the bail hearing be heard under Schedule 6 Offence of the Criminal Procedure A

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Millions of Americans Suffer From Hair Loss This is Science in the News, in VOA Special English. Im Shirley Griffith. And Im June Simms. Today we talk about hair. We will tell what hair is, how it grows, and some of the main reasons people lose it. H

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Undocumented Syrian Refugees Suffer Deprivation UmSteif Aysa al Fadil, a Syrian mother of eight, gathers khubays, a leafy green vegetable, on the scrap of land she now inhabits outside Kilis in southern Turkey. This plant, which she will boil and fee

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Some Iraqis Profit from Economic Progress; Most Suffer Baghdad's Stock Exchange opened one year after the fall of Saddam Hussein as a private non-profit organization - replacing the government-owned Iraq Stock Exchange. Director Taha Ahmed al-Rubaye

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On the eighth tee, Dannys cell phone rang just as Roy was getting ready to hit the ball. Roy hit another bad shot. He glared at Danny. Danny looked at him again. Im a doctor, Roy. Im on call for emergencies. What if your great granddaughter was in a

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If he says one more thing to me, Im going to hit him, Roy thought. Roy was thinking about Danny, a fellow golfer he had just met today. Danny was a successful orthopedist, 60 years old and quite overweight. Roy was a retired Army officer, 80 and wiry

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By Melinda Smith Washington, DC 17 April 2006 watch Sinus Surgery report Many people who live in climates where there is a change of seasons often experience sinus problems. Sinus pain and headaches c

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 11 April 2007 The International Committee of the Red Cross says the suffering of civilians in Iraq is worsening. In a new report called Civilians Without Protection: The Ever-Worsening Crisis in Iraq , the Red Cross focusses on

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 06 December 2006 House and Senate lawmakers are working to clear the way for final congressional approval of legislation required to implement the U.S. - India Civil Nuclear Cooperation deal. VOA's Dan Robinson reports f

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GQ magazine is marking the 10th anniversary with its annual Man of the Year issue. And this year, there are three separate covers, one featuring actor Vince Vaughn, another with popular recording arti

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学英语单词
Alaharma
aminovaleric acid
anti Semitic
boraxes
boron compound
braided-wire
breathinesses
broach support
bromerguride
bronchitic tropica
by-pass feeder
camera body
chain stitch
channel band range
cliffhangs
Cuban blade
decsystem
degenerative process
delay clause
delphus
draught screen
dutch tulipmania
epidimic
ethyl nitroacetate
expression pattern
exsudation
eye-like gland
far advanced tuberculosis
farrers
fes (final environental statement)
file relative record address
fraternalized
fritted sand
front axle oil capacity
fuladectin
funginous
gauthier
good-faith
Great Basin
Haebang-ri
heterotopic bone
HIFR
high orbit
interior partition
intermediate enrichment stage
joint combined exchange training
kilgus
klystron vision amplifier
liegewomen
lightmaps
Lock the stable door after the horse is stolen.
low cover
low pressure polymerizer
LPSIS (low pressure safety injection system)
Magnolia wilsonii
marco poloes
mechanochemical degradation
megaripple
mellow consistency
mendelian population (dobzhansky 1935)
methoxypropanediol
milk-powder machine
neatifying
neo-calglucon
news envelope
news-man
October Revolution
operation of rolling
Ornithobilharzia
overhead application
practical work
put the squeeze on
quantity scrapped
quantum counter
radial wedging
regulation discharge of waterway
rotated dropping mercury electrode
sakuragi-cho
Sakurajima daikons
Scrofella
septolet
sharpness of separation
shop of traditional Chinese medicines
single spacing
socialist civil law
sortably
sound-emitting fireball
spell-checks
squeaklet
state equivalence table
sternal rib (or sternumal )
stink gypsum
support paper
textile dressing
to play hooky
tunneling cryotron
variolization
vector element
venous engorgement
vial
vitrinertite