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to hold water water off a duck's back it makes my mouth water 这一课里我们再要讲两个和水,也就是和 water 这个字有关的词汇。第一个是 to hold water。 To hold water 按字面

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This is AP News Minute. A judge has told a Michigan sports doctor accused of sexually assaulting women and girls, I just signed your death warrant. The remarks from judge Rosemarie Aquilina came as she sentenced Larry Nasser to 40 to 175 years in pri

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电影词典 time code 时间码 美国俚语 piss sth. away 把......浪费 e.g.1My father thinks I'm pissing my life away because I'm in a rock band. 因为我在摇滚乐队里,我父亲认为我那是在浪费我的生命。 2I could have gone

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Many English seaside towns seem as if they are stuck in a time warp, in an era when families and caravans full of factory workers would converge on the shore for fun and frolics. 英国许多海滨小镇仿佛被卡在时间隧道里了,至今仍然停

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今天我们要学的词是cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency加密货币。Switzerland's government has requested a report into the risks and opportunities of launching its own cryptocurrency. 瑞士政府要求有关部门就启用自己的加密货币的

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She went to the casino. A casino is a gambling house. People gamble in a casino. They take a chance with their money. They hope they will win. Sometimes they do. But usually they lose. It was her birthday. She took $100 to the casino. She went to the

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March 19th, 2003 - For the second time in a dozen years, an American-led coalition launches a war against Iraq. Cruise missiles and precision guided bombs are aimed at Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein near the capital, Baghdad. President George W. Bush

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From today adverts promoting gambling will be allowed on British Television screens, ads for arcades, bingo halls, casinos and bookmakers can be shown after the 9 p. m watershed for the first time. Thanks to provisions in the 2005 Gambling Act only

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HEALTH REPORT - Drugs for Parkinson's Disease Linked to Urges to Gamble By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 I'm Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Health Report. Parkinson dise

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英语作文 Directions: Wealth brings happiness. (财富带来幸福). In this part, you are to write within 40 minutes a composition of about 200 words about the The Relationship between Wealth and Happiness. You can agree or disagree, completely or partial

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今天我们要学的词是addiction。 Addiction, 上瘾。Alcohol addiction, 喝酒上瘾,gambling addiction, 赌博上瘾。现在有很多人上网玩游戏上瘾。The first in-patient treatment center for Internet addiction has opened in Wash

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今天我们要学的词是 unethical. Unethical 不道德的。美国大学联赛三月疯狂拉开战幕,不少公司同事间都有赌球的行为。反动这种做法的人认为,Office gambling is unethical even if it doesn't violate corpora

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今天我们要学的词是cold turkey。 星期四是感恩节,我们也来说火鸡。不过,cold turkey, 可不是冷火鸡的意思,而是指突然停止某些已经成瘾的坏习惯。He quit heavy drinking cold turkey, 他没靠任何帮助

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今天还是要继续讲在2000年的大选后的争持中,新闻界常用的两个习惯用语。当2000年的大选尘埃落定乔治W.布什赢得最终胜利之后,副总统戈尔虽然败阵,却落落大方地在白宫边上的副总统办公

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今天我们要学的词是high-rolling。 High-rolling, 是指生活奢侈、舍得花钱。那么,high-roller, 当然就是舍得花钱的人了。如果是赌博,那就是下大赌注的豪客。The Las Vegas casino industry has long rolled ou

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August 24th, 79 B.C. Catastrophe strikes as the long-dormant Mount Vesuvius erupts east of Naples in what's now Italy. Volcanic ash buries the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, kill an estimated 20,000 people. 1992Hurricane Andrew smashes into

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Have you ever had a punt? I was brought up to believe that you make your own luck but I admit that I buy the occasional lottery ticket. I have won a million pounds but only in my dreams. The odds are high and the money I spend on tickets is worth it

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Freedom Choice and Responsibility自由 选择 责任I love choices. 我爱选择。 I love to walk around in bookstores-not because I can buy all the books,我喜欢在书店里徜徉,不是因为我能买下所有的书,but because I could buy

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台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是: We now know that many of the major social media companies hire individuals called attention engineers who borrow principles from Las Vegas casino gambling, among other places, to try to make thes

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