John Smith, 56, died earlier this week. He died of a heart attack. He didn't show up to work on Monday. His boss called his home phone and cell phone. There was no answer. On Tuesday, his boss called again. Again, there was no answer. Then his boss c

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Topics: Famous Americans - Jim Thorpe; United Code of Military Justice Common Crimes; pre-paid cell phones; abbreviation versus acronym; a matter of form Words: intramural team hurdle pentathlon decathlon amateur posthumously absent without leave des

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NEW YORK, March 29 (Xinhua) -- New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced on Tuesday that his office will undertake a thorough review of ATT's acquisition of T-Mobile for potential anti-competitive impacts on consumers and businesses. Schn

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有没有遇到过这样的人:拿着手机在地铁里打电话,声音还特别大,搞得旁边的人想不听都不行。现在才知道,这样的人全世界都有,而且他们有名字的哦,叫做stage-phoner。 A person who engages

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The battle wages on as cruel as it can be swords slashing on the shields make sparks that fill the air no holds barred here I nearly lost my ring my friends are on the ground it's time for me to hit [Sendor] My arms get stronger and stronger with eve

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Simon: Yeah, hey Todd, I have one complaint. Why can't I never reach you on the phone? 西蒙:嘿,托德,我要抱怨一下。为什么你的电话总是打不通? Todd: Ah, I know, I'm really bad with my phone. I hate the phone. I can not st

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Namaste. Good morning. 早上好! I'm very happy to be here in India. 很高兴今天来到印度。 And I've been thinking a lot about what I have learned 过去的十一年,我带着《阴道独白》和V-Day运动, over these last particular

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Two bank robbers were talking. You know, said Jesse, we used to write, 'This is a stickup' on a piece of paper. Then the bank teller gave us the money. But times have changed. We should use modern technology. For our next job, you give the teller you

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Viruses prosper by hijacking the genetic material of a living cell and using it to produce more virus. 病毒掠夺活细胞的基因材料,用来制造更多的病毒,从而大量生长。 They reproduce in a fanatical manner, then burst out in

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Compared with the new eukaryotes the old prokaryotes were little more than bags of chemicals, in the words of the geologist Stephen Drury. 地球已经朝着真正有意思的行星迈出了第一步。与新的真核细胞相比,旧的原核细胞借

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We are all the result of a single genetic trick handed down from generation to generation nearly four billion years, 我们都是同一遗传戏法的结果。那种戏法一代一代地传下来,经历了差不多40亿年, to such an extent that

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Without the cell, they are nothing more than interesting chemicals. 没有细胞,它们只是有意思的化学物质。 But without the chemicals, the cell has no purpose. 但要是没有这些化学物质,细胞就毫无用处。 As the physici

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释义: give (somebody) a call (ring, buzz) (给某人)打电话 give 后面如果加上某个行为名词,变成 give sb a (an)+名词的形态就表示做(某事)。在 give sb a call (= call sb)中可以看出,动词的名词形态会变

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释义: get somebody (sth) back 拿回,找回 get sb (sth) back 表示重新找回某物,是拿回,找回的意思。另外,get back to+后面如果加地点的话就会变成回到。 例句: She wants to get her boyfriend back. 她想找回

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释义: turn and 转身做某事 turn 最基本的含义为转身等转变方向的行为。因此 turn and (to) +动词表示转身做某事。 例句: He turned to leave, then turned back suddenly. 他转身离开,随后突然又转过身来。

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He almost forgot how to drive over here While he tried to survive a year over there Some young punk just flipped him off And ran him off of the road He just turned 22 last week In the back of a strike somewhere in Tehran He never thought he'll live t

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But those are dots on a screen for you; what exactly does that mean? 但是那些你们看起来是屏幕上的点;到底有什么意义呢? Well basically that means that this protein is changing from the sensitive cell to the resistant cell. 基本

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Hey Don, do you like asparagus? Yep, I love it Yael, can't get enough. But don't you notice there's a certain problem after you've eaten it? Problem? Yeah, everybody knows that eating asparagus can cause a rather unpleasant smell in your urine. I did

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How to stay away from cell phone? 如何戒掉手机Sever social mediaties. 切断社网可可电台We love hitting up Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to keep tabs on friends and relations. 我们痴迷于浏览Facebook,Twitter和Instagram来和朋友

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