81.Run of the mill 作为形容词短语使用时,run-of-the-mill的意思是平均、平凡或平庸(merely average; commonplace; mediocre),这样的用法在20世纪30年代就有所记载。 run做名词时有许多解释,不过真正能够

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Section A [00:01.25]1. M: You see,a marine biologist is now appearing on the screen. [00:06.84]Yeah.We are now being taken on a tour familiarizing with life in the salty depth [00:14.13]It's an interesting tele teaching lesson. [00:17.08]Q:What are t

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And then, other strange anomalies began turning up. Puzzling finds from other places suggesting Piramesse might lie elsewhere. Show me. He says it was dug up about 30 kilometres from here. He claimes it's from Piramesse. Well, cartouche is certainly

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Business; Face value; Indonesia's Teflon tycoon; 商业;商界精英;印尼的特氟纶巨头; Aburizal Bakrie has survived controversy in business and politics; Aburizal Bakrie在商业和政治的论战中双双获胜; Although Aburizal Bak

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. BP is coming under mounting pressure to step up its response to the country's worst ever oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico. It's coming down from top Obama administration officials who've been dispatched

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Keeping Them Honest now. With yet another troubling case of a charity that is asking you to open your wallet for a good cause but where the money actually, where it actually goes is a completely different story. Now over the past couple of weeks, if

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Im Anderson Cooper. Welcome to Podcast. We confronted a woman who runs a charity that tugs at your heartstrings, but the question is where is the money go? We keeping them honest. We begin tonight, Keeping them Honest with a woman who has been making

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The world this week-Business 一周新闻报道 商业 Bank of America was reported to have reached a settlement with American regulators to pay around 17 billion for mis-selling mortgage-backed securities in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis. 据

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英语四级同形异义词辨析04 1. For a long period of time Latin was the language of Italy. A) liberal B) literal C) literary D) literacy 2. Were looking for highly young people, with a genuine interest in their task. A) intelligent B) intellig

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Congressional investigators say three previously undisclosed defects in a critical safety device may have contributed to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The rig was owned by Transocean and leased by energy company BP. NPR's Peter Overby

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1. The BP executive who angered Gulf residents by saying he wanted his life back is spending the day at a yacht race in England. A BP spokesperson calls it a rare moment of private time for CEO Tony Hayward. 2. A top US envoy is calling for an indepe

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AS IT IS 2015-11-09 Will Brazil's President Be Impeached? 巴西总统会遭到弹劾吗 Observers say recent events have increased the chances of Brazils president being forced from office. The experts are saying that President Dilma Rousseff could

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This is the first year of the list. Spread out over 18 countries and regions, Hurun Research found 1577 individuals with wealth of CNY 2bn, of which 302 were from outside mainland China. Total wealth comes to a staggering US$2.1 trillion, equivalent

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FRANKFURT, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- German carmaker Volkswagen (VW) on Sunday announced that it had ordered an external investigation of the violation of U.S. emission rules. The company made the statement after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (

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Business this week 一周商业要闻 The European Central Bank announced that it will begin its review of the quality of assets held by 128 banks in November. 欧洲央行日前表示:将于今年11月份起对欧元区的128家银行进行资产的

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Books and Arts; The Spanish civil war;Never forget; 文艺;西班牙内战;铭记于心; A dark time in history finally comes to light 一段黑暗史总将真相大白 In need of a truth commission 需要真相委員会 The Spanish Holocaust: Inqu

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Russian politics 俄罗斯政治 Fear and loathing 恐慌与厌恶同在 How the Kremlin is using the law for political ends克里姆林宫如何操纵法律以达政治目的 For generations of Russian leaders, the law has been a tool of state power

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Health officials and civilian specialists are reviewing the health ministry's comprehensive plan to tackle the virus.. As the total number of MERS patients has surged to 30 within two weeks, three cases of tertiary infection have been identified. Tho

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英语中有很多跟鱼或者钓鱼相关的表达,他们会让语言更加生动。今天我们一起来学习一下吧! 1. Everybody else at the party ended up in the swimming pool. But I was a fish out of waterbecause I can't swim. 参加聚会

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有人戏说道,老外眼中的托福写作考试句子分为3个档次,最差的是主动句,较好的是被动句,倒装句等,最好的nominalization(名词化)的句子,这样的句子最学术最适合写论文。那么面对这样的差

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