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The new financial year has ushered in a new industrial relations system. Under the new regulations, small businesses with a hundred employees or less are no longer exempt from unfair dismissal laws. There are several tax breaks too, the second highes
Adele Announces New Album on Social Media 阿黛尔宣布在社交媒体发布新专辑 Adele will release her latest album 25 on November 20, she announced Thursday on her Instagram page. It is Adeles first album since 2011. 25 is inspired by Adeles
The International Day for Biological Diversity, sometimes called World Biodiversity Day, is a United Nations holiday based on biodiversity issues. It started in 1993 and is held on May 22. This is the date of the Rio Earth Summit of 1992. This was a
Sheldon: You thought the opposite of stupid loser was community college graduate? opposite: 反面的 你认为失败的笨蛋的反义词是,社区大学毕业? -Penny: You know, there are a lot of successful people in this country who are communi
Grammar Girl here. Today guest-writer Bonnie Trenga will help us talk about two kinds of peculiar questions. Isnt that going to be fun! Isn't that going to be fun, is a rhetorical question. Were also going to learn about its cousin. Thats called a ta
Chapter 8 Make Your Partner a Real Partner 第8章 让你的另一半成为你真正的人生搭档 Being a mother has been an amazing experience for me. Giving birth was not. 做母亲对我来说是相当不可思议的经历,但分娩过程却不是
Suppose you are at a birthday party. Everyone has a cell phone. Just as the group begins singing to the birthday girl, someones phone rings loudly and wont stop. You see the noisy phone on the table and ask: Whose phone is this? Someone answers: Its
Many languages shorten words in everyday speech. In English, we shorten a lot of words. One way we do this is with contractions: two words joined with a special mark called an apostrophe. The apostrophe shows the reader where letters have been remove
How to Talk About Preferences Imagine that you are at a restaurant for breakfast. You want something to drink, but you are not sure what. When the server walks over to your table, he says: Let me help. Do you prefer coffee or tea? You answer: I prefe
Bit - This is a contraction of the term Binary digIT, and it is a number in base 2, which means that it can only be a 0 or a 1. Bit Error Rate - The rate of message bits that are in error (an error ra
Codec Codec is a contraction of coder and decoder; a device that encodes analog signals into digital signals, for transmission through a network in digital format, and decodes received digital signals
Email - This is electronic-mail, that is text messages that are sent over the internet. Emoticons - This is a contraction meaning emotional icon that is made with common characters, such as :-) being
Everyday Grammar: Tag Questions Are Easy, Arent They? Have you ever been in a conversation and wanted to check your understanding? That is the time to use a tag question in English. A tag question is a short question added to a statement. The tag inc
AS IT IS 2016-01-05 Social Media Mocks Oregon Protesters 俄勒冈民兵遭推特网民嘲弄 This is What's Trending Today: Over the weekend, protesters with guns took control of a U.S. wildlife refuge in the state of Oregon. They are protesting the
Who Makes Grammar Rules? 英语日常语法:谁制定了语法规则? If you learned about grammar in school, you were probably taught to think about correct and incorrect ways of using a language. Maybe you had to unlearn some grammar patterns that
German Growth Offers Lifeline for Euro As the music booms from his new range of top-end speakers in the testing suite, Dieter Burmester allows himself a little dance. From its headquarters in Berlin, the company that bears his name produces audio equ
分析师担心希腊危机蔓延至亚洲 A Goldman Sachs financial assessment this week predicted Asian emerging markets will experience rather limited direct financial exposure from a Greek default on international loans and exit from the Eurozone
You give me premature ventricular contractions. You make my heart skip a beat. 语音讲解: 单词发音 premature /ˌpreməˈtʃʊə $ ˌpriːməˈtʃʊr/ ventricular /ven'trɪkjʊlə/ contraction /kənˈtrkʃən/ 连词发音 skip a beat /skɪpə
conspire v.阴谋,谋叛 conspiracy n.阴谋 conspirator n.阴谋者,谋叛者 constellation n.星座,星群 consternation n.大为吃惊,惊骇 constituent n.成份,选区内的选
This would mean that the universe was only half the size and age that Sandage believedten billion years. Matters took a further lurch into uncertainty when in 1994 a team from the Carnegie Observatories in California, using measures from the Hubble s