- 04 - assume vt.假装;假定,设想;承担;呈现,采取 assumption n.假定,设想;采取;承担;推测;假装 assurance n.保证,担保;确信,断言;信心,信念 assure vt.使确信,使放心(of);向保证 astonish vt.使惊讶,使吃惊 astronaut n.太空人,太空旅行者 astronomy n

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 俞敏洪07年考研英语词汇

Bidding on Online Auctions Jermaine: Wait! You shouldn?t bid on that auction right now. Wait until the last minute. Bethany: This auction has a buy-it-now price of $25 and free shipping. Jermaine: Don?t pay the buy- it-now price. The minimum bid on t

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The ship was brand new and so was Millvina Dean, just two months old, the youngest passenger on the Titanic. And this is your mother and you. Yeah. But 96 years old Millvina, the last living Titanic survivor needs the luck now she had then. I was to

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Bradley Manning, the soldier sentenced to 35 years for sending classified documents to WikiLeaks, now says he wants to live as a woman. Manning issued a statement saying he wants to be known as Chelsea and begin hormone treatment as soon as possible.

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2013(八月)

Remember, my son, you have to work. Whether you handle a pick or a pen, a wheel-barrow or a set of books, digging ditches or editing a paper, ringing an auction bell or writing funny things, you must work. If you look around you will see the men who

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By Kane Farabaugh New York 03 July 2006 Watch MLK Archive report A collection of historical materials belonging to civil rights activist Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. has avoided the auction block ... and found a permanent home in Atlanta. VOA's K

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(125) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(七月)

Small Town's Big Auction Draws Hundreds Along US East Coast The search for a bargain and the hope for an unrecognized treasure draws hundreds of people to a tiny East Coast town each week. Every Wednesday, they descend upon a cavernous warehouse in C

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(九月)

Collectors' Passions Vary from Buttons to Beerbottles For the longest time, people have collected things, just for fun. Butterflies. Buttons. Beer bottles. String wrapped into balls. Umbrellas, matchbooks, model airplanes. You name it, somebody proba

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Mr. Broughton is going to become chairman of a new firm called Sports investment partners which will focus as the name suggests on the investing tens or possibly hundreds of millions of pounds in sports related businesses. Now Martin Broughton is goi

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As ghost stories go, it's frankly a bit weak. Not very frightening and with a happy ending, it doesn't really prove the existence of the supernatural either. But it does show beautifully the enduring popularity of the offbeat and wacky on the interne

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A gargantuan doll. Beginners. The other day, my mother came to visit with a special present. It was something that she had bought at an auction. She often buys presents for my children; she's their grandmother, so she spoils them. It was a special gi

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 11 May 2007 The outgoing Nigerian government is entertaining bids in a last-minute auction on Friday of 45 oil exploration licenses. For VOA, Gilbert da Costa in Abuja reports that the plan is going ahead despite a court ord

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Diane: This is so exciting! Ive never been to an auction before. Martin: Sit down. Its about to start. The auctioneer is on the podium with her gavel and shes ready to start the bidding. Diane: Are you bidding on the first lot? Martin: No, the reserv

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 地道美语播客

今天我们要学的词是fetch。 Fetch, 是指某件物品能够卖多少价钱的意思。最近珠宝开发人员在南非发现了罕见的日落黄钻石。 The Sun-Drop Diamond discovered in South Africa is expected to fetch $15 million when

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

By Catherine Drew London 04 February 2008 The international auction house Bonhams has held a sale of South African art in London that achieved record prices for a number of works. The auction house says this marks a coming of age for South African ar

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2008年(二月)