音标:[kəˈmɪʃənəz] ;
n. 专员( commissioner的复数形式 ); 长官; 委员; 政府部门的长官
n. a government administrator
n. a member of a commission

每期节目一话题,让英语磨练耳朵的同时学到更多有益的小知识,丰富知识的同时受益于生活。 Time-management tips 时间管理技巧 No two tasks ever hold the same importance. Always prioritize. 没有两项工作是同

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AS IT IS 2014-09-28 Land Disputes Lead to Violence in Uganda 乌干达居民因土地纠纷导致暴力行动 More than 700 residents crowd onto a small piece of land in Rwamutonga, a small village outside Hoima. The people say they have been unfairl

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272. The Privateers. 272.武装民船 No British fleets could keep the privateers from leaving port. 没有哪支英国舰队可以阻止美国的武装民船出海, They swarmed upon the ocean and captured hundreds of British merchantmen, some o

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Explanation: Its important for Americans to know not only who their U.S. Representative is, but also how he or she is representing them. Americans need to know how their representatives are voting and whether or not those votes accurately (or correct

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1Later when the anger of King Xerxes had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what he had decreed about her. 2Then the king's personal attendants proposed, Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king. 3Let the k

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补充: FAQ - An acronym for Frequently Asked Questions. FAQs are online documents that list and answer the most common questions on a particular subject. Federal Excise Tax - A 3% tax mandated by t

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Bush: Pre-9/11 Document Did Not Include 'Time and Place of an Attack' Paula Wolfson President Bush says he received no information prior to September 11, 2001, indicating a terrorist attack on America

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The White House says the resignation of President Obama's special adviser on green jobs, Van Jones, came because Jones had decided the agenda of the president is bigger than any one individual. Jones stepped down from his position with the White Hou

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Several European countries are stepping up water testing after poisonous red sludge from a Hungarian aluminum plant reached the Danube River today. The BBC's Nick Thorpe reports on the heightened alerts around Europe's second largest river. Attention

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Syrian activists say the army and defected soldiers are clashing in the north and south of the country. NPRs Peter Kenyon reports observers say more than 60 people have been killed just since Friday. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Righ

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The Cornish voter, who was an honest fellow, and would not have thought himself entitled to any reward, 康沃尔这位选举人是一位诚实的人,断不敢认为自己配得上此等殊荣, but for such a torrent of acknowledgments, thanked t

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Good Morning In what seemed an act of self-effacement on the part of Radio 4 last Wednesday Justin Webb told listeners affected by the stormy weather to tune into their local radio stations! Well, here I am in the studios of BBC Radio York. But only

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Money-market funds货币市场基金Faking the buck伪造面值America sets new rules for a common short-term investment美国针对常见短期投资设定监管新规IT IS a huge investment class: a 2.8 trillion one, to be exact. And it had long be

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ECan is short for Environment Canterbury. This is a regional organisation which has been responsible for water, clean air, buses, and many other matters which affect our environment. Every three years, we have voted for people to be on the council of

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Leaders 社论 The European Commission 欧盟委员会 Lagarde for president 拉加德或将成为欧盟委员会掌门人 If ever Europe needed a competent reformer with new ideas, it is now 如果欧盟需要一个有想法的领导者,就趁现在

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School reform 校制改革 How to tame a Trojan horse 如何驯服一只害群之马 Extremism in Birmingham schools poses a conundrum for reformers 摆在改革者面前的难题是伯明翰学校中的极端主义 PETER CLARKE, who used to spot ter

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Lighthouses The first navigational lights in the New World were probably lanterns hung at harbor entrances. The first lighthouse was put up by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1716 on Little Brewster Island at the entrance to Boston Harbor. Paid for a

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LAGOS, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Nigerian government on Wednesday confirmed the outbreak of bird flu in 11 states. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Akinwumi Adesina made the disclosure at an emergency meeting on Avian Influenza with state

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Europe Charlemagne A democratic nightmare 欧洲 查理曼大帝 一个民主化的梦魇 Seeking to confront the rise of Eurosceptics and fill the democratic deficit 根治疑欧主义,弥补民主缺陷 TO ITS critics the European Union was born

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The European Commission 欧盟委员会 Friends in the right places 处在正确位置的朋友 The British are down, the Germans and east Europeans are up 英国势力不在,德国和东欧的势力崛起 I AM French, I am deeply French, but here

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学英语单词
aided laying
alienate from
aluminithermic weld
amoinder
animadvertiser
application instituting proceedings
bromomethylation
burial custom
centre of a rope
cockpunched
coding capacity
Codonopsis argentea
comb neophoscope
compact tension specimen
Craspedia
cross-correlation method
crystal bomb
cutter-compensation
cyan aniline
dadad blamed
diazoic acid
doves
em leader
equiform geometry
Erzgebirge (Krušné Hory)
esroes
focal axis
font baseline extent
force placement method
formamidines
full powers
gaufferings
general apportionment
gomophioside
gray solodic soil
Greenberg's method
gregaritic
guaracha (cuba)
heat distortion temperature
hipdom
hostile-weapons location system (howls)
hybrid encoder
hysterotrachelectasia
ies
Indocalamus latifolius
land sites
langern
lea count-strength product(lcsp)
loud-moutheds
macrodirectory
magistra
mammoplasty
mangostan
Mannich condensation
manure loader
Masharbrum
mellivorous
mill furnace cinder
milled border
mistura magnesiae et asafoetidae
Mladenovac
no-growthers
non-contractual claim
noncylindricity
oilcanning
paleomagnetic chronological scale
pennar
peptogaster
philistias
pittious
plasmaisogamous
political ties
postintervention
pressure gradient effect
programmable keyboard
Propoquin
quadriceps muscle of thigh
radio bearer circuit
Radziejów
ram piston
release guard sequence
roentgen per hour at one meter
rumohr
seismic survey vessel
selective tracing routine
shyish
side relief valve
sintayhu
SLCG
some ... or other
sound-insulating structure
speed-freaks
taut-wire apparatus
Teller mine
third triad
transient modulation
vulturine
wet-on-wet painting
willings
windward area
wing case
wood agate