Goreyesque (not comparable)
Of, or pertaining to, Edward Gorey.
morbid, especially in the vein of Edward Gorey

LONDON, July 11 (Xinhua) -- When the sun withdrew its last drop of sunshine on Tuesday, the ancient Stonehenge was transformed into a carnivalesque fire garden to mark the London 2012 Olympics. Lit up with fire sculpture, the megalithic monuments wer

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(494) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Bob Beamon established himself as the favourite in the 1968 long jump by winning 22 of 23 meets in the pre-Olympic season. He almost met with disaster in the qualifying round. After fouling his first two attempts, he had only one try left. His teamma

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Bob Kerrey was born in 1943, in the Midwestern state of Nebraska. He says he had an uneventful, middle class childhood far removed from the struggles over civil rights and the Vietnam War that were roiling Americans in other parts of the nation duri

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VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we visit the Arabesque festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. This three-week event brings eight hundred

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Baby, you understand me now? If sometimes you see that I'm mad Don't you know, no one alive can always be an angel? When everything goes wrong, you see some bad But I'm just a soul whose intentions are good Oh Lord, please don't let me be misundersto

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VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we visit the Arabesque festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. This three-week event brings eight hundred

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Easy away wins for Barca and Valencia in Copa del Rey MADRID, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- FC Barcelona strolled to a comfortable win away to Deportivo Alaves in the first leg of the third round of the Spanish Copa del Rey on Tuesday night. Goals from David V

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Top flight teams slide at Spanish Copa del Rey MADRID, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- Spanish La Liga clubs withered Thursday in the remaining matches in the first leg of the third round of the Spanish Copa del Rey knockout competition. Athletic Bilbao kicked of

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Real Madrid into Copa del Rey last 16

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MADRID, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Reigning ACB title holders Real Barcelona took their revenge over this season's runaway league leaders and Copa del Rey holders, Real Madrid, by sending their bitter rivals on the first bus home after a thrilling 111-108 wi

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JINAN, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Typhoon Damrey made landfall in east China's Jiangsu province on Thursday night, bringing gales and rains to Jiangsu and its neighbouring Shandong province. Damrey, the tenth typhoon of the year, came ashore near the Chenjia

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MADRID, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- FC Barcelona had few problems in booking their place in the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey on Thursday night. Following a 2-0 first leg win away to Cordoba the reigning Cup holders were always favorites to progress to

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MADRID, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- FC Barcelona and Valencia drew the first leg of their Copa del Rey semifinal 1-1 in Valencia's Mestalla Stadium on Wednesday. Valencia opened the scoring through Jonas Goncalves, only for Carles Puyol to equalize for Barca

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MADRID, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- A storming first half from Atletico Madrid striker Diego Costa was vital as his side assured a spot in this year's final of the Copa del Rey after a 2-2 draw at Sevilla. Atletico Madrid progressed into the final with a 4-3

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MADRID, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Real Madrid set up a possible Copa del Rey semi-final tie against bitter rivals, FC Barcelona as they drew 1-1 on Wednesday night to defeat Valencia 3-1 on aggregate in their quarter-final. Madrid travelled to Valencia wit

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True Dedication! 好投入啊! Mrs. Fortesque was getting more and more worried. 福特斯克太太越来越担心。 Her husband had left for a round of golf early in the morning and by mid-afternoon he still wasn't home. 因为她先生一早出去打

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模仿句子:Newly restored, the film's to be released on DVD and Blu-ray, which gave me the excuse to talk to Robert Henrey who now lives in the United States. 翻译:电影刚刚修复完成,即将以DVD和蓝光的形式上市。这给我机会

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Carry me home, got my blue nail polish on It's my favorite color and my favorite tone of song I don't really wanna break up, we got it going on It's what you gathered from our talk, but you were wrong It's not easy for me to talk about I have heavy h

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Lana Del Rey-Summertime Sadness:复古风情 今年,一个叫拉拉打雷(Lana Del Rey)的金发厚嘴唇女孩儿不走寻常路,正在以光速占领人类音乐排行榜。虽然顶着和雷帝嘎嘎(Lady Gaga)差不多的古怪艺名,

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Club queen on the downtown scene Prowling around at night You're not mean, you're just born to be seen Born to be wild A little party never hurt no one, that's why it's alright You want in but you just can't win So you hang in the lights You're so Ar

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学英语单词
-patin
.sgi
anconeous muscle
annulment of order
Argeles
ash shatt
autocapitalization
barrel cuff
batch formula
beast tale
beneficiary of transferable credit
Benjamin Rush
Biševski Kan.
boorn
Bus slots
calaminaris
cellular logic operation
clay pigeon
co-parenting
coherent electroluminescence de-vice
coliform-bacteria
composite support
condenser tissue machine
cosmological principle
crowfoot cells
CTS (compact tension specimen)
daisy-chain interrupt
day-to-night
degradation theory
disprofessing
drive a wedge into
echiquier
ehrlich's teagent
embrace the suck
English language
factory engineer
fetterings
fractionating rectifying tower
go against one's conscience
gun mount shield
habitation module
hard heading
have the length of someone's foot
icterometers
infamed
inhomogeneous broadening
it is worth
Kaingaroa Harb.
Kambuj
Kennydale
kneeclinic
langoustes
marlinspike
mental poverty
mixture chamber
mochizuki
multimillion-dollars
multivalued mapping
output from decision-assisting models
p-mbp
pauci-
pentane diamine
Physalopteriasis
picture synchronizing signal
plain suction dredger
policy of controlling foreign trade
protection against rust
pullulans
pygophora lepidofera
reckoned without
remnant value
repeat glass
reptiledom
responsive time constant
ring yoke
Screen Actors' Guild
seek error
seeno
self-selecting v scan
slaking residue
sludge shredder
spongy porosity
SRP (scram rod drive mechanism program)
straddle type rod
strewine
subcostalgia
surgical suture needle
tax undercharged
terminal reaction
terrorist
test results
towit
treacle sponge
twin-strand mill
United States Law of State Immunity
uticillin
vicarious species
wagoneer
wash throughly
Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin method
white collar crimes
Yinchiao