[地名] 哈默顿 ( 美 )
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今天我们要讲的美国习惯用语是:come down on like a ton of bricks。Ton,是一吨两吨的吨; brick,是砖头的意思。A ton of bricks一吨重的砖头砸下来,想想都让人不寒而栗。Come down on like a ton of bricks,

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(124) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

People who spend hours watching television, sitting in front of a computer screen or playing video games are more likely to suffer a cardiovascular event like a stroke or heart attack. 对世界各地千百万人来说,在电视或电子游戏机前花

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By Doug Levine Washington 28 October 2006 Saxophonist Michael Lington became a fan of American jazz while growing up in his native Denmark. It was a passion so strong that he eventually settled down in the U.S. and launched a recording career. In a

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欣赏独具创意的英语广告!边听边看边学,品味世界名牌的风范,从细微之处感受英美社会的文化。

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- American Andy Roddick eased into third round of the ATP Washington Classic tennis tournament on Tuesday. Roddick, a three-time Washington champion, defeated Slovenian Grega Zemlja 6-4, 6-4 in just 84 minutes. I accompli

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This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I am Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. Air pollution is bad for our health, but scientists say we don't know much about the long-term effects. So researchers in Canada and the Netherlands dec

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Billy Currington是一位美国乡村歌手。他从2003年起至今推出了五张专辑,其中有十支单曲都登上了Billboard的乡村音乐流行榜和乡村之声榜。这七支冠军单曲Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right, Good Directions, Pe

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Study finds mental health issues such as depression and anxiety increase along with exposure Art Chimes | St. Louis, Missouri 15 June 2010 A new study finds that nonsmokers who are exposed to tobacco smoke are more likely to experience psychiatric di

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In recent years, medical evidence has pointed to the harmful physical effects of second-hand smoke. Now, a new study adds to evidence that non-smokers who live or work around smokers can experience psychological harm as well. 近几年来,医学证据

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-When you made your offer, I thought you might be a great lady nurse and faint at the sight of blood, but I see you're made of sterner stuff. -It's definitely the heart. It's almost too quiet to hear at all. -I'm afraid so. -I've been thinking about

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Lady Mary: O'Brien told her Bates can't do thejob properly. Why was he taken on ? Anna:Oh, he was Lord Grantham's batman when he was fighting the Boers. LadyMary: I know that, but even so. Anna:I think it's romantic. LadyMary: I don't. How can a vale

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Assuming their controls are adequate, that would still leave 90% of the wage difference between white workers and ethnic minorities, which was recently estimated to be 14%, unexplained. 假设他们的控制条件相同,那么白种人员工和少数

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英文歌词: We took the long way home, you held my hand, The days so full of all the things we had planned. We walked beyond the green, beyond the day. We shared a dream that i let slip away. I had to find myself. I had to find myself. No use looking

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I only slept for a couple of hours In the back of my buddy's truck I must be runnin' on solar power 'Cause I'm ready to crank back up And the boys are all bangin' on cheap guitars And the girls are all rockin' their bikini tops And that big ball's wa

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WASHINGTON, D.C. Greg Watson has promoted solar power around the world for years. I work in green [technology] for an international development bank, [and] Im always saying, Look, the costs are down, there are all these incentives, really it makes ec

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United States 美国 Working and Race: Colouring in 工作与种族:上色 A trio of labour economists suggest that effort at work is correlated with race. 由三名劳动经济学家组成的团队声称工作效率与人种有关。 GIVEN the lon

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The inter-island ferry between the North and the South Islands at the moment travels between Wellington and Picton. The ferry carries people, cars, trucks and trains (without the engine). It takes about three hours. The government is looking at chang

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Don't you hate hearing that clock on the wall chimming saying its time and Don't you just wish we could stay right here together all day long You know it wouldn't be a crime if we crawled back into bed got as close as we could get Tried to figure out

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The way you stumble in the kitchen Looking for that first cup of joe How you put on your mascara Starin' in the mirror on your tippy-toes And if you wonder why I love you baby I can boil it down to just one thing Chorus Yeah everything Every little t

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aeroplane cloth
alienists
alkali waste
amrubicin
anchor-arm
aversion response
azym
beshite
blackstick
bone-length measurement
bottle pump
bullet dispersion
burley
catlickers
circular functions
controlled study
cubing machine
Danelagh
debt burden
diaphragm type accelerometer
die sinking press
die-hards
diisoeugenol
Dimyctylus
dirigo-motor
Dodworth
double-bassists
drisheens
economics of human resources
electric brush rough grinder
Enox
febrilis urticaria
first-borns
full rides
genus cibotiums
gravat
gull
hierodula (hierodula) bipapilla
indicating needle
individual norm
insurance-backed retirement scheme
internal feed
internunciate
jersey black giant chicken
kindred
kudoasis
loading lever
loan interest rate
longer-term forward contract
low-altitude satellite
lower semicontinuous hull
luggage transport
Maltese crosses
mcgaffin
Mekuria
methyl furoate
negative-channel metal oxide semiconductor
Nervus cutaneus dorsalis lateralis
orange color
Otungbade
oxirenes
pancreozymin(PZ)
paring machine
Paso doble
perfumey
pevere
phosphatidylinositol-4phosphate
pidonia longipalpalis
piscatory
ploppings
pseudotopological
pyogranulomas
radio bearer circuit
reach an impasse
resisting power
rhenium heptoxide
Rosenfors
Rpcinfo
savage customs
Smale's paradox
social resources
speedlimiting device
spike someone's guns
split(ting) carcass
Stenosaurus
straight-through combustion chamber
sulci subparietalis
surefast
sycamore figs
tax collector
tenderisations
thermotolerant fungus
tin plate ink
Tricaime
true stress
tuberculigenous
two-wedge bearing
wil
windshell
work-stations
yaugh
Zurzach