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【短对话】 1. W: What a wonderful performance! Your rock band has never sounded better. M: Many thanks. I guess all those hours of practice in the past month are finally paying off. Q:What does the man mean? 2. M: I can't decide what to do for

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Speer. Less than a week after reports surfaced about AIG's employee bonus program, House lawmakers have passed the bill to recoup the money through targeted taxes. NPR's Audie Cornish has more. House Republican

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By Greg Flakus Albuquerque, New Mexico 14 July 2007 The part of U.S. history commonly called The Wild West or Old West, especially the colorful characters from the 19th century who were often at odds with the law, continue to fascinate people around

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Lets look at a specific situation from todays sports news. 我们来从今天的体育新闻中看一个具体的例子。 How many of you have heard at least one person say that LeBron James made a mistake in choosing Miami? 你们有多少人听见至

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Luckily Hutton had a Boswell in the form of John Playfair, a professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh and a close friend, who could not only write silken prose butthanks to many years at Hutton's elbowactually understood what Hutton wa

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In 1785, Hutton worked his ideas up into a long paper, which was read at consecutive meetings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. It attracted almost no notice at all. It's not hard to see why. Here, in part, is how he presented it to his audience: 17

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It was while puzzling over these matters that Hutton had a series of exceptional insights. From looking at his own farmland, he could see that soil was created by the erosion of rocks and that particles of this soil were continually washed away and c

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Yet almost singlehandedly, and quite brilliantly, he created the science of geology and transformed our understanding of the Earth. Hutton was born in 1726 into a prosperous Scottish family, and enjoyed the sort of material comfort that allowed him t

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5 THE STONE-BREAKERS 5 敲石头的人们 At just the time that Henry Cavendish was completing his experiments in London, four hundred miles away in Edinburgh another kind of concluding moment was about to take place with the death of James Hutton. T

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With Mason refusing to survey the mountain, the job fell to Maskelyne. So for four months in the summer of 1774, Maskelyne lived in a tent in a remote Scottish glen and spent his days directing a team of surveyors, who took hundreds of measurements f

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academic intelligence
Aconitum alpinonepalense
adjusting mechanism
aggregometry
Al Kuwait
asymptotic plane
awrong
axis-cylinder
Badiotella
balled plant
barnpot
benzpiperilone
Bromanautine
canistel
canterville
carbonized beer
caucus-goers
circumplex
classification of economic units according to sectors
continuous fin welder
contour polishing wheel
cornu majus
dibsi (dibse)
disabuse
dock head
double end locomotive
dry low nox combustor
Duwaynah
electric slow cooker
enpowder
entagenic acid
entoiling
estimated weight
ethanolamine phosphotransferase
excitation-regulating winding
facies fibularis
farmers' family
fibre science
fidgeter
frequency modulation generator
fresnel law of reflection
gas anesthetic
germinated
glyniss
hectocotylization
hose clamps
hydraulic plywood press
hyper text markup language
impresso
inert gas smothering system
jointing plate
jovenes
keto-dibasic acid
laccetti
Lapscheure
leg opener
level telescope
load-line draft
LRPA
Maikala Ra.
metal wool
minigolfer
moidering
multilists
multiple anomaly syndrome
N-isobutylaniline
natrium glycocholicum
nonskater
nordique
norma ventralis
one two
overheat
parallel-sideds
percentage saturation
perceptual skill
pipturus arborescens
poesis
Portsmouth ball valve
post-edit
radio-trackings
ramus sinister arteria hepaticae propriae
range conversion
rubidium pertantalate
saline method
salt-marsh plain
salvelinus namaycushes
sanitary convention
simulated air combat
spirillar
starting conditions
STD bus
Stephensburg
Strychnos cathayensis
surface finish measuring appliance
TDTL (transistor diode transistor logic)
terminal alveolus
torsion ideal
trait-like
universal plotting sheet
Ust'-Ulagan
wavelength shift
zero-surface