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by Mignon Fogarty This week in the United States we celebrate Veterans Day, a holiday to remember the end of World War I in 1918, but the name of the holiday brings up a common question: Do we need an apostrophe in the word Veterans? The short answer

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Ten Phobias That Disrupt Our Lives 2 5 Agoraphobia: Fear of open or public spaces People who suffer from this phobia often fear being unable to escape the situation. This is “the most common and the

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 26 January 2006 The anti-corruption group, Transparency International, has blasted the World Bank for loaning Kenya $25 million to fight corruption, following allegations imp

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is apostrophes. When I was in second grade, I lost a spelling bee because I misspelled the word its. I put an apostrophe in when I shouldn't have, and it was a very traumatic moment in my young life. So when listeners

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is tough apostrophe issues. I said it in the last episode about apostrophes, and I'll say it again: there are some confusing situations when it comes to apostrophes. For example, Christine, from Portland, Oregon; Judy

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By Marianne Kearney Jakarta 13 May 2006 Mount Merapi in photo taken from Bebeng villages in Yogyakarta, central Java, May 13 2006 Indonesia has raised the alert level for the Merapi volcano in central

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By Challiss McDonough Cairo 03 February 2006 Ferry

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Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso will meet Tuesday with President Barrack Obama. He will be the first foreign leader to visit the White House since the new administration took office last month. Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso speaks during session a

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(二月)

Cameroonian Develops Mobile Telephone Application To Fight Corruption Baksheesh in Arabic is money offered to crooked officials to get rid of red-tape. And so NoBakchich implies no more bribes. Thats the name of a mobile telephone application conceiv

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The arrests of more than 40 prominent politicians and Jewish leaders in New Jersey and New York on corruption and money laundering charges have sent shockwaves through the close-knit Syrian Jewish community there. Federal investigators in New Jersey

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Researchers witnessed a spectacular fiery(炽热的) underwater volcano explosion and captured it on video. It's believed to be the deepest ocean volcano eruption ever recorded. The undersea Pacific Ocean explosions in May of this year were recor

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By Jim Malone 11 January 2006 Opposition Democrats expect to make gains in congressional elections later this year in part because of a corruption scandal involving once-powerful Republican lobbyist J

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By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 15 June 2007 The long-running corruption trial of former Philippine president Joseph Estrada has ended, and the country now awaits a verdict in the high-profile case. VOA's Heda Bayron reports from our Asia News Center in Hon

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今天我们要学的词是catastrophe。 Catastrophe, 是灾难的意思。 Humanitarian catastrophe, 就是人道主义灾难。缅甸发生强热带风暴后,国际慈善机构乐施会警告说,缅甸已经处于一场公共健康灾难的边缘

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By Roger Wilkison Bangkok 10 July 2007 Thaksin Shinawatra A panel of Thai Supreme Court judges has agreed to hear the first corruption case against former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra next month. From Bangkok, Roger Wilkison reports the court or

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By Anna Ardayeva Moscow 13 July 2006 watch Corruption Russia Russia is gearing up to host the leaders of the worlds most developed countries at a G8 Summit in St. Petersburg. The leaders will get to see the fruit of the Russian energy boom: with oil

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2016s word of the year was Fuuuuuuuuuuck. 2016年的年度热词是Fuuuuuuuuuuck(我勒个擦/妈了个鸡/卧槽自行翻译吧)。 In the past, Merriam-Websters Word of the Year directly corresponded to the major events of that year. 过去,韦氏年

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By Rory Byrne Phnom Penh 20 June 2007 Cambodia's annual donor conference has ended with pledges of almost $700 million in aid, even though donors expressed frustration at continued corruption and poor governance in the country. Cambodia has enjoyed r

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Thailand's army chief vows the military will not use force against protesters in Bangkok. As Ron Corben reports from Bangkok, his comments follow a state of emergency declared by Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej. Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej gestu

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Otago University Neuro-surgery department will not close and Christchurch hospital which has four neurosurgeons will get one more. This news was announced yesterday. Neuro-surgery is brain surgery. Earlier this year, the government said it was too ex

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学英语单词
alceste
ambiguated
annabi
anucleal
aviation barometer
babbit bronze
band shift
BCISC
be soft on sb
Bellavary
besset
big girl pants
c.c.d.
caahexy
caniniform
cathode ray oscilloscoph
centralized pressure-grease system
change in market values
cobalt blue pigment
compression algorithm
constitutional change
Coulmier-le-Sec
deagnostic dictionary
delivers the goods
direct reading totalizer
dyba
essentially non-oscillatory
family dactyloscopidaes
fully depreciated assets
gisella
grutcher
hardware interrput facility
hepatoduodenal ligament
hexakisoctahedron
in dictione
in one's face
indonesian state college of arts (stsi)
inferencer
instantly-acting time-limit resetting system
integral shroud
job offers
keppen
lazy line
lens measure gauge
ligamenta intertransversaria
line solution
liturgie
long-and-short-addendum teeth
lower laterals
luminous fibre
Malc
massed fire
metaphytes
misfires
multi plate angel valve
Muskogeans
nastassja
natural uranium (fuelled) heavy-water reactor
Nicomachinae
nonlinguist
Orobanchin
OS Security
over-restriction
Palagruža, Otok
Parayao
peribuccal
permeability resisting non-shrinkage cement
preliminary sorting
principal pathway
Programme Loan
protein concentrate
re-siting
rhabdom(e)
ripple finish
selected corners
shovel-nosed shark
sienite
silver glance
simple Markovian queue
sky wave delay curves
snowmobiler
somerson
spindle valve
statism
stenchiest
Stigmosan
supercaffeinated
the inflation of language
theory of algebraic equation
thermoreflectance
thermoregulated
trade financing loan
transtech
tripolite
unprogrammatic
uppermost horizontal subdivision
vantaging
velocity adjustment
vrayth
warming pans
Weiss' reflex myopic reflex
Winona County