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vt. 恢复自由；释放；给予公民权

v. grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude

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Finance and Economics 财经 Mobile Money in Africa: Transfer market 非洲的资金流转：转账市场 Crowded field, different player. 行业饱和，新人登场。 With her phone in one hand and a live chicken in the other, Brenda Deeomba comes

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ECONOMICS REPORT - Franchises

ECONOMICS REPORT - Franchises By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, January 09, 2004 This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Success does not come easily to a small business. T

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好莱坞五家电影公司争抢007电影版权

Five studios are currently having the ultimate death match (well, it's not as bloody as that...not yet, at least) for the rights to James Bond. 五家电影制片公司正在展开最终的死亡竞赛（好吧，至少现在没有那么血腥），来

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宜家的创始人英格瓦.坎普拉德出生在瑞典南部的斯马兰。 IKEA is a Swedish furniture and home products retailer that has stores all over the world. It is famous for well-priced flat pack furniture that customers assemble at home.

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Private tuition 私人补习 Premium economy 优质经济舱 Private education is becoming more egalitarian 民办教育变得越来越平等 WHEN Charlotte Hobbs decided to teach her 11-year-old pupil about the imaginary maths needed to work out the

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经济学人:公司理论:协议是怎样构成的(1)

But Messrs Grossman and Hart identified a next-best solution: the party that brings the most to any venture in terms of non-contractible effort should own the key assets, 但是，格罗斯曼和哈特认同了一种次佳的解决方案：在不可合

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Going Bigger and Bolder with Summer Movies

When it comes to blockbusters, bigger and bolder is Hollywood's plan for this summer. Movie studios are counting on new and improved sequels to make up for last summers poor showing at theater box offices. Disney and Marvel have had a great start wit

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McDonalds Puts High-Tech on its Menu 高科技融入麦当劳 McDonald's recently celebrated its 50th birthday, and the fast food giant is planning to make its second half-century as revolutionary as

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At least three people were killed today when a car bomb exploded near a bus for pilgrims in the Shiite holy city of Najaf. Insurgents are blamed for dozens of other deaths in the Iraqi cities in the run-up to tomorrow's national elections. Hundreds o

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How did the '80s become a punchline?

How did the '80s become a punchline? Give anything 20 years and it'll start to look like the makings of a joke. And so -- welcome back to the '80s, or, as LCD Soundsystem's Losing My Edge put it, borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered '80s. You don'

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经济学人:迪士尼星球大战迪士尼和神话创造

Disney Star Wars, Disney and myth-making 迪士尼星球大战,迪士尼和神话创造 How one company came to master the business of storytelling一个公司如何成为兜售故事的商业传奇 FROM a galaxy far, far away to a cinema just down

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伊顿公学在中国推出在线课程

Eton College is going to launch online lessons for schools in China. 伊顿公学将在中国部分学校推出在线课程。 From this autumn, the leading UK independent school is going to provide classes in leadership to Chinese students, using li

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NBA Imposes Player Lockout

The National Basketball League has formally locked out its players after they failed to reach an agreement with the owners on a new collective bargaining agreement. The lockout took effect early Friday morning when the previous labor deal expired. NB

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Pirates 4 premiere date set

BEIJING, April 19 (Xinhuanet) -- The fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise will hit Chinese theaters on May 20, as part of a coordinated global premiere of the latest installment of the hugely popular Walt Disney series. P

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HP quarterly profit plunges 90 percent

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) on Monday reported that its profit in the most recent quarter fell more than 90 percent with sales also declining. In the company's fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 ended Oct. 31, the company p

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经济学人:中国汽车贸易汽车经销商如履薄冰

Business: China's motor trade Driven to the brink 商业：中国汽车贸易，逼入绝境 Slowing car sales are a threat to shaky dealerships. 汽车经销商如履薄冰，销售放缓雪上加霜。 China's car market used to run like a high-rev

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经济学人:东北部交通轨道变化

Transport in the north-east 东北部交通 Track changes 轨道变化 The north-east is being hobbled by lousy transport 交通不便，蹒跚而行的东北部 MOST advertisements on public transport attempt to sell something. Travellers on the Lon

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网络口水战战火蔓延到现实世界

During this summer vacation, battle lines have been drawn in the worlds of popular culture and politics, with tempers *flaring, insults flying and general hatred *spewing out all over the place mostly onto smartphone and computer screens. 今年暑假，

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I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique. - one of the most memorable quotes from Sir Christopher Lee. 我认为演戏是直觉、想象力和创造能力的混合。作为

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