音标:['æmbɪdʒ] ;
n. 模棱两可, 迂回的说法, 间接的说法
n. a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
词型变化:名词复数形式 : ambages
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Beginner A: how old is Keith? B: hes 21. how old is James? A: hes a year older than Keith, but he looks younger. B: hows your father? A: hes fine. He retired last week. Its turning poing in his life. Now he can relax and enjoy his retirement. B: he

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While on an expedition in western China twenty years ago, some explorers discovered the mummies of a tall, red-haired people. Though estimated to be nearly 4,000 years old, the corpses were quite well

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haven't seen you for ages.我好久没见到你了。 age有物品或人的年龄的意思,上面age后加了s,是表示很长时间的意思。 What is the age of this building?这建筑物有多少年历史了? age也指人生的某一时期或年龄段。例如: I used to be a football player when I was

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Mary had a little lamb (Excerpt) Mary had a little lamb Little lamb Little lamb Mary had a little lamb Its fleece was white as snow Everywhere that Mary went Mary went Mary went Everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go It followed her to sch

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Once there was a naughty lamb. His mother always loved her child so much that she worried about the safety of the child. His mother always warned him, Be careful! You must not go into the forest. Wild animals live in there. They may threaten you. Som

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Once upon a time, there was a huge forest with many tresses of all kinds. In that forest lives a mother goat and her little lamb. They were happily living in the forest. The lamb was very naughty. The mother goat found it difficult to manager her chi

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The Internet and social media are proving to be a double-edged sword. While they expand the possibilities of commerce and information-sharing, they are also used by terrorists(恐怖分子) to recruit members, to promote hate, and even to reveal ways

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By Peter Heinlein United Nations 26 January 2006 Academy award-winning actress Nicole Kidman has taken on a new job, as a United Nations goodwill ambassador. Kidman will work to advance women's rights

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[全屏观看] 点击右键- 另存为 可保存这个Flash影片 Description: Age of Japan is an incredible puzzle entertainment, which shines with unique graphics. All 40 game levels are rendered with Japane...

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[全屏观看] 点击右键- 另存为 可保存这个Flash影片 Description: Age of Japan is an incredible puzzle entertainment, which shines with unique graphics. All 40 game levels are rendered with Japane...

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 22 May 2006 The name Zamboni is well known to fans of hockey and ice skating. The Zamboni resurfacing machine makes an appearance on ice rinks between the periods of a h

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By Kate Woodsome Phnom Penh 09 January 2006 The World Bank has warned Cambodia that recent arrests of government critics could have a chilling affect on potential foreign investment. But pressure from

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Computers around the world are connected in an extensive communication system called the Internet. Transcript of radio broadcast: 17 June 2008 VOICE ONE: I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Tod

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By Kari Barber Banjul, Gambia 21 February 2007 In a continent suffering from the AIDS epidemic, Gambian President Yayah Jammeh's claims of a cure for the disease are alarming public health workers already struggling against faith-healers dispensing

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By Daniel Schearf Beijing 16 June 2008 The U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency is in Beijing for discussions expected to focus on Iran's uranium nuclear program. As Daniel Schearf reports from Beijing, China has been reluctant

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The same space seems shorter as we grow older, in youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the day. Apprehension is vivid,retentiveness strong, and our re

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Swimmer Dara Torres of the United States has tasted Olympic victory. But this year, the 41-year-old mother is carrying more than aspirations for a gold medal on her shoulders - she is carrying the hopes of a generation of athletes and fans. Torres w

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16 Mary had a little lamb (Excerpt) Mary had a little lamb Little lamb Little lamb Mary had a little lamb Its fleece was white as snow Everywhere that Mary went Mary went Mary went Everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go It followed her to

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今天我们要学的词是gambit。 Gambit, 指精心策划,带有风险的策略。美国总统奥巴马宣布,联邦政府计划购买一万七千六百辆美国造的油耗低的车和混合动力车。分析人士说, This is the White Hou

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Listen to March 3rd 2010 for background to this. The Minister of Transport, Steven Joyce, said there will be changes for young drivers to improve road safety. We already know that the government has planned to raise the driving age to 16 but this is

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aerial part
aeriferous
against all odds
al ghafat
be at someone's nod
Bemdorf
bitumen(bitument)
brake side-slipping
carmellini
cenoscelis lateralis
circumferential-seam
collective agreement
coma vigile
commuter boat
concatenary
contact force (contact pressure)
cortico-hypothalamic
covariant theory
CPRE
cresskill
cuff valve engine
data subscriber terminal equipment
DCPM
detached house
dual coat plate
Dzheltula
electro-osmosis dehumidification
enzytol
escaping gas
eugeniuss
fingerprint men
first-angle-method
frame powder
genus cynoscions
glycerin-alpha-dibromohydrin
goniopora somaliensis
hero worshipping
hunt or hunting
hydrops spurius
Hypocrea
Indianoid
ineffectually
intercoupling
joint sales
junge model
Lactuca tatarica
laundering and dyeing shop
Louango
loudness balance
mechanism of resistance
moon landing
Mosal'sk
nakharar
non-performances
out of my head
parallel-chord truss
pars nervosa
pattern number
physiognomer
piezoceramic accelerometer
pinocytotic vesicle
plug hatch
primary buying motive
programming knowledge base
protopyramid
quarrelings
quasi sinusoidal vibration
quick-turning
rag shaker
ramus dexter (a. pulmonalis)
redefects
reducing mechanism
regathers
remote-reading instrument
reverbering
Rhododendron xiaoxidongense
roofing tack
scouting map front
sea legs
second-stage cooler
secondary case
section property
sehs
sharkdom
shmegeggies
shrub vegetation
silage ladder
solubilisation
spurious revenues
steam by-pass system
stromer
technical economy
the garter
tiformin
time field calibration
true fluidity
unearthed voltage transformer
universal pulline machine
unprohibited
viceregents
white fritillary