音标:[ә,pɔkә'liptikәl] ;
a. [宗]天启的, 启示论的
s prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom

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Today is December 21st 2012. According to some the Ancient Mayan civilization predicted today would bring about a global doomsday. This idea is gripping the world. To discuss the potential doomsday we have Kristine Larsen, Professor at the Copernican

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英闻天下

Mark Hopkins's award winning documentary Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders, was recently released in movie theaters. The film offers an intimate look into the daunting missions of doctors who volunteer for the international huma

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apathetic adj.冷漠的,无动于衷的 aperture n.孔隙,窄的缺口 apex n.顶点,最高点 aphasia n.失语症 aphorism n.格言(maxim) apiary n. 养蜂场 apiculture n.养蜂

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Hope 生活中一切都充满希望 演唱者:Twista 这首歌是电影《卡特教练》的主题曲,《卡特教练》是根据真人真事改编的电影,讲述卡特教练如何将上个赛季只赢了4场比赛又不好好学习的篮球队变

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CD1-track21 Film Studies:Western Movies 1. What is the main topic of the lecture? A Western movies are made in America and are always about cowboys. B The basic form of the western movie turns up in many forms of movies today. C American western movi

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Obituary 讣告 Eugene Terre'Blanche 尤金特雷布兰奇 Eugene Ney Terre'Blanche, a Boer demagogue, died on April 3rd, aged 69 尤金耐特雷布兰奇,一名布尔人宣传活动家,卒于4月3日,终年69岁 On December 16th 1838, a small

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by Mignon Fogarty I have been deluged with questions about how to pronounce the name of the year. The two main contenders are twenty-ten and two thousand ten. Before the turn of the century, most people pronounced the years by chunking the first two

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The U.S. space agency NASA says this year has been the warmest for the earth in 131 years. And a new study of hot weather in the U.S. released by the National Wildlife Federation predicts that extreme heat will be the norm by 2050. The private enviro

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. When you hear about asteroids close to the Earth, you probably have visions of collisions and extinctions and a post apocalyptic future or of brave space c

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对奥巴马国情咨文演讲的思考 In the early hours of yesterday morning, President Obama gave his last State of the Union address. It's always a difficult speech, with time running out to propose a legislative agenda... Instead, as well as de

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We recently asked people to tell us about the most suspenseful book they'd ever read and they totally delivered. These titles will definitely take your breath away. 最近我们请人们列举出自己读过的最精彩的悬疑小说,人们给我们

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Let us return to original chaos! 让我们重归于元始的混沌! Let us imagine the primordial din, the original vortex! 让我们臆想那本初的喧嚣、元始的漩涡! Let us throw ourselves into the whirlwind which has preceded the crea

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LOS ANGELES, May 15 (Xinhua) -- This weekend tunes out to be a time when the superhero from Thor held on to his crown with a big hammer, grossing a total of 100 million dollars in sales in North America, the box office authority reported on Sunday. H

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1. The Fed is hoping to give the economy a boost. This afternoon, it lowered a key interest rate. Officials thought this will encourage more borrowing amongst consumers which may then lift the sagging economy. 2. State police in New Mexico have remov

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BEIJING, May 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Hollywood box-office smash The Hunger Games is set to be released here in China. Lionsgate has announced the film will open in early June in both dubbed and subtitled versions. The Hunger Games has proven to be a worldw

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So what really happened? Hertzfeld asked. Is it really as bad as it looks? 到底发生了什么?赫茨菲尔德问道,真的有这么糟吗? No, it's worse. Jobs grimaced. It's much worse than you can imagine. 不,更糟,乔布斯一副愁眉

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Space in Cape Town's downtown core and seaboard is limited, and homes are expensive. 在开普敦市中心和海滨的空间是有限的,而住房又是昂贵的。 So the poor have to travel long distances on increasingly clogged roads. 因此,穷

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French political fiction 法国政治小说 What if it were true? 如有雷同,纯属巧合? When truth really is stranger than fiction 事实远比小说离奇 ONE pleasure of the French summer is the publication of political fiction in media us

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And now to Hurricane Maria. The confirmed death toll across the Caribbean rose to 19 today, nearly all of them on the island of Dominica. Reports also began coming in of widespread damage on Puerto Rico, after it took an all-day pounding on Wednesday

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As anyone who has used such a pump knows, compressed air grows swiftly hot, 使用过打气筒的人都知道,受到压缩的空气马上会变热, and the temperature below it would rise to some 60,000 Kelvin, or ten times the surface temperatur

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AAMIH
anear
astlers
atomic dipole moment
automatic exposure compensation
autoteraploid
Aymores
bank club
Barra do Bugres
barycentric refinement
be overcome with fear
big gray wall
blade pitgh
cervicofacial actinomycosis
cesium(element)
comeuppances
concentric curriculum
damm
dow
down comforter
encoun-tered
fashion dual character
female lamb
fibroma of vagina
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finite arc sine distribution
flexion torsion
formaldehyde treating of gasoline
Frademicina
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guitaba
headless computer
herschell effect
highway tunnel
igneous breccia
in league
Indian berry
issue value
Kayumba, L.
lake baykals
landre
leaf-shapeds
Leshukonskoye
local acceptance
mader
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mecador chart
mental health
mixed boundary value problem
moonish
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multi-shaft arrangement
nasaa
nunation
odai
on-delay time
original beam
Osolē Shet'
P. P. von Mauser
palmar flexion crease
paracaine
park rangers
partial carry
perfect competitive market
phrenopathic
pieve
polar sequence
Policy of Protection in Shipping
PONA number
positively oriented trihedral
postmodernising
Pravoberezhnyy
privileged instruction operation
racecadotril
renoviction
reserved for land expropriation
scenic resort
situation analyzer
sky battle
socioeconomic grade
specific inventory
specification configuration
spot fine
Superfund program
sweep pattern
t-boner
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taper-shank drill
telecine studio
tilt-boat
to the west of
trailing switch machine
transverse springs
tricholoma irinums
Trukese
vertical motion
viand
vibrating rod oiler
Voigt model
Vyshnevolotskaya Gryada
whip shitties