〈动〉无足的
无足目;无鳍目
n. One of certain animals that have no feet or footlike organs;
esp. one of certain fabulous birds which were said to have no feet.

By Greg Flakus Houston 02 August 2007 Officials in Minneapolis are preparing for more sad news as recovery efforts go forward on the Mississippi River, where a major bridge collapsed Wednesday. There are only four confirmed deaths from the incident,

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By Daniel Schearf Singapore 20 September 2006 World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz speaks during annual meetings in Singapore The annual meeting of the World Bank andInternational Monetary Fund has ended after two days of discussions in Singapore, wi

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By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 19 July 2007 Kenya's attorney general acknowledged Thursday that his country has seen what he called an astronomical proliferation of light weapons such as assault rifles and pistols. As Nick Wadhams reports from Nairobi, the

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Pope Benedict XVI waves to faithful during his weekly general audience at St. Peter's square at The Vatican, 17 Mar 2010 Pope Benedict has written to Catholics in Ireland to apologize for the sexual abuses carried out by the clergy in that country ov

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The first man to set foot on the moon has hailed the space race of the 1950s and '60s as an example of peaceful competition between rival superpowers. Legendary U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong spoke at Washington's Air and Space Museum Sunday on the e

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In April 1970, Apollo 13 was scheduled to land on the moon in NASA's bid to further explore the lunar surface. Instead, an in-flight explosion rocked the spacecraft, preventing astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise from landing on the m

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ROME, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Napoli proved unstoppable at home in the Champions League when they beat Chelsea 3-1 at home in the first leg of the final 16 tie on Tuesday. Chelsea took the lead in the 27th minute through Juan Mata, and then Napoli respon

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U.S. authorities have charged a Pakistani-born U.S. citizen with terrorism related charges in connection to the failed Times Square bombing. Thirty-year-old Faisal Shahzad was charged Tuesday in a five-count complaint, one day after he was arrested w

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abandon ship
alternating bending tests
anti-statist
articel
azza
backpaddle
bar-code hairstyle
barminess
basilar meningitis
be on speaking terms
be priced at
blarneying
blood letting therapy
breakdown of marriage
capital authority
carbamyl phosphate synthetase deficiency
casting layout machine
chelura spengler
Chromulina
citrus aphid
cobbra
compact scheme
computable data type
controlled potential electrolysis
cyberservices
damage control plan
data copy
day-fluorosis
de-sensitising
dynamic IP address
Elaeagnus formosensis
elevator(lift) machine room
embarkees
equidistant code
evaporator vapor
father-daughters
fordyces
Free reserves
goureux
guilty verdict
hetman
hot rolling
Huang Xinyan's method
hydraulic relief valve
Ingφya
Jan Mayen
maizer
massively multiplayer online game
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mercurex
micromoto
microprocessor cost/performance
mineral cotton
minimum contribution
Murut
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nomadicity
non-standard quantifier
nonjudgement
noose suture
Northern Ireland Assembly
page traffic
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Pearce-Smith converter
Persian rug
phenoxetol
picks her up
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plant spore
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pleurosternal
price not including tariff
protected bulkhead
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pure procedure code
Ramatirtha
rational-emotive therapy
real estate companies
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reverse posting system
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sheep's-bit
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sterid nuclei
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strong man
summation of temperature
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tax advice
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to-spring
tool sheds
Toronto unit
transmission coefficien
ultraviolet-visible absorption spectrometer
unlike signs
vane flowmeter