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n. [航] 气球式降落伞

The stories of Rome 2 [00:01.23]古罗马的故事 2 [00:02.46]These skyscrapers are built of mud there in the Yemen. [00:04.70]在也门,用泥建起的高楼 [00:06.95]They're over 400 years old.The reason they're so tightly packed together is no

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Let us enjoy reading this one of Birbal Stories of Birbal Returns Home. Birbal was in Persia at the invitation of the king of that country. Parties were given in his honor and rich presents were heaped on him. On the eve of his departure for home, a

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The Emperor Akbar was traveling to a distant place along with some of his courtiers. It was a hot day and the emperor was tiring of the journey. Cant anybody shorten this road for me? he asked, querulously. I can, said Birbal. The other courtiers loo

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One day the Emperor Akbar startled his courtiers with a strange question. If somebody pulled my whiskers what sort of punishment should be given to him? he asked. He should be flogged! said one courtier. He should be hanged! said another. He should b

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Birbal arrived late for a function and the emperor was displeased. My child was crying and I had to placate him, explained the courtier. Does it take so long to calm down a child? asked the emperor. It appears you know nothing about child rearing. No

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A farmer and his neighbor once went to Emperor Akbar's court with a complaint. Your Majesty, I bought a well from him, said the farmer pointing to his neighbor, and now he wants me to pay for the water. That's right, your Majesty, said the neighbor.

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One day Akbar and Birbal were riding through the countryside and they happened to pass by a cabbage patch. Cabbages are such delightful vegetables! said Akbar. I just love cabbage. The cabbage is king of vegetables! said Birbal. A few weeks later the

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One fine morning, a minister from Emperor Akbar's court had gathered in the assembly hall. He informed the Emperor that all his valuables had been stolen by a thief the previous night. Akbar was shocked to hear this because the place where that minis

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One day Akbar asked his courtiers if they could tell him the difference between truth and falsehood in three words or less. The courtiers looked at one another in bewilderment. What about you, Birbal? asked the emperor. I'm surprised that you too are

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Global warming is the biggest problem in the world today. Everyone know about it but not everyone is trying to stop it. Many world leaders are more interested in blaming other countries for the crisis. Countries like China, India and Russia say they

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Grammar Girl here. I'm so glad to be back. Today's topic is wordiness. I've heard from a lot of you who have pet peeves about different wordy phrases, and it's a lot of fun to hear what gets under people's skin and why. Here's one example from Lara i

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By Cynthia Kirk IN THE NEWS -July 20, 2002: Global Summit of Women This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS. About six-hundred business, professional and governmental lead

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MILAN, March 17 (Xinhua) -- AC Milan head coach Massimiliano Allegri said Mario Balotelli is an excellent professional and is having the best chance to show his qualities. The former Manchester City striker arrived in January and bagged another brace

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Todd: Christine you're from Papua New Guinea? Christine: Yes, we're a small island in the South Pacific. Todd: And that is near Australia? Christine: Just above Australia. Todd: Like how far is it from Australia? Christine: To Brisbane it's 3 hours b

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snowball snow job 如果天气很热的话,讲几个和冷的东西有关的俗语也许会让人感到舒服一些。好吧,下面我们就来讲由

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BBC Learning English6 Minute English Tribal protest over Indian mine NB: This is not an accurate(精确的) word-for-word transcriptDima: Hi, welcome to this edition of 6 Minute English with me, Dima KostenkoKate: and me, Kate Colin. I am going to be y

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HANGZHOU, July 9 (Xinhua) -- More than 400 Chinese geneticists from home and abroad have gathered in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, over the past three days to discuss genetics studies. At the first Global Conference of Chinese

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Global Trade in Fake Drugs Tops $30 Billion The World Health Organization estimates that 25 percent of medicines sold in poor countries are counterfeit. Monitoring by the World Bank and others suggests the overall global trade in fake and substandard

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WASHINGTON D.C. The 19th International AIDS Conference drew to a close in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Under the banner of Turning the Tide Together, more than 20,000 delegates attended the six-day gathering, where speakers ranged from famous enterta

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The head of the International Monetary Fund says the global economy is improving after a difficult time, but remains fragile. In a Tuesday speech to journalists in Washington, Christine Lagarde warned against complacency or insularity. She said Europ

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-dismase
abounded in
air-turbo lamp
airline network
anseriformes
antidiphtheritic
atmospheric field
Attalea funifera
be like a fish out of water
Bol'shaya Kurba
braking club
branches of knowledge
butcher's (hook)
career prospects
Cefalexium
club drug
COMOs
credit underwriting
defending
diethylene glycol monopalmitate
do a service to
drempt
ecodevelopmental
elecampin
environmental accounts
episulfide
ersatzs
excite-probe experiment
expedition
fasciculately
feel like a million
fire-control system
first - come first - served
first-levels
fit curve
galatas
giggle sticks
gimlet eyes
graecophiles
grass stick
ground-swells
Harpley
hasar
heartaching
historical geotectonics
hydrazine phosphate
Ichihasama
including loading
Kmeson
layout manager
leakage operating current
Longwy
main line shaft
Mangyangjeong
mantuaries
mcgraw
melting platform
mindy
mini-black-hole
model oneself after someone
money order automatic reader
muller mixer
mustaqi
N-methyl-p-phenylene-diamine
nothing to make a song about
oralising
paddlewheels
penetrated
phenol alkylation with olefin
platethrombus
poor diesel fuel
powhead
pretreated
punchedtape
RACW system reactor auxiliaries cooling water system
regular dodecahedron group
restricted distribution
retapering
retransfer paper
scare someone out of his wits
scruting of vouchers
self-loading dumper
silver fuse
sleght
sling lifting chains
soregasms
Speech API
speed-bump
spherical parallelogram
stearate chromium complex
sterilization dose
strawboards
sworn evidence
talk a blue streak
three way tipping trailer
throttle linkage
torrin
tr (transmitter)
upstager
vamps
Venus Bay
water-repellent preservation