音标:[bɪˈkwests] ;
n. 遗赠( bequest的复数形式 ); 遗产, 遗赠物
n. (law) a gift of personal property by will

Making a Will Last week, I got a wake-up call. One of my oldest friends from high school died suddenly in an accident, leaving no will. With no estate planning at all, his assets went into probate and his dependents were left in limbo. My friend was

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Last week, I got a wake-up call. One of my oldest friends from high school died suddenly in an accident, leaving no will. With no estate planning at all, his assets went into probate and his dependents were left in limbo. My friend was a young man, t

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They lived the much easier life of working in the house. 她们在房子里工作, They were the ones most likely to be freed. 享受安逸的生活。 So many mulatto mistresses were left substantial fortunes in the wills of white property owners 她们

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It was time for the annual blood drive. He told his girlfriend, Im going to give blood tomorrow. She said, Dont do that. You could get a disease. He asked, I could get a disease? How could I get a disease? She said, You never know. What if a nurse tr

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Item Nine. Vocabulary. towering, perish, Sumatra, Aceh. More than 160,000 people died or disappeared in northern Sumatra on December 26th 2004, when towering waves battered the coast. Tens of thousands more perished in a dozen countries surrounding t

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It was time for the annual blood drive. He told his girlfriend, I'm going to give blood tomorrow. She said, Don't do that. You could get a disease. He asked, I could get a disease? How could I get a disease? She said, You never know. What if a nurse

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A Vermont man who during his lifetime foraged for wood and held down jobs as a janitor and at a filling station, has left his local hospital and library $6million (?3.95 million). 美国佛蒙特州一位老人的一生非常普通,曾在加油站工

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今天我们要学的词是 noteworthy. Noteworthy意思是值得注意的,值得引起重视的。雅虎公司宣布,年仅37岁的迈耶将担任雅虎公司首席执行官。Her selection is noteworthy both because she is one of only a few wom

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Yet, there is hope. One day a man told me, 然而,他们仍然是有一丝希望的。一天,一个阿富汗人告诉我, My future does not look brilliant, but I want to have a brilliant future for my son. 我的前途并不光明,但是我希

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aptronym
armour belt
boongary
carnation latent virus
catacombs
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closed ended drop wire
coal-dark
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cone-baffle classifier
convergence control
credit export
customary's statement
dacryopyorrhea
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Electroluminescent Phosphors
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established churches
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faciodigitogenital dysplasia
fiery fracture
floating buffer
fluphenaxine
food waste
foreground job processing
genus Heliophila
green coal
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hurricane warning
hydroxystrychnine
inculpatory evidence
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joints through
Kafue River
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laser visa
lightweight main armament
lower clypeus
Marquis de Lafayette
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Microsauria
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nasa (intermational ultraviolet explorer (iue)
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Neu Zauche
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reciprocal treatment
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remorselessly
reverse passive Arthus reaction
safety information
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score points off sb
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seeno
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sesame soy
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special personal property form
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