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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'Phags-pa
accelerator foot rest
accommodation ladder
accounting profit
active trustee
Akaska
alkali embrittlement
allelomorphs
antherigona (acritochaeta) oryzae
anti-jamming unit
antiskid differential
Anyuyskiy Khrebet
arc jet engine
Arginotri-B
Avlida
Basket warrant
bubble sorts
canulating
care labels
cis-double bonds
condenser shell penetrations
control chart for range
cost money
cynolyssa
dagg
darunavir
Divinhe
dniprorudne (dneprorudnoye)
drawing-in plan
electrochromic behaviour
fader amplifier
fixed fuel tank
garden rocket oil
geeked out
general declaration
glass ceilings
hanky pankies
harazd
Hegelians
hegemonism
Henry Draper system
high pressure axial fan
Hoengdo
hostmasks
hyperbolists
imaginary creature
imipramine
Indian carp
integrated database management
Iselersheim
jerrymanders
job-offers
Karistos
light aging
liquid-solid interface
Listera pinetorum
loop galanometer
low-riser
low-voltage switch gear
lunar lander
master control set
maximum paving thickness
molecular hydrogen chemistry
mooti
multivariate master equation
near-ir communications system
noncoherent unit
on the border of
Oxyphenon
pectoral septum
pin-curled
pointed tip
post-office order
prescores
primordial hypha
Red Sea Light Company
Red-Fox alloy
reflector spotlight
ridaforolimus
ring ore body
rush repair job
self curing binder
set right
specimens
stage collar
standard steel
Staphyolysin
sun gear
supervisory service
swear a charge against
TCU
Technetium(99mTc)Generator
the doldrums
thirstier
top of slope
tough lead
trichlorobutylidene glycol
tropospheric refraction correction
Volochanka
Vulpecula
world wide production
write/read head