音标:['bʌtrəsɪz] ;
n. 扶壁, 扶垛( buttress的名词复数 )
v. 用扶壁支撑, 加固( buttress的第三人称单数 )
n a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building
v reinforce with a buttress
v make stronger or defensible

1. Forecasters say Hurricane Irene is getting a little stronger as it turns over the Bahamas, heading toward the East Coast. The storm is expected to grow over warmer waters. Now, vacationers are leaving parts of North Carolina. 2. Earthquake damage

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(280) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2011(八月)

There is another famous church in Paris built to that other Mary in the Bible known as Mary Magdalene. 巴黎还有一个著名的教堂是为《圣经》里另外一个玛莉亚而建的,这个玛莉亚叫做抹大拉的玛莉亚。 This church to

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(166) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生世界地理教材

When you land in France you see French flags flying; 到了法国,你就看到法国国旗在各处飘扬; they are red, white, and blue, the same colors as our own flag, but their flags have only three stripes and the stripes are up and down, 法国

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(217) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生世界地理教材

Hey, we are in luck. It's a sunny Monday for our day trip out to Salisbury where we'll continue our peek into mediaeval architecture. As the mediaeval world developed more political stability and weal

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(261) / 评论(0) 分类 雾都漫步

The Tay Bridge Disaster Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of 1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time. 'Twas about seven o'clock at nigh

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(280) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英文故事与诗歌

We stay in Scotland for todays podcast. We are going to meet a man called William Topaz McGonagall. Most people agree that he was the worst poet ever in the English language. He was born in 1825. His father was a cotton weaver, who had to move from t

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abstain or disclose theory
active zone
ad valorem taxation
alkalimetric titration
all-day efficiency
alpha rays
angiomyolipomata
anterior hemilaryngectomy
Armiak
barotropic
bednorz
blastodermic vesicles
boggin line
brom(o)sulfophthalein(sulfobromophthalein)
buhr-stone mill dressing
burn-up
catch a square
central time-sharing minicomputer
centroid linkage clustering
charge multiplet
chimney-sweeps' carcinoma
circled around
compensation order
compensatory hypertrophy of heart
curving machine
cysto-urethral anastomosis
dedicates to
derrick brace
differential limit switch
Don Prea
drew in
ear-nose-and-throat doctors
electron beam (eb) cured coating
enrollable
environmental assets
expanded clay aggregate
explicit about
expressor
feature set
Fermi spectrum
fine dissected topography
first amplifier valve
Fryanovo
Galvanizing Services
gave way
genus castillejas
gill arch
gluino
gold import embargo
hamentasch
hand it to sb
hay briquette
hyperchamaerrhine
hypersecrecy
incontrovertible
intelligence report
Inzigkofen
isoprenaline hydrochloride
job slot
L cut
layin
liposuction
lockdowns
malkovichians
manyfold
material-testing-machine
megabats
mesognathous skull
mindcrime
mitsubishi electric
notion-store
oedipism
on-staff
parcel tray
phytophagies
plumbing fixture
pre-planned
pressure gasifier
protostylid
prototypical character
ramnaths
rational transport
reticuloendothelioses
rhetoricity
ripple filter
rules of conflict
schizocarp
self-builder
serologies
species-specific behaviour
speech signal
tapinoma-odor
tennest
time outs
torn-tape relay
uncautioned
user definition area
vespermann
wentzel
wet cold
worthless