音标:['kɔːkəs] ;
caucus
['kɔ:kəs]
n.
[美国英语] 【美国政治】 (政党在决策、酝酿候选人时召开的)领导层秘密会议
【英国英语】 (政党内的) 决策机构
vi.
举行或参加政党领导层秘密的预备会议
变形:
n.
caucuses
vi.
caucused或-cussed
. caucusing或-cussing

Caucus Protesters Target Republican Candidates As Republican presidential candidates cross the Midwestern state of Iowa before the January 3rd caucus, they are greeted by supporters and demonstrators at campaign events. Police arrested scores during

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(378) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(十二月)

Greg Flakus The Iowa caucuses held on Monday produced a big win for Massachusetts Senator John Kerry in the race for the Democratic party presidential nomination. Many analysts, however, say the real

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By Paula Wolfson Washington 30 December 2007 The first contest of the U.S. presidential election campaign comes this week in the midwestern state of Iowa, where Democrats and Republicans will hold caucuses Thursday night. VOA correspondent Paula Wolf

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The Senate is working overtime this weekend, trying to make some headway on its version of legislation to overhaul the nation's health care system. NPR's Julie Rovner has more. Among the amendments up for consideration this weekend, is one that would

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United States lawmakers stood with undocumented Asian-American immigrants earlier this week to show support for the young students and workers living in the country. Their future is uncertain after President Donald Trumps administration announced pla

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As Caucus Nears, Republican Candidates Woo Iowa Voters In the days leading up to Iowa's Republican Party caucus January 3, presidential candidates are crossing the Midwestern US state in a final effort to secure support. As they make their case to vo

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By Cindy Saine Washington 04 January 2008 Democratic candidate U.S, Senator Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, are back on the campaign trail in New Hampshire, seeking to capitalize on their stunning vic

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1. Dozens of Shiite Muslims are dead after bombing attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan today. The attacks coincide with a Shiite religious holiday. 2. Standard Poor's is examining the credit rating of 15 eurozone countries, a downgrade is possible. S P's

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US Presidential Candidates Struggle Ahead of Iowa Caucus The United States elects its president in just a little more than 11 months. But before the general election, the Republican party must first select a nominee, who will run against current Pres

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OTTAWA, April 10 (Xinhua) -- Jim Flaherty, who stepped down as one of Canada's longest-serving finance ministers in March and who served during one of the country's most challenging economic times, died suddenly on Thursday at the age of 64. Today is

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Christina, what the fuck are you doing here? 克里斯蒂娜,你怎么会在这里 Shh. They're sleeping. 小声点,他们睡了 Peter. 彼得 Hey, dad. Hey, kiddo. 爸爸好,孩子们 Would you take your brother downstairs? 带你弟弟下楼好

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By Jeffrey Young Washington 14 December 2007 The central U.S. state of Iowa, and several other states, have an alternative way to select presidential nominees for the Democratic and Republican parties. In this segment of How America Elects, VOA's Jef

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Illinois Senator Barack Obama and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee have won the Iowa caucuses held in that Midwestern state on Thursday. Obama, who won the most votes in the Democratic Party caucuses, is the first person of African descent to h

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By Greg Flakus Des Moines, Iowa 04 January 2008 Illinois Senator Barack Obama and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee have won the Iowa caucuses held in that Midwestern state on Thursday. Obama, who won the most votes in the Democratic Party caucu

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By Greg Flakus Des Moines 02 January 2008 On Thursday, voters in Iowa will gather in community halls, schools, coffee shops and other venues to participate in this year's presidential caucuses. This first-in-the-nation event, officially since 1972, c

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今天我们来学几个在总统大选中常会用上的词汇和习惯用语。在大选举行前,几乎隔一天就会公布一次民意调查结果,衡量那些希望得到共和党或民主党总统侯选人提名的人在选民中支持率的

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A Caucus Race Alice was very cold after being in the pool, and all the animals and birds were cold and unhappy. Alice did not wonder about it when they began to speak to her. The best thing if you are cold, the Dodo said, is to have a race--a Caucus

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At a White House ceremony, President Barack Obama has praised the outgoing Secretary of Defense as exemplary, thanking him for the job he has done. When I asked Chuck to serve as the Secretary of Defense, we were entering a significant period of tran

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U.S. presidential contender Mitt Romney decisively won Republican Party caucuses in the western state of Nevada Saturday, confirming his lead in the race to choose his party's nominee for the presidential election in November. Former Speaker of the H

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Terror inCanada 加拿大国内的恐怖主义 Losing your immunity 失去免疫力 Attacks on soldiers in a mainly tranquil land stir talk of global action against terror 士兵在一片宁静的土地上遭受袭击引发了全球有关反恐行动的

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学英语单词
adone
aerologist
airplane flying qualities
almar
anecdotically
angoleses
anhydrous carnallite
antiphlogistics
artificial rock asphalt
astrogenesis
beach ridge
Bennett's small corpuscles
bimanual examination
broadside mill
cacao-tallow
capability of orebody
chain lightning
coachlike
competent income
compressed air mains
computer supervised laboratory system
corporeal chattel
cortical bone
crecies
cronartium quercuum
dispersion physics
distribution of ship motion
DTW
Earn, Loch
enquoting
expanded-center display
finger tremor
first subject
footpegs
galivant
hereditarily finite set
hierarchical revenue sharing method
horizontal rotating table
ibm pcjr
ignition control
in constant motion
incarmined
intensity of gravity field
isolith map
isopedine layer (or bony inner layer)
JCTN
kopi aunty
LASAT
lateral shear interferometer
laying on of hands
liner carriage
low pressure exhaust pipe
low voltage electric porcelain
macrauzata minor
mandatory print labeling
mccollister
meatshots
medium ash series 3 additives
missatical
modulus of surface drainage
multigym
nakin
non-hydraulic cement
Olmer's disease
parkees
peasantvision
pemphigus betae
plexus hepatieus
Polyporus frondosus
posily
procurement prices
protetch
REFCON
relevant file
rounding on
Scillirosid
segregation of securities
semiautomatic advance
set-associative
shock oscillation
spillville
standard atmospheric pressure reading
subserous tissue
succinylsulfathiazelum
supersolution
supracondylar fracture
target language output
turbulent eddies
underground station
undrawn
unmelting
ush
utriculofugal
vehicle maintenance and repair shop
vertically mixed estuary
vesicosigmoidostomy
Vyshnevolotskoye Vdkh.
wadstene
widebodied
worsely
Yushania longiaurita
zwerdling