n. (Clanton)人名;(英)克兰顿
克兰顿

今天我们要讲的美国习惯用语是:come down on like a ton of bricks。Ton,是一吨两吨的吨; brick,是砖头的意思。A ton of bricks一吨重的砖头砸下来,想想都让人不寒而栗。Come down on like a ton of bricks,

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By Doug Levine Washington 28 October 2006 Saxophonist Michael Lington became a fan of American jazz while growing up in his native Denmark. It was a passion so strong that he eventually settled down in the U.S. and launched a recording career. In a

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欣赏独具创意的英语广告!边听边看边学,品味世界名牌的风范,从细微之处感受英美社会的文化。

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- American Andy Roddick eased into third round of the ATP Washington Classic tennis tournament on Tuesday. Roddick, a three-time Washington champion, defeated Slovenian Grega Zemlja 6-4, 6-4 in just 84 minutes. I accompli

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This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I am Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. Air pollution is bad for our health, but scientists say we don't know much about the long-term effects. So researchers in Canada and the Netherlands dec

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By Barry Newhouse Sheikhan, Iraq 19 February 2007 Iraq's northern Kurdistan region has been relatively free of the sectarian fighting that has crippled the rest of the country, but a rare attack by Sunni Kurds on a religious group called the has loca

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 22 June 2007 In another major setback for international efforts to bring peace to Somalia, a violent power struggle between two sub-clans in the port city of Kismayo is fueling fear that an all-out clan war could erupt at any ti

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 12 March 2007 An old Somali man, holds his gun in Bakhara market in Mogadishu to defend his family from looters (File photo) In the Somali capital, Mogadishu, elders of the locally-dominant Hawiye clan tell VOA that the interim

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By Alisha Ryu Mogadishu 17 January 2007 In Somalia, the demise of the country's once-powerful Islamist movement is putting enormous pressure on the secular, U.N.-recognized interim government to rally popular support and stabilize the country. VOA C

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如今,越来越多的人突破城市界限,工作生活双城化、房子两地买、婚姻周末化,社交网络多城交叉,原有的单一城市生活工作模式被打破,钟摆族应运而生。 请看相关报道: Many white-collar

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By Alisha Ryu Mogadishu 11 June 2007 In a new sign of trouble for Somalia's transitional government, elders of the Hawiye clan, which dominates in the capital, are threatening to boycott a national reconciliation conference, scheduled to begin in fiv

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英文歌词: We took the long way home, you held my hand, The days so full of all the things we had planned. We walked beyond the green, beyond the day. We shared a dream that i let slip away. I had to find myself. I had to find myself. No use looking

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I only slept for a couple of hours In the back of my buddy's truck I must be runnin' on solar power 'Cause I'm ready to crank back up And the boys are all bangin' on cheap guitars And the girls are all rockin' their bikini tops And that big ball's wa

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WASHINGTON, D.C. Greg Watson has promoted solar power around the world for years. I work in green [technology] for an international development bank, [and] Im always saying, Look, the costs are down, there are all these incentives, really it makes ec

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 12 November 2007 The top leader of the Hawiye clan council of elders in the Somali capital Mogadishu is believed to have gone into hiding, after he accused Somalia's Ethiopian-backed interim government of trying to silence oppos

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 19 October 2009 Several hundred insurgent fighters in Somalia have reportedly defected to the government in the past week, following fierce fighting that began early this month between militant Islamist factions in the southern

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The inter-island ferry between the North and the South Islands at the moment travels between Wellington and Picton. The ferry carries people, cars, trucks and trains (without the engine). It takes about three hours. The government is looking at chang

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Don't you hate hearing that clock on the wall chimming saying its time and Don't you just wish we could stay right here together all day long You know it wouldn't be a crime if we crawled back into bed got as close as we could get Tried to figure out

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The way you stumble in the kitchen Looking for that first cup of joe How you put on your mascara Starin' in the mirror on your tippy-toes And if you wonder why I love you baby I can boil it down to just one thing Chorus Yeah everything Every little t

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学英语单词
acoustical reflector
assistant prosecutor
beer guts
bete rouge
big-heartedly
blacktongue
Bocholt
body-shaken
candyce
cetostoma regani
citals
Cocoro I.
cod oils
collapsible shelter
contour of constant geometric accuracy
cranck
crime of counterrevolutionary homicide
Damroh
dark factory
Dashapalla
date-nut bread
dead-head crew
del credre
direct radial triangulation
dwt.
effect of screw and rudder
Esvres
ethinamate
faculty senate
fast-back
fleetlands
freudenburg
galvanofaradization
gear coupling
geographical profile
glimpse
Glyoxylyl
heat sink compound
hemangioxanthoma
Holmes scale
hosepipe ban
Hostrup
if necessary
implicit conversion enable
improved mass selection
insinuate into
lady-killers
last received
lead-minings
macro crystal
maneuvering autopilot
mascular tension
maximum material size
methyl-24-hydroxyglycyrrhetate
methylprotocatechuic acid
monoclinic tetarto-pyramid
mugilogobius chulae
narrow path
nerve wracking
noncontaminated atmosphere
not pay
NSHS
Oitavos
one-side information source
output header
oxygen enhancement ratio
pad-steam process
papilionaceous plant
parallel in the narrow sense
Patterson method
patwaris
Pistol River
planar class of symmetry
primary water purification plant
promorphology
rachiterata
reachability set
ready-to-wear store
recurrent sequence
red snappers
reprivation
rhynchostegium vagans
rotary shoe
ryals
salvage convoy
screw ventilation
sideryl
solar corpuscular flow
stormbreakers
survivability and vulnerability model
syndrome of stagnated heat of gallbladder channel
take home to oneself
technical question
the Blue Book
tolerableness
triazolic
universal blowpipe
warm pool
warranty of goods safety
white reflectance standard
work of screening pseudo-collectives
yield-mass curve