n. <俚>消费合作社( co-op的复数形式 ); 合作公寓; 屋主没有产权; 合作公寓是美国城市中低收入居民最主要的居住方式
n. a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week marked Barack Obama's first month as president -- and his first major action as commander-in-chief. He approved seventeen thousand more troops for Afghanistan. The security situation is getting w

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Why dont you ever take me out to dinner? Ginger screamed. All my girlfriends go out to dinner with their boyfriends at least once a week. They go to nice restaurants and they have a good time. Then they call me up the next day and brag about what a n

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By Michael Drudge London 26 January 2006 Britain will deploy up to 5,700 troops in Afghanistan during the coming months to support an expanded NATO mission into a dangerous southern region. John Reid

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 26 December 2006 Ethiopian troops Tuesday were heading towards the Somali capital as Islamist fighters retreated from the front line following Monday's bombing of two airports by Ethiopian forces. Ethiopian jets Tuesday als

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 29 December 2006 Somalia's interim Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi says his secular government troops and their Ethiopian allies are firmly in control of the capital, Mogadishu, one day after the once-powerful Islamists hastily

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By Scott Stearns Riga, Latvia 28 November 2006 President Bush during his press conference in the Grand Hall at Latvia University, Tuesday, 28 Nov. 2006 in Riga, Latvia U.S. President George Bush says more NATO troops are needed to battle Taleban mil

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By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 22 November 2006 Reconstruction in central and southern Iraq has been hindered by the ongoing violence. But in northern Iraq's relatively calm Kurdistan region, some 2,000 South Korean troops are on a mission to help

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By Efam Dovi Accra 20 October 2006 Ghana has agreed to a U.N. request to contribute more troops to the peacekeeping force in Lebanon. The West African nation already has 700 soldiers serving in Southern Lebanon, where the security situation remains

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By Paula Wolfson White House 29 May 2006 Americans are honoring their war dead on this Memorial Day holiday. President Bush spoke for the nation at a ceremony at the country's largest military cemetery. A lone military bugler saluted his fallen comr

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By Scott Stearns White House 17 February 2006 President Bush says peace in Sudan would help end attacks by Ugandan rebels based in southern Sudan. Mr. Bush also called for more troops to protect Sudan

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By Sonja Pace London 16 June 2008 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced he will send additional troops to Afghanistan to boost force levels in the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaida supporters. VOA's Sonja Pace has details from London. B

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THE MAKING OF A NATION - April 18, 2002: Synopsis: 1920-1940 By David Jarmul VOICE 1: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (Theme) History usually is a proce

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By Benjamin Sand Burmel, Afghanistan 18 May 2006 Foreign security guards stand near scene where car bomb exploded in Herat, May 18, 2006 A

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By Michael Bowman Washington 03 June 2006 A U.S. military investigation has concluded that U.S. troops did not intentionally kill innocent civilians in an Iraqi village. Two other incidents are still

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The Ant and the Dove An ant went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and being carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of drowning. A dove sitting on a tree overhanging the water plucked a leaf and let it fall into the strea

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By Benjamin Sand Kabul 14 March 2006 Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper wrapped up a two-day visit to Afghanistan Tuesday. The newly elected Canadian leader told reporters that the foreign troops

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By Margaret Besheer Baghdad 03 April 2007 In February, U.S. and Iraqi troops began new security operations in Baghdad to bring spiraling sectarian violence under control. VOA's Margaret Besheer reports that in one district of the capital, joint U.S.

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 12 April 2007 Officials in the breakaway republic of Somaliland say their forces clashed with troops from the semi-autonomous Puntland region earlier this week over a disputed strip of desert that has been the source of violence

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By Margaret Besheer Baghdad 14 December 2006 A senior U.S. senator visiting Baghdad is calling for more American troops to help stem sectarian violence in Iraq. VOA's Margaret Besheer reports from the Iraqi capital. Sen. John McCain talks to reporte

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By Jim Randle Baghdad 18 January 2007 Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says if Washington and Baghdad can do a better job of equipping Iraqi troops, there will be less need for multi-national soldiers in his country in a few months. VOA's Jim Ran

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学英语单词
agrosystems
alcoholic intoxication
An-do
baby carrots
bailey's
barot
Brachypodium sylvaticum
buyer's over
chiller unit
Chinácota
container gantry crane
corpora vesicae felleae
cottonwood r.
dardanus guttatus
decidability
defense laboratories
depot and warehouse sites
docufantasies
dried full cream milk
drop-oiler
Eupatorium purpureum
exines
extension splint
family Mniaceae
flaser-gneiss
flyback line
fmc
forelimb bud
from every side
gametically
gayspeak
get over something
gill chambers
glareolid
glucuronidations
goes all the way
gptt
grease-proof wrapping
halidi
harden
haxton
Hellfire Club
heterocephaluss
high-speed transaction processing system
Holiodon
Häggsåsen
initial rhymes
Joint Photographic Experts Group
joint stock
kije
kill sth off
kretzschmaria pavimentosa
lemon chrome yellow
lightly reinforced concrete
macavity
macrobiostemonous
meridians and collaterals
mode votage
munidopsis dasypus
non idealistic
occurrence span code/dates (36)
oil floatation
optical parallax
oral neural system
paint printing
papaverine sulfate
peace dividend
Pharenda
plounced
porous foundation
postpatagium
prefectual
principal vent
professional ethics of certified public accountants
propellant-feed system
Pseudo-Eucryptite
puffer poisoning
put sth towards sth
rakishly
recommended speed
retirement plan
Rogovskaya
s-wave
saik
satellite switched multiple access
scanning antenna
scientific intuition
septuary
starry ray
syrian hamsters
tableside
tilt-up
tobacconist's
toss up the sponge
transitive dependency
unmule
vinobas
voice back
wastening
Werlhof's disease
white corpuscles
Yergak-Targak-Tayga, Khrebet