(come-uppance 的复数) n. 报应, 应得的惩罚
plural of come-uppance

WORDS AND THEIR STORIES - Tinpan Alley By Susan Kelen Broadcast: Sunday, October 10, 2004 Now, the VOA Special English Program Words and Their Stories. Today, we tell about the expression, tinpan alle

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Electronics Show Displays Newest Gadgets CES国际消费电子展展示新奇玩意儿 Thousands of people were in the American state of Nevada earlier this month for the Consumer Electronics Show. The CES is the worlds biggest show for electronic de

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Out of the frying pan and into the fire 【1+1英文】 Angela:

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panacea /ˌpnə'si:ə/ A two-week vacation is wonderful for fatigue, but will not cure baldness or improve vision. It is no panacea. -- remedy for all ills; cure-all; universal remedy ﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is how to format questions. You think you already know this, don't you? I wonder if you're right. Everybody knows how write a plain vanilla question: What's new? They're called direct questions. But there are trickier

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By Jim Bertel Washington, DC 17 February 2006 watch Bird Flu report As the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu continues to spread from Asia to the Middle East, Africa and Europe, there have been many pred

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今天我们要讲的习惯用语都包括pan这个词。它最常见的意思是平底锅或者盘子。我们要学的第一个习惯用语是: out of the frying pan into the fire。 Frying意思是油煎或者油炸,所以frying pan就是煎东西

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A: I am looking for a pan. B: No problem. What size would you like? A: A big one would be nice. B: How about this one? It's our biggest16 in diameter. A: Oh, yes. I like that one. But it's too heavy. B: Okay, try this one. It's made of aluminum. A: O

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A: I'm looking for a pan I can use in my kitchen. B: What size pan were you thinking of? A: I've already got a small pan. I need a big one. B: Well, this one might work for you. A: Oh, no, that's way too heavy a pan for me. B: Here, lift this aluminu

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A: Can you help me find a pan? B: Are you looking for a small, medium, or large pan? A: I want a big pan. B: Does this one look big enough? A: Yes, it's the right size, but it weighs too much. B: Well, what do you think of the aluminum pan? A: It's l

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A: I'd like to purchase a pan. B: Is there any particular size that you want? A: Well, I cook a lot of big meals. B: What do you think of this one? It's a 16 pan. A: Yes, that's the right size, but it's so heavy. B: Well, look at our aluminum pan. It

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A: I need a pan. B: Okay. Do you have a particular size in mind? A: Well, the bigger the better, I think. B: Look at this one. It's our biggest pan. A: Yes, that is big enough, but it's too heavy for me. B: Okay, we have the same thing in aluminum. A

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A: I am looking for a pan. B: No problem. What size would you like? A: A big one would be nice. B: How about this one? It's our biggest16 in diameter. A:I like that one, but it's too heavy. B: Okay, try this one. It's made of aluminum. A: This is muc

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我们要学的第一个习惯用语是: out of the frying pan into the fire。Frying意思是油煎或者油炸,所以frying pan就是煎东西的平底锅。 这个习惯用语由来已久,最早出现在十六世纪早期一名英国作家的笔

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aborted firing
anionic current
antecedent rainfall
archegonial receptacle
articulated pin
auxiliary water-cooled water chiller unit
backup lining brick
base rate for job class
Bernoulli's theoren
Bosporus Bosphorus
Boussu
brotium
bruce c.
capricorn the goats
carbonate soils
Castanopsis clarkei
clarofusite
climatogenic succession
code, object
color anomaly
combable
compatible coordinate system
condescend upon
conservations of charge
Contwoyto L.
coyote-hole blasting
crystal cument
CTSH
delinquent acounts
design margin
dial washer
dithione
Egypt.
elliptical curve
elpenor
ethanenitrile
Gaiety girl
goods of foreign origin
gravitz
gunsights
have an edge over
Hendry
high-rise storage/retrieval system
immune globulin
Intelligent Optical Networking
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jack plub
knowledge center
kreisberg
least value
made amends for
makunouchi
man is the measure of all things
Metilenbiotic
microvia
minute driving yoke
missile penetration aids
NARDIS
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number agreements
oil service conveyor belt
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orbital image
original contract
partes neuralis
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pragmatic argument
quantitative school
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remote-control dial unit
resuscitation plant
riverports
RPL (remote panel loader)
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