A person who makes a living by predicting disasters and worst-case scenarios.
> Guy1: What's the news, man?
> Guy2: Bird Flu, terrorists, hurricanes, global warming, the price of gasoline and natural gas and electricity skyrocketing, death toll in Iraq . . .
> Guy1: Boy, the dread merchants are busy lately!

The Merchant Of Venice 001 A merchant named Antonio lived in the city of Italy. Antonio was a very rich man who owned many ships. He traded with foreign countries. Antonio was loved by everyone, becau

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 有声英语文学名著

Once upon a time, a very rich merchant lived in a city. He had a loving family and had all necessities of life provided for. Many a time, he left home to visit other kingdoms to spread his business and make new contacts. Once when he was to cross a d

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Long years ago, Zaman was the Prince of a small Arab kingdom. He went to a nearby forest with his Princess Badora for a camp. After the meals the Princess removed all her jewels to take rest in the tent. When the Princess put the jewels beside her, a

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In a small town, there lived a merchant. He ran a small business. Unfortunately, he lost all his money in business. I cant stay like this. I have to do something. I will go to the next town and invest in another business, he thought to himself. So he

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Unit 1 [00:27.95]The donkey and the pekinese [00:32.71]There was a merchant who had a Pekinese dog. [00:37.98]It was like a toy. [00:41.14]The Dekinese lived in the merchant's house, [00:45.90]slept on his bed, sat on his lap and lived an easy life.

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Four Wives There was a rich merchant who had 4 wives. He loved the 4th wife the most and adorned her with rich robes and treated her to delicacies 1 . He took great care of her and gave her nothing bu

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This Short Story The Fragrance is quite interesting to all the people. Enjoy reading this story. In a small town lived a wealthy merchant. He was very kind and charitable. He had a son, who had unfortunately fallen into a bad company. Many times the

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? The story is called Appointment in Samarra. A Baghdad merchant sends a servant to buy provisions. While at the market, the servant bumps into Death, who makes a threaten

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(五)月

There was a rich merchant who had 4 wives. He loved the 4th wife the most and adorned her with rich robes and treated her to delicacies. He took great care of her and gave her nothing but the best. 从前,一位富有的商人娶了四个老婆。他

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Proofread by Claire Deakin. This is Natasha, and while Ive been away doing a bit of globe trotting, I didnt forget about my old friends. I sent Prince Bertie the Frog a postcard from Mount Everest, but unfortunately it didnt arrive because the postma

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[Part 5] It was in spring, on the eve of the mid-Pentecostal feast. Father Sergy was officiating at the vigil service in his hermitage church, where the congregation was as large as the little church could hold, about twenty people. They were all wel

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Hugh John Mungo Grant, born in London on the 9th September, 1960, is a famous British actor and film producer. 休约翰曼格格兰特于1960年9月9日出生在伦敦,是英国著名的演员兼电影制片人. He has received a Golden Globe Awar

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Is this the Captain of the Pequod? said I, advancing to the door of the tent. 您是不是船长?我问。 Supposing it be the captain of the Pequod, what dost thou want of him? he demanded. 是的话,你找我有什么事? I was thinking of sh

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Four Lovers in Life 生命当中的四位爱人 There was a rich merchant who had 4 wives. He loved the 4th wife the most and adorned her with rich robes and treated her to delicacies. He took great care of her and gave her nothing but the best. 从前

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1、The course of true love never did run smooth. (A Midsummer Nights Dream 1.1) 真爱无坦途。 《仲夏夜之梦》 2、Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to from and dignity: love looks not with the eyes, but with mi

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There was a rich merchant who had 4 wives. He loved the 4th wife the most and adorned her with rich robes and treated her to delicacies. He took great care of her and gave her nothing but the best. 从前,一位富有的商人娶了四个老婆。他

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Four wives in your life 从前,有个商人娶了四个老婆,他对除了大老婆之外的三个小老婆宠爱有加,以不同的方式爱着她们。临终前,商人问四个老婆谁愿意陪伴着他,随他而去。二老婆、三老婆

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There was a rich merchant who had 4 wives. He loved the 4th wife the most and adorned her with rich robes and treated her to delicacies. He took great care of her and gave her nothing but the best. 从前,一位富有的商人娶了四个老婆。他

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Ka Wah International Merchant Finance Limited 嘉华国际财务有限公司 kabushiki kaisha [Japanese] 株式会社〔日语〕;股份有限公司 Kadoorie Agricultural Aid Loan Fund 嘉道理农业

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injure vt.伤害 The car turned over, but fortunately no one was seriously injured.=The car turned over, but fortunately no one was seriously hurt. 车子翻覆,所幸无人受重伤。 smooth a.平滑的;顺利的 vt.使平坦 The lady looks all t

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学英语单词
absorption fredquency meter
accpeting bank
accuracy of analytic model
Adelshofen
AOK
apartment-block
arsenobetaine
back-folding
bank cards
barrel casing feed pump
between acts
blazeless
bond discount
bracket function
brevon (la brevon riviere)
burgdorferi
calamite (tremolite)
CCVs
chucklefucks
cichlid
clidorrhexis
Colpotrophine
completism
composite joint (or compound joint)
congregated grain structure
corriar
Cryptochilum
cumulus mediocris cloud
decentralized topology
detailed operation schedule
dictionary information
diiodopyridine
dioscorea sansibarensis
double dragging
effective field of magnetocrystalline anisotropy
electrically fused magnesite brick
engine test tool kit
enterprise social media
environmental civil engineering
Eutony
failaka
faltung
funcamental
functional assessment
genetic recombination
gizzards
Gompertz curves
gracilicutes
grain-boundary area
ground-shaking
hemlack-alkaloid
hilly tundra
ignition control
inherdance
intellectual nourishment
interstitial edema
lavani
layer-stepping
leather lace
lutidon oral
madaras process
major smuggler
mawles
mellivoras
method of equal coefficient
multi-head welder
Mycetia hainanensis
non binary switching theory
nursery rhymes
once-soaring
oppignorates
palatia
parallelotropic
passivated insulating oil
pencil-outlined wash drawing
piping layout
PKSFX
rattled through
residers
restrengthening
reversible ratchet handle
Riamet
rough-housed
rutenite (jaipurite)
Schizophyceae
Segmentum superius
sergentomyia (sergentomyia) souamipleuris
Shinnston
single spacing
slab dielectric wavequide
soda orthoclase (loxoclase)
starting date of a project
stroke character generator
Teobiline
the other afternoon
to Pluto
unagainstandably
vacuum-tight window
valve stem
Van Norman Lakes
virginianus
zero transfer function