音标:['ʃæsɪl] ;
abbr. facility 容易; 简易; 灵巧; 熟练

In countries around the world, hundreds of thousands of poor people face daily hazards to earn meager livings by scavenging for recyclable goods. In Cambodia, hundreds of scavenger families find their lives changing - they will lose their homes and

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Kim Jong-il was born in 1941 in the Soviet Union. North Koreas official biographies, however, state his year of birth as 1942 and his birthplace as Korea. He has been the leader of North Korea for over a decade. Since Kim is not actually the presiden

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Now the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today Shirley Griffith and Doug Johnson tell about pilot Wiley Post. He set new records when he flew his own airplane around the world in nineteen thirty-three. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: It was nineteen thi

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By Michael Bowman Washington 04 June 2008 Late Tuesday, Illinois Senator Barack Obama made history as the first African American to win the presidential nomination of a major U.S. political party, becoming the presumptive Democratic standard bearer.

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By Meredith Buel Washington 27 October 2006 The United States says it is ready to help Saudi Arabia defend its oil facilities against terrorist threats, following a statement by the British navy asking merchant shippers to be on alert for suspicious

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 25 April 2006 A U.S. government official has told Congress Iraq's new government will require long-term U.S. and international assistance if reconstruction efforts are to

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By Dan Robinson Washington 29 March 2007 A detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba being escorted by two U.S. soldiers Arguments for and against the closure of the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba used for the interrogation and detention of suspected t

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By Jim Randle Pittsburgh 25 September 2009 Leaders of 20 of the world's leading and emerging economies are gathered in Pittsburgh, seeking ways to fight the recession, and keep economic troubles from breaking out again. Friday, presidents, prime min

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Negotiators at the climate summit in Copenhagen last month failed to agree on a new climate change treaty to replace the current Kyoto Protocol before it expires in 2012. Jonathan Lash is president of World Resources Institute, an environmental polic

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Ethnic Karen minority children play soccer on a muddy field at their refugee camp along the Thai-Burma border near Mae Sot, Thailand, 29 Jun 2010 Burma's ethnic Karen communities and rights groups are reporting stepped up attacks by Burma's military

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Swaziland has one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the world - 26 percent for those between the ages of 15 and 29. But to deal with the epidemic, health officials must do more than increase treatment, care and prevention efforts. They must also

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: Anu Garg, creator of the A.Word.A.Day Web site and author of a new book called Another Word A Day: An All-New Romp Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English

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By Chris Simkins Washington 16 April 2008 Millions of Americans could lose their homes this year and next as the rate of foreclosures across the United States rises to the highest in decades. The foreclosure crisis has worsened despite ongoing effort

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今天我们要讲的习惯用语里都有一个主要的单词:scratch。很多人都知道scratch这个词的意思是抓、或者刨刮表面。你要是给蚊子叮了一口,你就会这样做:scratch your skin with your fingernails。就是你

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 06 February 2008 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates faces his NATO counterparts at a meeting starting Thursday in Lithuania, just days after comments he made and letters he wrote generated angry responses from some allies. VOA

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By Gary Thomas Washington 20 March 2008 Loyalists of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were big winners in the recent parliamentary elections. With many reformists locked out of the electoral process, the contests were primarily between different faction

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 07 June 2006 A militant group in the Niger Delta Wednesday staged a bloody raid on an oil facility seizing five South Korean oil workers and killing four soldiers. ----------

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By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 17 October 2007 A group concerned with human rights in Ethiopia's eastern Ogaden region says refugees fleeing to neighboring Somalia are being rounded up by Somali authorities and handed over to Ethiopian troop

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By Mil Arcega Washington 08 March 2007 watch Export Control report A coalition of technology and manufacturing associations is pushing for an overhaul of the nation's export control system. The group claims current U.S. regulations aimed at keeping

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By Jim Randle Irbil, Iraq 07 September 2007 Recent reports to the U.S. Congress about the situation in Iraq point to limited success by the Iraqi government in establishing security but continuing problems in bringing about political reconciliation.

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学英语单词
abrasive resistance
additional bending moment on derrick boom
adjustment disc
Alcedo atthis
anticollision indicator
area of blade section
automatic breaker
bedevils
bureaucratic process model
buy now, pay later
careleavers
caught behind
cavagna
cemented tungsten carbide tool
cholerythrogen
cockpit karst
correspond member
crossing-place
data communication station
didrovaltrate
dioramas
disassents
donder
Dunmoon
durability line
dust-separating appliance
effective emissivity
elasticspectrum
electrical-conductivity measurement
emanation
endofungal
established fiscal policy
estg.
exographX
fencelet
Ficus subpisocarpa
find-spots
flimsier
font assignment
fulcrum pin washer
fused fibre optics plate
giddiness
glassreinforced plastic lifeboat
going in
Guijo de Galisteo
herrerite
horse breeding
horse tail
hyper-use
in ... head
in possession of sth
intellectual technology
interglacial condition
Javron-les-Chapelles
kilo oersted
lactophenol solution
leaf of diaphragm
Maronite Church
maulvis
maxitem
mean mug
method of energy integral
military symbol
molecular refractivity
moments of distribution
Morand's foramina
muriate of ammonia
Mycetia glandulosa
National Reemployment Service
Neuchâtel, Cant.de
ornamenters
orthoquartzitic
peak hourly volume
pectorally
peglet
performing arts foundation (paf)
precision micrometer eyepiece
production scheduling and control
proselytutes
ranka
ready-package(d)
recognition dispute
ricinus communiss
Rieckenberg's test
Rinchnach
Rubik's cubists
sea marker
secondary induction coil
semi-enclosed sea
serpentine-jade
Silesia
solfataric clay
staple goods
statistical environment
sure thing!
town clearing
travelers, check
tumbeler file
vasicentric tracheids
vibrating break
wankhman
welt cutter