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> Karl Pilkington explained to Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant that travel to foreign lands was a lot o faffin, because you have to get injections just to keep yourself alive during the visit.

A former housing official in central China's Henan Province has been detained after being found to own 29 properties. Zhai Haifeng, the former director of the local housing administration bureau in Zhengzhou city has been accused online of being enga

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 英闻天下

Photos shot in Hong Kong this week show more than 18-thousand shark fins drying on the roofs of industrial buildings. The fins are spread neatly in patterns under a warm sun. The images present just a fraction of the shark finning that takes place ev

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1. affinity /əˈfɪnɪti:/ -- (literally, condition of being near the boundary or a neighbor) kinship; sympathy; liking; attraction He intends to establish some kind of an affinity between himself and the public. 他希望在自己和公众之间建立

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Stagecoaches carried what is now America's fourth-largest bank to success Ted Landphair | Washington, DC 11 March 2010 You probably didn't believe it when we said Wells Fargo's stagecoaches could hold up to 18 people, plus baggage. Here's proof! One

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Yvonne: This is 6 Minute English, I'm Yvonne Archer - and Finn has kindly joined mefor today's programme. Hello Finn! Finn: Hello Yvonne how are you? Yvonne: Oh, I'm great thanks! Now, 2011 is the year of the Rabbit in the Chinese lunarcalendar - and

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Genetic Analyses Show Endangered Species in Shark Fin Soup More than 73 million sharks are killed every year, mostly for their fins, to make shark fin soup, industry experts and conservationists say. Shark fin soup is a common offering in many Asian

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CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Im Christopher Cruise. FAITH LAPIDUS: And Im Faith Lapidus. This week, we tell about sharks. We tell how demand for shark fin soup has led to the killing of millions of these cre

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The One Ft. Fingazz And Angel 演唱者:Lil cuete 以述说帮派、爱情、生活为主 多数曲风喜欢加入变音器。 英文歌词 i could be the one i could be the one i could be the one baby its my number call me whenever and when u r re

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. In recent years, a shining city grew in the desert of Dubai on -- and even off -- the Gulf coast. An island shaped like a palm tree was built for hotels, homes and entertainment. In October of last ye

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The almost $1 trillion EU bailout package has not quelled the Greek financial crisis, nor has it erased the memories of last week's deadly demonstrations in Athens, in which hundreds of thousands of Greeks took to the streets to protest the governmen

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Shark Fin Consumption Declines in Hong Kong Harvesting is what fishermen call the brutal act of cutting the fins off of living sharks and throwing the torso back into the ocean. Around 50 percent of all shark fins worldwide are traded through Hong Ko

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The Yangtze River is a major habitant for finless porpoise, an aquatic marine mammal close to dolphins. However due to increasing human activities the number of the animal has been declining in China over the years. Provinces along the Yangtze River

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ECONOMICS REPORT - United Airlines Will Have to Seek New Financing Without U.S. Loan Guarantees By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, July 09, 2004 This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Econom

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Iraqi Officials Ask Donors to Speed up Distribution of Financial Assistance Kerry Sheridan Representatives from some 40 donor countries financing Iraq's reconstruction program open a two-day meeting i

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The sub-prime mortgage collapse that led to the current U.S. financial crisis has not had as deep an impact in the middle of the nation as it has had on the east and west coasts. But economists say a credit crunch will affect all regions of the coun

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Its hard to find something not impacted by our current financial crisis. Here are 12 examples of what the recession means for specific things, from Spam to sex addiction. 1. Spam It looks like meat, it tastes like meat, but its a far cheaper substitu

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California Bans Shark Fin People in California can no longer eat the Chinese delicacy of shark fin soup. The Governor of California officially made it illegal to sell or possess shark fin. The ban is a part of a growing movement worldwide to save the

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ATHENS, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras received a bullet in the post, Greek media reported on Monday. Stournaras' aides alerted security forces, when they opened the envelope at his office and discovered the enclosed bull

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BERLIN, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble on Monday urged visiting Greek opposition leader Alexis Tsipras to support austerity measures and economic reforms. Schaeuble told Tsipras, a critic of the German-backed auster

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A story where we gladly bid farewell to a 'smiling angel', a finless porpoise who looks as if he's always smiling. Xiao Hua, or Little Scar, is healthy, nimble, and with hardly a scar detectable now. But six months ago, he was a real scar face. The f

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a buster
acinaces
almonership
antimonous oxalate
Argostoli
arrear
asthenic gout
ataxia cerebral
avalanche of dislocations
basket evaporator
beppo
Bevan
bizone
botchweys
brachycerous
cable tension test circuit
charityware
cnidarina
compressed air motor
coquillettia (coquillettia) crassipes
cross-products
datelining
development inhibitor-releasing coupler
digitalis poisoning
drinkwaters
Eleutherococcus cuspidatus
epothilone
epoxy resin enamel
flarings
fluent metal
geologic legend
get done
Gordias
gravity prospecting method
Halle-an-der-Saale
Hohnertanya
Hongkong and Shanghai Corporation
I/O transfer rate
imperfect heartwood tree
in petto
international electric unit
isotope hydrogeology
Ivan Sergeevich
jumping stick
kralupy nad vltavou (kralupy)
Kāsigar
logical name table
lost properties
Makua
marantaceous
marriage ceremonies
mechanosensitive
Mesa Central
mesosiderite
monochrome image recording
mydatoxine
neck breaking speed
nested domains
non-interest expenses
noospheres
normal vector of surface
oviduct
Peng Siang, Sungai
PerformanceTest
phenotypes
pit-maker
platycephalic, platycephalous
pleochromatic
plum tom
pneumatic engraving tool
pocket door
post emulsification penetrant
prime interest
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Rosa lichiangensis
school refusal
short-shunt compound machine
single adultery
single-press compression
social degeneration
sour ball
steam-refined stock
Stonewall County
storage shell
Sud-Kivu, Prov.du
system assemble
tectosome
tepidly
the gambias
time waits for no one
tridented
Trogiomorpha
unmutilated
us envoy
variablereluctance microphone
wah-wah pedal
web feeding
welding residual stress
well-ruled
wood-decay fungus
Zephath