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adj. 和善的,安逸的

A gem stone plucked from the earth, the sea, or riverbed, often travels across continents to cutting and polishing workshops; and those are increasingly found in India. Far away, the Belgian city of Antwerp is still king in diamond trading. In these

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(99) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(九月)

They are hacked out of the earth, cut, polished and bought and sold along the way -- to finally be shown in all their glory. Gems, these tiny bits of mineral formations from the mines of South Africa, Burma, Brazil, Colombia, Russia or Canada eventu

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(九月)

Precious stones and metals have long held an attraction, sometimes a fatal one. The gem trade is a multi-billion dollar business, and precious stones are a highly prized commodity. This has helped some countries develop into success stories and has

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However, I managed to get a hold of a Borane eventually, and here is the beast. 无论如何,我最终得到了一些硼烷,这就是那个怪物。 And it really does have the same -- if you calculate, if you measure the vibrational frequencies,

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

[00:00.00]Exercise 2.2 [00:10.82]Today, we will talk about choking. [00:13.67]In fact, choking is quite a common problem [00:17.08]in our daily life. [00:19.29]What's choking? [00:21.42]This is when someone has an object stuck in [00:24.98]his or her

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Symphony #5, Movement 2 piano Song 贝多芬第五交响乐第二乐章 I've been thinking, if Mr. Beethoven and his housekeeper did leave, surely we could find someone nice to live upstairs. 我一直在想如果贝多芬先生和他的女管家真的

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 贝多芬住我家楼上

Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is taking care of clichs. Guest writer Sal Glynn writes, clichs can be a writers worst enemy, and the reader usually doesnt like clichs much either. Writers from Jonathan Swift to George Orwell have ranted against the

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(288) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

EXPLORATIONS -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (MUSIC) Today, Shirley Griffith and Tony Riggs complete a report about America's second manned space program, Gemini. Its purpose was to bring the United States closer to its goal

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(七)月

The Gem State, the Land of Lincoln and the Crossroads of America... Now, the VOA Special English program Words and Their Stories. As we told you last week, every American state has a nickname. Here are some more of them. Idaho is known as the Gem Sta

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 2014年VOA慢速英语(七)月

Dr. Gary Smith heads the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. He and other pediatricians are calling for warning labels on foods that are a high-risk for choking for children. Every week, children

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(二月)

Radiation Might Help Heart Regain its Rhythm That beeping sound is the normal beating of a heart. But here's what the same heart sounds like, during a bout of ventricular tachycardia, or VT the racing beats are caused by an electrical short circuit i

发表于:2019-01-20 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年科学美国人1月

文本: Banshee:You seem troubled, mistress. Sylvanas:Arent you, sister? Only days ago we were the Lich Kings slaves. We existed only to _(1)_ in his name. And now we are free. Banshee:I dont understand, mistress. I thought youd be _(2)_. Syl

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 小龟乐游记英语短文

During the summer vacation, I took my children to visit the Creetown gem rock museum, in Scotland. It is highly recommended, as it is the leading independent gem rock museum in the whole of the UK. We travelled about fourty five minutes to get there,

发表于:2019-01-28 / 阅读(96) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客 A cup of English

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Learning the Basics of First Aid: What to Do Until Medical Help ArrivesBy Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Spec

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(133) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年慢速英语(十一)月

英国独立音乐才女 Natalie Lungley 最新单曲《Gem》!她的嗓音又有点像阿黛尔,只是少了些沧桑感,高音不似 Lana Del Rey 那样空灵,但是有自己特色。期待她有更多的作品。 歌词: I've told you a

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歌词: I've told you a thousand times I can see too much hate in your eyes So light up another one And walk away 'cause you've done wrong Lay down on the dirty ground Lay down 'cause they don't want you It's a waste of time No they don't want you

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EZ Does It OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST: Now, it's time to crown our big winner. Let's bring back our final two contestants Jake and Ross. (APPLAUSE) EISENBERG: Puzzle guru Art Chung, take it away. ART CHUNG: Ross and Jake, your final round is called Easy

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(115) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年NPR美国国家公共电台8月

Celebrity Sayings OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST: Ross, since you've been north of the Arctic Circle, you strike me as a bit of a daredevil. ROSS FREILICH: I guess you could go with that. EISENBERG: You think? FREILICH: Yeah. EISENBERG: Scott, are you a dare

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Contents Under Pressure OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST: Let's meet our next two contestants. First up, Ross Freilich. You work in mergers and acquisitions, and you just got back from a trip to an island north of the Arctic Circle. ROSS FREILICH: That's corre

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年NPR美国国家公共电台8月

By Carolyn Weaver New York 10 October 2009 An estimated 62,000 people in the United States have severe kidney failure. To lead a normal life, each needs a new kidney, preferably one transplanted from a healthy living donor. Some are lucky enough to

发表于:2019-02-20 / 阅读(157) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(十月)
学英语单词
Aarle-Rixtel
adolent
agreement in principle
al jurayd
alody
analogue to time to digit
antimold
binary process
braino
Camellia kwangnanica
capacity to benefit from legal rights
caprimulgus carolinenses
centre of a chord
chinese pharmacopoeia
cloud streaks
common staghorn fern
computer operated
confidings
contrast medium
controversialized
corrosion depth
counterasserting
Cromwell current
curve killer
denarrable
dermatophylaxis
disequilibrize
Enrico Caruso
entitlement programs
ethyl green
European barberry
exaggerating
finite nonempty set
haefely
hairtails
harbagar
hasora chromus
hit lists
hunter
ignorantest
ildas
Ingmar
intermediate igneous rock
intrareticulate
jack-a-lantern
kink memes
large-cap
lario
lockage-on
Mackeson
Maldive Is.
master tools of industry
mercuric fulminate
millettia lasiopetala (hay.) merr.
missed again
monotonic quantity
Nadymskaya Ob', Zaliv
neurovisceral
no end of something
nonreversible laydays
noviny
on strike
Panzhihua
pebble mosaic
penetration strategy
phacidioid
phenetidinuria
proctoscope
publickly
pulsus magnus et celer
pyrophoric waste
read around check
restively
Rhododendron tingwuense
rubber ice-water bag
run someone into the ground
separable code
separate washer
shark-tooth projections
shrubberies
single stage system
slipper pretensioner
solution chromatography
space character (sp)
spiderdom
stabilized antenna
successive terms
tempietto
thionic
three space dimensions
uncrowded
undiscursive
unpretreated
Ussuriyskiy Rayon
veil-
wish-wash
wrinkle-resistant
x-ray micro analyser (xma)
yellow green
yield line theory
Yifag