grotch (third-person singular simple present grotches, present participle grotching, simple past and past participle grotched)
(dated, fandom slang) To annoy; to irritate.
(dated, fandom slang) To complain.

By Heda Bayron A new report says developing Asian economies are expected to enjoy stronger growth despite high oil prices. However, the report warns, a slowdown in China could hurt its neighbors. The

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(下)--世界经济

说一口流利的英语,从简单的单词开始。 听听,读读,背背,今天你的词汇量又增加了5个。 单词/词义 中英例句 单词听读 cake [ keik ] Mud caked on his shoes. v. 结成一块 泥块粘在他的鞋上。 abate [ E5beit ] The ship sailed when the storm abated. v. 减弱,减轻

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THE MAKING OF A NATION - Competition Drives Industrial Growth In the Late 1800s By Frank Beardsley Broadcast: Thursday, November 10, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in Spec

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 24 September 2007 The spokesman for the new Eritrea-based Somali opposition alliance tells VOA that the group's Islamist-led forces are in an all-out war against Ethiopian troops in Somalia in a bid to oust the Ethiopians from t

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Nations predicts that number will rise to 70 percent by 2050. Urban health challengesHealth researchers, practitioners, policymakers and academics from 45 countries came to the New York Academy of Medicine to discuss a wide and growing array of urban

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BBC Learning English Weekender Wiltshire's underground city Callum:Hello, I'm Callum Robertson and this is Weekender. To the west of London about 90 minutes drive on a good day is the county of Wiltshire. It's one of those typically English counties

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By Steve Herman New Delhi 26 November 2007 The United Nations wants its upcoming conference on climate change in Bali to devise a uniform strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. India, with a booming economy and a billion-plus population, is

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Under the darkness You cannot breath In the mouth of madness You are not free Looking for answer And all the wrong faces You keep changin' your mind If only you see me If only you trust me I turn your world around I'm fearless In my love In my heart

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A part of me is feeling weak I took a chance but now it feels so hard to breathe a lip of faith haunting me what happen to the word that's only you and me I wanna feel alive When I'm running through my life so help me to ignite this spark I feel insi

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I don't know what I would do If I would find the truth That you wander about changes Maybe I'm just a fool 'Cause everyone knows the truth That you're all for me And you want... to be 'Cause it's... my trust Burning through my soul Have I made my dec

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You're the lighthouse in my ocean It's so far from me. When every time you beam your light, you free me. I believe, if we think like a mountain, our love never dies. If the wave is high enough in the ocean, we never turn to light. We are the spirit o

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By Sarah Simpson Lagos 15 June 2007 Military officials say gunmen have abducted more foreign nationals working in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta. News of the hostage-takings come a day after the release from prison of a prominent militant leader, hai

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In India's West Bengal State, authorities have started talks with protesters opposing an automobile plant proposed by Tata Motors to manufacture the world's cheapest car. The automaker has suspended work on the plant, in the face of growing protests

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A landslide near Kaikoura blocked the road and railway from Picton to Christchurch on Friday night. While small landslides on the narrow road near Kaikoura are quite common, this is the biggest one ever in this area. It is about 100m long and covers

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Sunny: Did you hear the news? Nancy and Brian are splitting up. Igor: How long have they been married? Sunny: Eight years. Im sure it was the seven- year itch. I bet Brian was unfaithful to Nancy. Igor: How do you know? Maybe it was Nancy who had a w

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今天我们要学的词是glitch。 Glitch是小的故障或是瑕疵。A technical glitch, 是指技术上的故障,a security glitch, 是指安全方面的漏洞。The developers postponed the release of the new software due to a technical glitc

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By Trish Anderton Jakarta 12 October 2007 Five years ago, explosions tore through two nightclubs in Bali, Indonesia, killing 202 people. The blasts put a terrorist group called Jemaah Islamiyah on the map. But they also put it squarely in the sights

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You've been kiss by the Sun Like a ... to the sky Embrace your shadow 'Cause I feel your hand in mine In I won't let go No, I don't let go And here, in this moment You secrets turning to mine Lingering and fallin' 'Cause here's we come to live So we

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Theres a mirror in the sky Shining down on me See my reflection rising high With every progress I make I feel the places so amazing along the way And let the light the way the music takes me high Don't want your trouble Just a lover and a friend And

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My body shivers In the cold sweat Underneath the darkness How could I forget? Illness inside my brain Driving me insane Like a hurricane Like a hurricane Woooho, like a hurricane Woooho, like a hurricane Like a hurricane Breathing in me brain There's

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学英语单词
air-to-oil cooler
alazocine
aldoalcoketose
alecia
alloy treatment
alpha-adrenergic receptor
Amazon B.
analytic family
automatic hysteresis loop recorder
barnshoot
be contagious
belonogov
Bible-pounding, Bible-pounching
bitternesses
bleeder plug
bridgman technigue
bull note
castelo rodrigo
cathode ray picture tube
compensated gamma-ray chamber
cyberflirting
decadences
devolutionary
disposalsite
dryside
Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East
equidensitometry
fan dryer
farceuse
gas boriding
gegam
genus Polemonium
geodetic network
golf gloves
grapes of wrath
group lead track
harbouring feamale
hault
Hormisdas, Saint
icecream headache
in print
in the care of
Indois
inflated prices
internal beamsplitting layer
isoswertisin
jack kemp
katheter
laspeyres price index
lateral rectus muscles
lateromedial
leakage clause
Leptopus esquirolii
limousines
lower linkage arm
metropolitan science test
modern convenience
mountain daylight time
muck bucket
multimeric
norcross
OMSG
orason
overload simulator
pauilion
Pentadecanone-2
pepita
persuasion
poop scoop
post-floods
preboards
preludiately
princesse dresses
puka
pyone
rachioparalysis
reinjuries
roar with sth
screwing lighter
scuderi
second - degree burn
Shenzhen-style
sigmodons
site selection at engineering stage
spasmus nutans
statistical presentation
stepless speed regulating
streblid
sunroofs
surface planing machine
symphiantherous
syphon trap
tastcilien
tea block-separating sifting machine
thermoelastic problem
to be written
transient visitant
twisted effect
Vereshchaginskiy Rayon
vesicle of penis
wide-area data service
World Conference on Medical Informatics