音标:[,hemә,dainә'mɔmitә] ;
血压计
n. An instrument by which the pressure of the blood
in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will
raise a column of mercury; -- called also a haemomanometer.

A: Whoa, I never saw a meter like this before; how do you use it? B: It's simple, once you do it a few times. Do you know how the old one worked? A: I never used a parking meter before. B: So we start out by deciding whether you will use cash or a cr

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By Al Pessin Washington 24 February 2006 There has been renewed controversy during the past week about conditions at the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay. A panel of United Nations exp

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第26期:Something Wrong with the Meter Y:What's the fare,please? Y:请问车费是多少呢? X:Twenty dollars and sixty cents. X:20.60美元。 Y:What?You're overcharging me! Y:什么?你一定多收我的钱了! X:No way.Look.That's what the mete

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1. barometer /bəˈrɔmitə/ -- instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure as an aid in determining probable weather changes When the barometer indicates a rapid drop in air pressure, it means a storm is coming. 气压计显示出气压快速下降时

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Alien Asteroid Could Be Oldest Object in Our Solar System Astronomers have been closely watching an object that travels in an orbit around our sun. Astronomers say this object -- an asteroid -- circles the sun in the same orbital path as the planet J

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By Al Pessin Guantanamo 01 February 2006 At the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba nearly 500 detainees, most of them captured during the Afghanistan war, await release or trial. M

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By Stephanie Ho Washington 26 March 2007 An Australian detainee held by U.S. authorities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is to be the first so-called enemy combatant tried under a new military commission procedure that was approved by the U.S. Congress last

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A decades-old U.S. government program to send future leaders from foreign countries to the United States is gaining new attention - particularly in France, where it is targeting minorities, including Muslims, and aims to present a more accurate imag

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.S. military judges in Guantanamo acted quickly Wednesday morning to suspend two of the 21 terrorism trials now in progress, based on a request from the Obama administration. Judges in the other trials are expected to do the same. Image reviewed by

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U.S. President Barack Obama is seeking to suspend military trials for terror suspects at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. President Barack Obama Late on Tuesday as party-goers were leaving the festive inaugural balls, President Obam

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In a major reversal of Bush administration policies, President Barack Obama has ordered the shutdown of the U.S. terror detention facility at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. Mr. Obama has also ordered a review of military trials for terror suspects a

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Terror suspect Binyam Mohamed, who was a British resident, has returned to the United Kingdom after being released from Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, where he had been held by U.S. military authorities for more than four years. Mohamed says he went

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Senior European Union officials head to Washington on Monday for a two-day trip to gain more information about Guantanamo inmates it may be asked to take in after the United States closes the detention camp in Cuba. Camp Delta Cell Block for uncoope

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英语新词:这些meter后缀单词 你理解对了么? anemometer n. 风力计,[气象] 风速计。 audiometer n. [耳鼻喉] 听度计,听力表;测听计;音响测定器。 barometer n. [气象] 气压计;晴雨表;显示变化的事物

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By Al Pessin Guantanamo 07 February 2006 According to the U.S. military the number of hunger strikers among detainees at the Guantanamo detention facility has fallen to just four, from a high of 84 in

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 04 June 2007 A U.S. military judge has dismissed charges against a detainee at the Guantanamo detention center, based on a technical issue that could affect all the current and potential charges against detainees. The Defense De

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 10 January 2007 This week marks the fifth anniversary of the detention center for terrorism suspects at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The anniversary is rekindling the debate over the facility, with human rights

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By Scott Stearns White House 14 June 2006 President Bush says he understands that the continuing detention of suspected terrorists at a U.S. military base in Cuba is hurting America's image abroad, but he says it is necessary to protect the nation.

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By Al Pessin Washington 19 May 2006 U.S. military guards at the Guantanamo detention center fired rubber shotgun pellets and used batons and shields to put down a small but violent riot by detainees T

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GEORGE BUSH wanted to close it. So did John McCain. And Barack Obama promised to do so within a year of taking office. But nearly three years since then, and ten years after the first inmates stepped through its barbed-wired gates in January 2002, th

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a faraway look
airplane meteorograph
angle of cirumference
antagonistic inhibition
anti-climaxes
be but and ben with
bearing only
binder concentration
bolt-
bottle glorifiers
cadaverous
calf round
carboxymethyluridine
Cartes synoptique
circumscribed external otitis
color specification
colourcoded
commercial bill of exchange
conscionableness
cruising engine unit
culturagram
current-limiting circuit breaker
dansgaard
disorder transition
disutility of labor
doctrine of forest rent
dodads
ECDC
eddy-current rail brake
enculturating
exhaust whistle
fernless
Finguila
Folin-Cannon-Denis method
foreign shipowner
genus Dipsacus
give sb. line enough
gracefully
groupset
hardbag
heel hang
helicopter gravity
heteroscelus incanuss
housesat
hysteroid
i maccabeess
induced absoption band
infrared sky map
kelleg
linkup load trolley
local demagnetization
Loddon
malfunctions
malorum
Matfors
mine anchor
more than a match for
mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome
Mukobe
na-vyse
natural exponential families
normally-aspirated engine
Normannite
nucleus pulposus
nucleus transplantation
oil-cured
onchan
ophiophrixus
orologies
Ottoshoop
Owhango
Parasenecio tripteris
phenylcrotonic acid
phonon-assisted transition
physical investigation
plication
pluggability
positive absorption
principal scale
Prinsenbeek
printing carrier
pumpellyite- (mg)
quintuplicating
readiers
rengoes
resorts
scaritine
seagull manager
shipping-bill
sprues
stupid
supracardial bodies
the middle of the road
Tirza
traction fiber
twisted cubic
uniselector distribution frame
unsettling
value gross heating
waternut
wet-and-dry bulb thermometer
wing forward