音标:['hɔmәk] ;
n. [地](冰原上的)冰丘,堆积冰
n. A small eminence of a conical form, of land or of ice; a
knoll; a hillock. See Hummock.

Muslim-American Children Make Mock Pilgrimage to Mecca More than 1.5 million Muslims from around the world have gathered in Mecca for the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage, which begins later this week. At a Washington area mosque, American Muslim children

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(248) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(十一月)

Noam Chomsky is an American author, lecturer, linguist, philosopher, and political commentator. He is a top professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His ideas completely changed teachers understanding of how we lea

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The One With the List -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally written by Marta Kauffman and David Crane Trascribed by Mindy Mattingly Phillips [mmat

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Today's topic is who versus whom. I've received three requests from listeners to cover this topic. Here's Noreen: I just wondered if possibly in one of your episodes you could go through the use of who versus whom. I think that's a common misundersta

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Who and whom have to be two of the most difficult words in English. Luckily, we've already spent two articles on the ins and outs. Unfortunately, though, some people are still confused. They may even find themselves agreeing with William Safire, who

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Grammar Girl here. It was almost exactly a year ago when I did the first show about who versus whom. In that show I only covered the simple cases, and lately I've been getting questions that made me think I should delve deeper into the topic. So toda

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 03 April 2007 Since 1984, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, have helped build homes for the poor through a charitable group called Habitat for Humanity. As we hear from Mike O'Sullivan, the Cart

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BERLIN, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- German international and Bayern Munich's offensive all-rounder Thomas Mueller extended his running contract until June 2017, the club said in an official statement on Wednesday. Bayern Munich youth product Thomas Mueller e

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Over the weekend, the University of Mississippi rededicated the home of Nobel Prize novelist William Faulkner following a 1.3-million-dollar restoration. Faulkner bought the antebellum house in 1930 and named it Rowan Oak after the qualities of the

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John Ydstie: On Wednesdays our business news takes a look at the workplace. Today, a perennial problem: when to put your foot down , say no to the boss, and choose life over work. That's one of the many questions Lisa Belkin explores in her column. S

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Michael Kitchen The head of the United Nations' refugee agency says security in Afghanistan is still inadequate and is asking the international community to increase its presence in the country. U.N.

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By Mike O'Sullivan Ft. Irwin, California 24 July 2006 Deep in the California desert, the U.S. military is training soldiers in the techniques of fighting an urban insurgency. The National Training Center at Fort Irwin, where troops work with Iraqi-A

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Bikes are delivered to San Jose, Honduras through the Bikes for the World program Americans bought an estimated eighteen and a half million bicycles last year. Some bikes never get much riding. Mos

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By Tendai Maphosa London 29 March 2008 Zimbabwean law does not allow citizens outside the country to vote. But to show their solidarity with Zimbabweans who are voting in Saturday's elections, some of those in the diaspora have organized mock balloti

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By Alisha Ryu Kisumu, Kenya 21 January 2008 Uganda is strongly denying reports from Kenya that it has sent troops to help President Kibaki to quell opposition protests in the western part of the country. Anti-Ugandan sentiments are running high in th

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By Barry Newhouse Islamabad 17 October 2007 Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto says her arrival in Pakistan on Thursday will mark the country's transition from dictatorship to democracy. In a televised address from Dubai carried live on major Pakis

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They did that restruction in 2012.They have brought themselves 3 to complete that restruction at which point they are going have to refinance.I think whether or not that will be succesful depends on another thing,whether or not they can make the cuts

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今天我们要学的词是mock election。 Mock election, 是模拟选举的意思。虽然孩子们不能投票,但每次大选都是对他们进行选举教育的天赐良机。 In classrooms across the nation, students have been casting ballots

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今天我们要学的词是mock election。 Mock election, 是模拟选举的意思。虽然孩子们不能投票,但每次大选都是对他们进行选举教育的天赐良机。 In classrooms across the nation, students have been casting ballots

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By Jeff Feuer Alexandria, Virginia 18 February 2008 Every year on the third Monday in the month of February, the United States observes what is known as President's Day as a celebration to honor America's first president, George Washington, and the 1

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学英语单词
a and b roll editing
AARS
actings
Agapetes anonyma
agressire
airspace warning area
andoany (helville)
b.b.d
be a fair bet
big-money
Borrelia mucosa
bulleid
business of taking deposits
Callendar's equation
Capalbio
champagne socialist
chant royal
cloth oil
composite synthetic fibre
curved exponential family
daigle
deathpunk
derivatively
dinards
director circle
doublepresure ring
dz.
easy to machine
encrypt
ethical dilemma
exurb
fat fingers
fellations
fixed-bed drying system
fore-edge painting
free-standing bell tower
frontal organ
fusarium oxysporum spinaciae
G & T
glycerol tristearate
half pipe
heptahelicenes
high renaissances
high-level programming language
hoe strolls
horizontal opposed type engine
htls
hylophage
hylyphantes graminicola
Hystricidea
infinite symmetric product
integral control
key extractor
laplacian distrbution
lashes into
last four
magnetic absorption
marvasti
maternal cousins
medical entomology
middle management training
milli-amp
mocking ads
musculus obliquus bulbi inferior
naphthophenanthrene
neural groove
non-flowing confined water
non-repairable component
nonflexural
Novopetrovskoye
octahedral layer
overlume
parallel arithmetic unit
Pedicularis odontochila
pink cockatoo
pissing some things
pleurapophyses
polygonal mirrors
probe charge
Pygoscelis adeliae
root growth hormone
set sth to defiance
short of cash
shower with
Sinocastor
solution-ion
sonia
spiral bevel gear cutting machine
spring-loaded oil control ring
squall (sq)
standard value of production
submarine transmission cable
symbolic annihilation
tax payers personally filing returns
technetium-99
thermal piercing
Thibet cloth
thyropharyngeal muscle
two way linkage
uninstituted
verified correct
yaje