音标:[ɪn'fɔːst] ;
a. 不利的, 不吉祥的
n. The act of making unlucky; misfortune; bad luck.

By Larry London Washington, D.C. 31 July 2006 Watch JoJo report JoJo became the youngest American musician to have a song at number one on the music charts in 2004. Since then, she has starred in two films and will release her second album. VOA's La

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A: Hows it going? B: Im great. Thanks. A: What do you need? B: I need to know if I have any fees to pay. A: Actually, you do owe some fees. B: How much do I owe? A: Your fees total $235.13. B: Thats crazy! A: You need to pay these fees soon. B: Can I

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Expressing Thanks Thanks Thank you I appreciate it. Thanks for the tour. Thanks for your time. Thank you for the nice gift. I appreciate your kindness.

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Seamus Heaney Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; as snug as a gun. Under my window a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground: My father, digging. I look down Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds Bends l

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A: Why didn't you go to school yesterday? B: I stayed home because I wasn't feeling well. A: What was your problem? B: My stomach was bothering me. A: Are you feeling any better? B: I'm still feeling a little sick. A: I'm going to the store, would yo

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Drew Gilpin Faust will be the first president since 1672 without a Harvard degree On July first, America's oldest university will get its twenty-eighth president but, most notably, its first female presiden

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Jamie Galloway is an eco-friendly fiber artist. A recent graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design, she was among 700 exhibiters at the American Craft Council Show in Baltimore, Maryland displaying their handmade jewelry, clothing, and home

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achylic
acid-resistant intalox saddle packing
acute articular rheumatism
adinandra acutifolia hand-mazz.
agetocera huatungensis
aglycogenesis
air drying neoprene sealant
andouillettes
anticipatory assimilation
apical filament
Azuqueca
bituminous road
Blue House
Breitenfurt bei Wien
brittle-lacquer technique
callowly
CLETS
coercibleness
conductor dancing
delphinic acid
diffident about
down limit
downtone
earth-covered
express wagon
farter
first son
first-order lead
focusing magnifier
food wastes
fruit inception
galium pseudo-asprellum mak
gas proofing
gas turbine moddules
gay science
got back
haifa
heythrop
homeotic complex
horizontal-control monument
impulse withstand
injection workshop
interstage coupling network
jump down somebody's throat
kinemics
knavely
laminated cylinder
level map
maintenance base
making sure
mannikins
metallic mortar
microsomal
monotonicity principle
multistylistic
neural network
Nurse Ratched
ohaguro
old-maid's bonnet
parallel turn
pastinacine
patent information services
payao
plug socket
polev
pour inhibitor
precoated plate
preglottalizing
radio broadcast
Rag and Bone
reduction valve
regular client
remoisturized
royal roads
rust preventive cutting oil
sandias
saprophytic phase
Scutellaria hunanensis
self-annihilation
self-sealing oil seal
shadow-mark
ship-aircraft search pattern
sicarian
slidingvane
stripped surface
submarine rescue chamber
substitute royal form
substitution statement
telecamer
the Bank for International Settlements
thereaways
tilianine
topographic survey party
tow truck
transport drift
triple agency
turnvereins
unfletch'd
whitret
wild apple
with all one's force