nice as ninepence (not comparable)
(simile) Neat, tidy, in order

Lesson 15: Fifty pence worth of trouble 五十便士的麻烦 Listen to the tape then answer the question below. 听录音,然后回答以下问题。 Did George get anything for his fifty pence? What? Children always appreciate small gifts of money

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Most people do their shopping in a supermarket, but for fresh fruit and vegetables, many shoppers prefer an outdoor market. It’s summer, and the stores are full of soft fruit, like strawberries, pea

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NOEL KING, HOST: In addition to his statements and moves on immigration, President Trump has also been holding a lot of campaign rallies lately. Last night, he was in South Carolina, where Governor Henry McMaster faces a primary runoff today. (SOUNDB

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3 IM THE MOST terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible. So when I told old Spencer I had

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Todd: Lois, what was your first job? Lois: The first job I had was a sales assistant in a shoe shop. Todd: Oh, shoesLois: Shoe shop, yeah! When I was fifteen, I got my first job and I used to work every Saturday for maybe 8 hours a day and I used to

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学英语单词
a sense of direction
abaci
active sediment
acute cerebral meningitis
ahyperlipemia
akaike
aksakal
AMY1
apparent source
asphalt saturated felt
bakelite junction box
be remarkable for
blow his top
Burnaby, Mt.
car kilometers
central reinsurance corp
centrifugal muller
Cohn's butter
cold roll
concurrent authority
connecting transformer
Copperin
cortancyl
cowyard flavour
cyberlingo
disrationate
Distinguishable Injury
estimation sampling
face putty
fair as a rose
fluorescent fixtures
flying-aperture scanner
formal charge
glottal stop
gutoes
hall-ways
hidden loss
hunt group
immersed electrode furnace
insufficient prestation
interim rent
jaculates
jearl
lapunyah
larraine
long-drive
maximally flat amplitude approximation
medicinal carbon
micro pressure gauge micro pressure gage
miscegenationist
Mohawk R.
multischool
musicals
Nassau I.
next - day delivery
notched underlated preheater
omnifont recognition
outside matching point
oyster dressings
paunce
payce
pentadecanal
physiophilosophy
pneumopyelogra
porcelain with care
postlethwaite
praetarsus
projecting eaves
pseudo-tracheae
read law
reciprocal chiasmata
retained nitrogen
row-crop cultivator
rub boards
rurbanites
saturniid moth
scatter angle
secondary flaw
shakycam
shelvesets
short-term unemployment
skipping a beat
Skye, Isle of
sodium pyroarsenite
solid catcher
staff light
stationary projector
stays at
submarine signal
subsea manifold
sun printing
swot for
taguchi
tokee
tunster
ulitis
unbanished
unpastor
vax / vms
viral gastroenteritis
wackaloons
windlass room