音标:[pɔ:ˈtreɪəlz] ;
n. 画像( portrayal的复数形式 ); 描述; 描写; 描摹
n. a word picture of a person's appearance and character
n. acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture
n. a representation by picture or portraiture

2. Cleopatra,the Queen of Egypt Shortly before the birth of Christ, Egypt was still ruled by a living goddess, Cleopatra, a Greek descended from one of Alexanders generals. She looked back to the Golden Age of Alexanders world empire and was determin

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Activists Urge Hollywood to Cut Back on Smoking in Movies 活动分子呼吁好莱坞影片中减少吸烟镜头 Dr. Jonathan Fielding, the public health director for Los Angeles County, says 80 perce

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Donald Trumps top trade official has opened the door to reviving trade negotiations with the EU but warned the bloc it will be in competition with China and Japan to show willingness to do the first deal with the new US administration. 美国总统唐纳

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Q 1.quadruple We need quadruple the number of players weve got for a full orchestra. 2.qualification The qualifications gained and the skills developed on this course will provide a good basis for gaining employment in office work. 3.quantity The qua

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(WB) And as we enter this next gallery, please turn your attention to the statue on your right. It's a bust of the seventh President of the United States, Andrew Jackson. It was done by American sculptor Hiram Powers. Mr. Powers is particularly sign

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Employed women reap rewards including greater financial security, more stable marriages, better health, and, in general, increased life satisfaction. 职业女性可以收获许多成果,包括更稳定的经济与婚姻状况,更健康的身体,

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By Joseph Mok Mullinville, Kansas 10 January 2008 Driving by Highway US-400, west of the small town of Mullinville, Kansas, visitors are greeted with hundreds of metal sculptures, flapping and twirling against the blue sky on the prairie. For produce

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Wax Museum Focuses on African-Americans The 150 wax figures in the museum include educator and author Booker T. Washington, jazz legend Eubie Blake, and the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall. Theres also Harriett Tubman,

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Study Examines Racial Bias in Sports Reporting 研究探讨在体育报道的种族偏见 New research says African-American athletes are more likely to be portrayed negatively in the media than white athletes. The findings appear in a new book, enti

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: One of the best-known depictions of autism in a major film is Dustin Hoffman's character in the Oscar-winning 1988 film Rain Man. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, RAIN MAN) DUSTIN HOFFMAN: (As Raymond) Maple syrup was supposed to be on the tabl

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10 consecutive ties
adjustable weir crest
agglomerative tendencies
alkylphosphines
angioscotometry
antiseptic cotton
aseasonal
Aslian
Bacon, Francis
bat phone
boghead (coal)
botch-ups
broken orange pekoe
Buis
bushworld
canalin
Casimiroa sapota
chamois cloth
Chnofalk
Christiany
circulation memory
cog timbering
collenchymatous cell
composite video input
crinogenic
critical statistics
cross lap
current float
Daraprine
delayed income credits
displaced position
Dodecanese
ex rights
extrinsic contaminant
federal republic of nigerias
Feigenbaum functional equation
fhl
fitness test
fog dust
food self-support
full board
gamma-decay energy
Gaussian process
geoelectrical basement
GETWS (get word from string)
ginger brandy
golk
Grothendieck topologies
hirsutella versicolor
homepna
Hwangguto
in-group comparison
incremental response time
international gold standard movement
iravadia bella
Jabiru mycteria
jolanta
jumbo boom
Juris
LAP-D
living legend
meriggi
methylparoban
Moussa
mutual office
negrified
neotheophylline
nigger lovers
non-informative
nonoestrogenic
off-price
ohl
optical fiber telecommunication
Orczy, Baroness Emmuska
paleohydrologists
Poisson's summation formula
preservation of timber
purocellulose
re echo
re-potting
relay emergency valve
retroserrate
roadside bombs
rotary letterpress
sceat
shell of hawksbill turtle
shroomhead
sigmoidea
sprained
stall-holder
subicular region
swld
thalasso
there is no smoke without fire
Trommer's sign
tuero
twist someon's arm
uniform exit flow nozzle
unstayed covers
user action
Vena basalis superior
wide base rim