音标:['pʌstjuləs; -tʃu-] ;
adj. = pustular

by Mignon Fogarty This week in the United States we celebrate Veterans Day, a holiday to remember the end of World War I in 1918, but the name of the holiday brings up a common question: Do we need an apostrophe in the word Veterans? The short answer

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(220) / 评论(0) 分类 跟谢孟媛学语法

THE DREAM OF LITTLE TUK Ah! yes, that was little Tuk: in reality his name was not Tuk, but that was what he called himself before he could speak plain: he meant it for Charles, and it is all well enough if one does but know it. He had now to take ca

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1. depose /dɪˈpəʊz/ -- (literally, put down) put out of office; dethrone Did the king abdicate or was he deposed? 那个国王是自己放弃了王位还是被废的? 2. impose /imˈpəuz/ -- put on as a burden, duty, tax, etc.; inflict Cleanin

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This is the second in a two-part Business English Pod series about an internal meeting to consider a proposal. As we saw in the last episode, this type of meeting can be similar to a negotiation. People with different opinions sit around the table an

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is apostrophes. When I was in second grade, I lost a spelling bee because I misspelled the word its. I put an apostrophe in when I shouldn't have, and it was a very traumatic moment in my young life. So when listeners

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(141) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is tough apostrophe issues. I said it in the last episode about apostrophes, and I'll say it again: there are some confusing situations when it comes to apostrophes. For example, Christine, from Portland, Oregon; Judy

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Hurricane Gustav, which killed at least 22 people in Haiti, is now headed south of Cuba, but forecasters believe the storm will move north into the Gulf of Mexico by early next week and threaten a coastal area that stretches from Texas to the Florid

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(八月)

By Nancy-Amelia Collins Islamabad 01 January 2008 Pakistani officials say elections will be delayed until February because it is impossible to hold next week's parliamentary vote on time. Election Commission Secretary-General Kanwar Dilshad told rep

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By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 29 August 2007 Philippine security forces are on high alert for possible attacks by communist rebels after Dutch authorities arrested their exiled leader in the city of Utrecht. VOA's Heda Bayron reports from our Asia News Ce

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Michelle Tumes-lovely you're the sweet dreams that soothe me when i cant fall asleep you're the field in the middle of the city im rushing by in the speed of light you're the strong resolution when i found all the piece you're the church bells a ring

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Jamat ud Dawa, formerly Lashkar-e Taiba parading in a Pakistani city (file photo) Pakistan-based Lashkar-e Taiba or LET was for a long time considered a militant group fighting Indian rule of Kashmir. But after Chicago-based American David Headley pl

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Greg Flakus President Bush and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met Monday at Mr. Bush's ranch near Crawford , Texas , where they discussed Iraq and the Middle East in general. Both leaders are backin

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By Ron Corben Bangkok 21 May 2006 Aung San Suu Kyi (2002 photo) Burma's political opposition, the National League for Democracy, is hopeful of progress on democratic reform after the three-day visit o

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Obama Proposal Could Help US-Russian Ties President Obama chose an iconic Cold War location -- the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin -- to make his new arms control proposal, offering to reduce U.S. nuclear warheads by one third. I intend to seek negotiated

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I had been stressing out about it for a couple of weeks. How do I ask my girlfriend to marry me? We were getting some dinner at a fast food restaurant before going to the movies. Fiona: Tell me the truth . Whats up with you lately? Doug: Me? Nothing.

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By Erik Silk Gettysburg, PA 13 July 2006 watch Gettysburg Casino report The site of one of the most famous battles in U.S. history is now the focus of another conflict -- over a casino. This is Gettysburg, in the southern part of the U.S. state of P

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How did they ever publish this book? Did they read it before they published it? Did they ever hear of Spell Check? He couldn't believe that they charged $70 for the book. He had circled all the errors with a red pen. So he couldn't return the book. H

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By Chad Bouchard 2-337522 21 January 2007 A farmer carries buckets of water collected from a drying pond in Rembang, Central Java, Indonesia As Indonesia copes with one of its driest rainy seasons on record, a climate change study indicates global wa

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The parties to Zimbabwe's power sharing agreement have failed to agree on the allocation of cabinet posts. Tendai Maphosa reports for VOA from Harare that the opposition says the only option is intervention by the Southern African Development Commun

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(147) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(十月)

OMG! Congratulations to both of you!! How did he pop the question??OMG! 祝贺你们俩啊!!他怎么求的婚啊??

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acute toxic hepatitis
Ammanford
analysis of existing system
anandakrishnan
automated data handling
backflush chromatogram
balanced overall development planning
bid for
big five
Blanzy
boiga kraepelini
book off
breech extraction
can failure detection
car-auctions
ceratosoma sinuatum
charnwood forest
chavignol
Chlorangiaceae
chlorophorus taiwanus
cloxiquine
como-cast process
construction of infrastructural facilities
cross-flow regenerator
daffodilly
decarbonizer
decussationes tegmentorum
distinguish A from B
do one's time
drooling
earthlit
educational reform act
evaporative drying
excercitation
Faceroll
front-
geometricallysimilar pump
hard environment
highest
hiwassee
hui sh?n
hurry up the cakes
injurious deformation
inner lobe(in ammonoids)
international atomic time(tai)
kabompo
Leonard dynamo
magnetic optics
Mangamuka
mesmerical
metallic valence
Microcyprini
mine illumination
monocentric integral
Mournes
object of a right
order pseudomonadaless
overwinged
parotid abscess
partial allocation method
peace at any price
pemphigoid vegetans
photochemical cation
phyllospheric microganism
Plavolex
podocephalic canal
pourveyances
power equation
principal sum of the bill of exchange
problem reporting
Pterochore
radar-equipped inertial navigation system (reins)
radio set for rebroadcasting
Rhêmes-Notre-Dame
rice grain valve
San Dieguito
seccin
securities deposited as collateral
serf system
silk sieve cloth
Southport
specific drug
specification configuration
speckliness
start-up rod
stuck pixel
sub-cycle
super-fact
superspinatus
Sync.
taeko
tax-deferral
tower-shaped church
trophic groups of microorganisms
trunk-roads
water like substance
wayfaring trees
whoare
xanthidylic acid
ykeuered
zwickau law