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n. [昆]爪垫
n. One of the minute cushions on the feet of certain
insects.

Stephen Foster, 1826-1864: America's First Popular Songwriter He wrote more than two hundred songs during the eighteen forties and eighteen fifties. VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program

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By Lisa Bryant Paris 14 June 2006 French President Jacques Chirac and Israeli PM Ehud Olmert, left, share a few words on the steps of the Elysee Palace following their meeting in Paris Israeli and French leaders met in Paris Wednesday to discuss con

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Russian troops have no timetable for withdrawing from Georgia under a cease-fire agreement both sides have signed. Lavrov told reporters in Moscow today the pullout is contingent on the security situation

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STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. FAITH LAPIDUS: And Im Faith Lapidus. Every ten years the United States government counts the national population and asks people questions about how they live. Results fr

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 25 February 2007 Palestinian youths throw stones toward Israeli soldiers, not seen, during an Israeli army operation in the West Bank City of Nablus, 25 Feb 2007 Israeli forces have raided the biggest Palestinian town in t

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By Gary Thomas Washington 16 October 2006 A Japanese woman reads an extra special edition newspaper reporting about North Korea's nuclear test, distributed in downtown Tokyo, October 9, 2006 North Korea, which recently conducted an underground nucle

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By Margaret Besheer Beirut 27 August 2006 Lebanese Sobhi Abbas, top, comforts his son Abbas Abbas, 6-years-old, who was injured while playing with a cluster bomb in Blida, on Saturday August 26, 2006 Two weeks ago, a U.N. brokered truce ended 34 day

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New Survey Finds 1/3 of World's Population Overweight Obesity is not just an American problem anymore. A recent international survey by the Worldwatch Institute, found that nearly two billion people around the world are overweight. Health statistics

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By David Gollust State Department 31 October 2009 U.N. torture investigator Manfred Nowak speaks during a media conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, 29 Oct 2009 The United States Friday expressed regret over Zimbabwe's expulsion this week of a

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to pull no punches straight from the horse's mouth 大多数人都认为诚实和坦率是一个很好的品质,尽管我们不见得每时每刻都能够做到,美国人也不例外。在美国的日

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By Phuong Tran Bandala, Chad 18 May 2007 Over the past year in eastern Chad, dozens of communities have fled fighting between rebel groups and Janjaweed militias based in Sudan. The scorched landscape along the remote far east, along the border with

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今天我们要学的词是exclusive。 Exclusive, 独家的,独有的。An exclusive interview, 独家专访。The Golf Channel will have exclusive rights to the Tournament, 高尔夫球频道享有这次锦标赛的独家转播权。 The kidnappe

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Washington Homeowners Live in Modern Village The neighborhood in northwest Washington D.C. looks like a typical American townhouse development, but Takoma Village Cohousing is anything but ordinary. The privately-owned units cluster around a shared o

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Moderator : Ladies and Gentlemen: The President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. President Reagan : Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. And , Reverend Clergy all, Senator Hawkins, distin

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3-Methyl-2-cylpantene-2-ol-1-one
a prejudice in favour of
absolute cross-section
affreight
Ajā', Jibāl
aluminium-copper-iron
American dog tick
Anglophonia
bank officer
Belle Chasse
branchwood collecting machine
cadwgans
canceliering
checkout local version
chinamex
clutterbuck
combination block
constraint holonomic
contractual capacity
covers your ass
Créoles, R.des
current bedding
danglas
de-sliming
discount rate
Eckankar
effect of population density
El Calabacito
El Real de la Jara
embroiders
Fabrikoid
fermentability
Ferreira do Zêzere
fiacco
flat meter rate
fluency in english
frontal appendage
fruit pulp centre
fumatory
fur dyes
gel precipitation probability
glancer
greenish-grey
guessingly
half wave voltage doubler
half-wave rectifier tube
handpick miner
handsier
high field domain luminescence
highrises
hooer
in-the-rounds
installs
introduced patch
irregular menstruation hysteroptosis
Jeannette Rankin
Keynesian Cross
kubur
l/drs (level and density recorder switch)
laminating roller
length-fixed drill boom
liberty bells
liquid toliet soap
lithoform
Malpighia obovata
marth
medium-lift pump
Metztitlan
MO2
myosalpingitis
Nanakru
network approach
Nifehexal
pachyprotasis erratica
peripheral giant-cell reparative granuloma
Peter Behrens
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point mutations
proteinuric
punga
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routine compiler
sea-going ships
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serangitis
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sindone
sum of squared errors (sse)
superpressed plywood
surface passivation technology
take enjoyment in
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trot someone off his legs
uk agent
unkillability
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world's record