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n. 【植】(马达加斯加)酒椰树 ( Raphia ruffia)
[网络] 拉菲草;拉菲亚;酒椰叶纤维

A young man whose name was Pythias had done something which the tyrant Dionysius did not like. For this offence he was dragged to prison, and a day was set when he should be put to death. His home was far away, and he wanted very much to see his fath

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Grammar Girl here. In todays episode were going to answer some bizarre and puzzling questions: Can two people share a life? Can two writers share a neck? How many heads does a person have? How many wives do certain men have? Today's guest-writer, Bon

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Most U.S. companies act swiftly and forcefully to root out discrimination based on race, sex, age, or appearance when they discover it. And there are good reasons to do so: intolerance on the job hurts morale and productivity. It's illegal under civ

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Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: May 13, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we talk to language columnist and author Barbara Wallraff about her new book. It's called Your Own Words. In it, she explains, quote, h

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MORT:King Julien,what are they? What are they?! KING:They are aliens (外星人).Savage(凶残的,未开化的) aliens from the savage future. MINISTER:Theyve come to kill us.And take our woman.And our precious metals(金属). KING:Get up

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abundance of isotopes
adjacency relation
ambulance barge
antalgesica
archiepiscopates
bawlings
Berlin-blue
betita
block logic computer
brags on
breast bench
burdin
celesco
channel control command
chronostratigraphic chart
cooling bed shears
counterpotent
curry and rice
curtseyed
cyclical variation
density of load
design standards manual
differential trap
disolvate
dockside trial
dollar-baseds
edematous exostosis
edge-runner dry mill
every so often
excruciation
eyepiece slide
film-metering device
flydown
forward scatter propagation
genus veronicas
granulopotent
habenular ganglia
hand drying apparatus
harmonic motion cam
herba mosiae
high-speed magnetic amplifier
Hiroshige, Ando
immunopeptidomes
insert drive valve
interpretive classification
jack base
James Buchanan Brady
jobholder
kawaguchi
Kim Son
kineticists
labour mark
level tree
Likhakhama
lotus leaf
made circuit
Malbranchea
Maroon toner
marram grass
Maytenus berberoides
mcconnells
Meclomen
metaisomerism
msstic tests
multichannel multipoint distribution service
multiple unit operation
nave-line
navigation dome
nitrogen purge line
octulosonic acid
off-flavor
officious intermeddlers
outeross
p-aminomethylbenzoic acid
patroe tor pedo boat
pivot buoy
plan of accounts
psephologist
pseudoanthropomorphic
radicates
rivanna
SIBOR
Skryabino
Smithsburg
solvent wash
steamrollered
teenest
thin airfoil theory
triboelectric means
tube bundle of tube-type heat exchanger
two-dimensional model
undreggy
unfunctionalized
valve voltage regulator
variety of crime
vor airborne equipment test facility (vot)
whitmer
wirecut EDM
wooden cover
ynogh
zakaria
ZnSO4