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n. 塞斯特蒂厄姆(古罗马货币单位)

1Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without victims! 2The crack of whips, the clatter of wheels, galloping horses and jolting chariots! 3Charging cavalry, flashing swords and glittering spears! Many casualties, piles of d

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(157) / 评论(0) 分类 那鸿书

Im not coming to this art fair again, said Molly. Why arent you coming to this art fair again? asked Teri. There arent enough visitors, Molly said. Thats for sure, said Teri. There arent enough visitors spending money. Thats for sure, said Molly. Vis

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - New Young Artists Honored With Awards from Scholastic Corporation CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Christopher Cruise. On our program this week, we play music from Lady Gagas latest

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Smirting 以借火和某人搭讪 Diarmuid: Hello Im Diarmuid. Feifei: Why are you looking so happy Diarmuid? Diarmuid: Well, earlier today, I was outside on my telephone, when a lady asked me for a lighter. I think she might have been trying to smir

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I join my colleague Mr. Rangel in thanking you for giving the junior members of this committee the glorious opportunity of sharing the pain of this inquiry. Mr. Chairman, you are a strong man, and it has not be

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Ted Hughes I climbed through woods in the hour-before-dawn dark. Evil air, a frost-making stillness, Not a leaf, not a bird,-- A world cast in frost. I came out above the wood Where my breath left tortuous statues in the iron light. But the valleys

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by Mignon Fogarty People often ask how to use ellipses, those little dot-dot-dots you often see in e-mail messages. For example, Mitra from Michigan asked, When is it appropriate to use '...' in writing? People use it all the time, and it seems like

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Several listeners have written with questions on when to use the definite article the, the indefinite article a, or neither. For example, Tracy W. wrote, Which is correct: Thank you for taking time to review my application, or Thank you for taking th

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AMERICAN MOSAIC -April 12, 2002: Artists Honored at an African American Awards Ceremony / Yosemite National Park / New Museum of Folk Art HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC — VOA’s radio magazine in

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By Scott Stearns White House 03 May 2006 President Bush is instructing health officials to stockpile anti-viral drugs in preparation for a possible outbreak of Avian Flu. Scientists expect the flu to

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Ne ga weon ha neun de ro Ja sin in neun mo seub keu dae ro I jek keo sum gyo watteon bi mi leul Ne ga mo du mal ha go sipeo (Baby) Funny How All Dreams Come True Na lul ji kyo jul kkeo ya Ak kyeo watteon ja geun sa lang do Funny How I Feel For You Ne

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Young Kenyan Artists Face Tough Market At the Kuona Trust, a visual arts center in a Nairobi suburb, artists work out of converted shipping containers. Kuona's mission is to provide opportunities for its artists to produce world-class art in Kenya. S

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(八月)

First of Japan Disaster Survivors Get Temporary Houses A month after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami devastated northeastern Japan, more than 125,000 people remain in evacuation centers. Others are living with relatives. Most of th

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Contemporary Events Inspire Arab Hip-Hop Artist A Moroccan woman who only discovered her talent as a hip-hop performer when she came to study in London is now at the forefront of this musical genre. Master Mimz delivered her own commentary on the Ara

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Todd: Shona, do you have any talents or interests like art or music or cooking? Shona: Yeah. Actually, I really, really enjoy art. I like to sort of study different artists and look at art from the past, but I also paint myself so I like to go to art

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 03 May 2006 U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says he expects the United States to be able to reduce its troop strength in Iraq once the new government takes office. The sec

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The black-and-white film The Artist was the big winner at Sunday's 84th Annual Academy Awards -- the Oscars -- capturing best picture and major awards for its director and lead actor. Frenchman Jean Dujardin won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(306) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- The contender for top Academy Awards including best director and picture The Artist won big at the 27th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards held Saturday afternoon in Santa Monica, California, grossing four major ho

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Veteran Oscar Host Billy Crystal opened the 84th Academy awards ceremony Sunday with jokes about his age and attempts to attract a younger audience to the annual show. The segment included a long pause while Crystal, who has hosted the awards show ni

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(291) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

AMERICAN MOSAIC - Artists Paint the Town in Baltimore JUNE SIMMS: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im June Simms. This week on our program, we talk to Ben Nichols, lead singer and songwriter for the band Lucero. We also repo

发表于:2019-03-16 / 阅读(1693) / 评论(0) 分类 2012年VOA慢速英语(四)月
学英语单词
adjoining rock stability
Adozon
Ara-kawa
archchaplain
bcn-business computer network
Betzenweiler
blue vein
broke open
byte multiplexer
chill perishable
choiring
client relations
cold peening
compensatory hyperfunction
cryptomerism
deacylbrownioside
discharge sutter
double tapered roller
Edenized
end-of-transmission-block character
epoxy resin finish
filenames
first focal length
flat hand
fold back effect
Forgotten Generation
fortunel
glycyrrhizas
Gynadromorphism
hexathionic acid
horsing
hot box process
imries
interior alleyway
ischemia of intestine
Kanjar
kneesie
kronkite (kr?hnkite)
krupenia
Leperditicopida
Ligamentum conoideum
lovalto
marginal current
matrix of cocycle basis
maximum efficiency point
Medimachine
mining structure
nerve function
nine old men
nitzschia socialis
non-people
numeric data item
off-fall
Office Hit List
original education
overfleece
p/b ratio
palaeoliberal
Paratran System
persuance
phototelegraphic receiver
phouthangs
pile column
poison arrow frogs
postboarding
pourdown
prescheduled algorithm
prochiralities
pseudo-intellectual
randomizings
reflection electron microscopy
religious mysticisms
rooser
saharas
salsaparilha
saviourless
sequences of intervals
sgor
singabler
Somatokine
special weapon
specific support
spherical symmetry
spring catch
supply chain management
Tamdy
tectonic landforms
tentens
the brave
three-dimensional colour display
tracheocarcinoma
trigeminal branches
tyre bead
uninstructive
untrueness
water-budge
wind suction
wire strop
x-ray diffraction (xrd)
Zacharias, Saint
zero points
ziploc