skaith (plural skaiths)
(Scotland, law, obsolete) Alternative form of scathe: damage.

Dialogue A Tina and Larry are waiting on a dock. Larry: Are you ready for our whale-watching adventure? Tina: I'm ready to go, but I'm a little uneasy. I've always been a bit scared of whales. Larry: Scared of whales? Why? Tina: I don't know. They're

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By Joseph Mok and Zhan Jun Juneau, Alaska 30 May 2006 watch Glacier Trekkers report Juneau, the capital of Alaska, was founded as a gold-mining camp 200 years ago. Today, it is filled with cruise ship passengers and people known as trekkers, who are

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by Adam Freedman Ive been getting a lot of questions lately about the legality of searches conducted by police and airport screeners. For example, Brett writes in to ask whether being stopped at a police checkpoint constitutes an illegal search. Anot

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Science and Technolgy. 科技。 The Square Kilometre Array. SKA项目。 Divide and rule. 分工合作。 The world's biggest astronomy project is split between Africa and Australasia. That gives South Africa, in particular, a chance to show its sci

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Senator Earl Adams recently admitted that he had been having sex with prostitutes. He claimed, however, that he actually wasnt having sex with them; he was just talking to them. But he did admit that he wore diapers during some of those conversations

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By Tendai Maphosa Harare 09 August 2006 Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa The trial of Zimbabwe's justice minister for attempting to obstruct the course of justice finally got under way after a retired magistrate was appointed to preside over the c

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[Scene: Central Perk, all six are there.] Monica: Would you let it go? It's not that big a deal. Ross: Not that big a deal? It's amazing. Ok, you just reach in there, there's one little maneuver, and bam, a bra right out the sleeve. All right, as far

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Sometimes I find that I get too sentimental when I think of you Sometimes it helps to play some heavy heavy metal But somehow heavy metal makes me think of you too I met you on a road of corduroy and maple and I sang to you Early one morning drinking

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Todd: So, Asako, you lived in the United States for a long time. Asako: For six years. Todd: That's a pretty long time. Asako: That's right. Todd: Where did you live? Asako: I lived in Alaska. Todd: Alaska. Asako: That's right. Todd: The last frontie

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Alaska Governor Palin to resign Former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has announced she will resign as governor of Alaska on 26 July and not run for re-election. Mrs Palin's term of office was due to end in 2010. Some have specul

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. The United States has had fifty states for fifty years. Alaska and Hawaii both joined the Union in nineteen fifty-nine. They were the fi

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EXPLORATIONS - Music Would Not Be The Same Without the Guitar Im Steve Ember. And Im Phoebe Zimmermann with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about a very popular musical instrument. Listen and see if you can guess what it is. If you

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Plants Weaken Without Insects Bugging Them Evolutionary pressures The new study examines how insects and plants are still co-evolving. Anurag Agrawal studies evolution in real-time. The Cornell University professor of ecology and evolutionary biology

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英语作文 Have you ever imagined a world without trees? Try it, and you will see the whole world dry up and look like a broken tortoise shell. At night, the temperature would drop sharply. Living creatures could not run away and it would be as if the

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MELBOURNE, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Former French Open champion Li Na knocked out fourth-seeded Polish Agnieszka Radwanska in straight sets to reach her third Australian Open semifinals here on Tuesday. The Chinese top player's 7-5, 6-3 victory will set h

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By Laura Adams. In this episode Ill discuss payroll tax withholding. Understand what exactly is taken out of your paycheck and when youll need to adjust your allowances. How Withholding Works When you take a new job, one of the forms you complete for

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音乐咖啡厅:Ylamproductions - Life, Love, and Faith 相关介绍:YLAMPRODUCTIONS出生于香港,现年21岁,就读于澳大利亚音乐学院(Australian Institute of Music)!从小受到音乐的熏陶,有一个属于自己的Band,梦

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BEIJING, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Czech third seed Tomas Berdych muscled out top seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France here on Saturday to reach the final of the 2.1-million-U.S.-dollar China Open ATP tournament, while Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska saw off Ital

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今天我们要学的词是, withstand。 Withstand, 是经受、承受的意思。Withstand the test of time, 是指经受得住时间的考验。美国加州南部野火肆虐,但是很多经济学家认为,当地的多元经济能够承受这场

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As Afghanistan continues its struggle to defeat Taliban insurgents and rebuild its infrastructure, the nation is finding strong support from the middle of the United States, in the state of Nebraska. Since 1973, long before Afghanistan gained world

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a black mark
adnexas
Ahlfeld's sign
air insulated terminal box
allowance payment
amplitude segmentation
auxiliary work
barometric leg condenser
bean flour
brake shoe hinge pin
bukovske vrchy (bukovec mts.)
cardiodynamics
ceilin'
closed circuit anesthesia
computer learning
crop-dusting
cutino
departmentalization of overhead costs
descending velocity
differential thermometric titration
diimine
direct fertilizer
douglascele
eliminate disease
elkstones
Estm.
euchring
factoring agent
farmstays
file holder
floating moss
forwarned
Hans Jurgen Eysenck
ill-scraped
image enlarger lamp
inspiratory crackles
Itapicuru
Jagdalak
kipper tie
korari
landing point real time prediction
lava tunnel
lead content in urine
light run
likelihood-ratio test
magnetic-vane meter
mercury pool cathode
mixed episode
molybdenumpermalloy
monk-corn
monthly churn
morphogenetic
motor-circuit switch
multioperator
musen
N,4-acetylsulfanilamide
non sliding vane pump
nonfloating rail
object colo(u)r
obnubilating
one way circuit
organosilicone
paleoclimatologies
paraxial beam
phanero-
phylotype
pized
Porcos, I.dos
prepeening
proper loan
pseudothallus
pulp mill digester
recoil fluid
rheographic
roastability
robert lee frosts
roofing plume
rubbish-bins
salsolinol
scale model flow
scarf weld
scsrsesasms-s
self-sterilizer
sennidin
seroquel
soft iron shunt
solar engine
specimen-holder assembly
spectral discriminator
Spruce Lake
synagogue-goer
thermotechnical
Thickness taper
time harmonics
topologist
triphane
tufted shoot
unslackening
Vychodočeský Kraj
wake strength
word cycle operation
Zanonia indica