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A gem stone plucked from the earth, the sea, or riverbed, often travels across continents to cutting and polishing workshops; and those are increasingly found in India. Far away, the Belgian city of Antwerp is still king in diamond trading. In these

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(125) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(九月)

I could feel it was too early again when I woke, and I knew I was getting the schedule of my days and nights slowly reversed. 当我醒来的时候,我发觉时间还太早。我知道自己正在慢慢地颠倒着昼夜的作息时间。 I lay in

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Well it's gonna fit. Some point is gonna found. We're off the ground here. After last night's narrow miss,Wayne's trebuchet is repositioned to be more in line with the target. All we're doing is shift

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With the Mongols expelled, the new rulers, the Ming emperors, were determined that an invasion would never happen again. And so in 1368, when Europe was being decimated by the Black Plague(黑死病, 鼠

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Broadcast: Jan 30 2003 John Snow, the railroad executive tapped by President Bush to succeed another industrialist as U.S. treasury secretary, says the economy can sustain large budget deficits in the

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Song:Turn To Stone Artist:Girls Aloud Don't turn away Keep me holding on Don't turn away Just don't leave me now You're moving in circles Looking for the love that I thought we made While I stand alone Say you wanna be certain Certain that this f

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In Puerto Rico many years ago near the Condado Lagoon, there lived a poor fisherman. He lived alone in a hut. His only companion(同伴)was his dog. The fisherman and his dog were devoted to each other. They might be seen strolling(散步)on th

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今天我们要给大家介绍的两个习惯用语都是以cut这个字为主的。Cut这个字和其他有些英文字一样,在跟别的字合在一起成为俗语,俚语的时候会有不同的意

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我们已经讲过两个以cut 这个字为主的习惯用语。让我们先来复习一下cut是怎么拼的。Cut这个字最普通的意思就是用刀把什么东西切开。可是,在今天我们

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(182) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

我们今天要讲的第一个习惯用语是美国人用得非常普遍的,而且也很形像。这个习惯用语就是:To stonewall. Stonewall是一个字,但是很明显,它是由stone和w

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(148) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

在这次节目里我们要给大家介绍两个都是以wall这个字为主的习惯用语。Wall这个字是什么意思呢?Wall就是一堵墙的墙。有不少习惯用语都跟wall这个字有关

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(217) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

Justin got off the R train at Whitehall Street in downtown Manhattan. After climbing one flight of stairs, he climbed three more. He stopped to catch his breath and study the city map on the station wall. It showed that the MTA Service Center was nea

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4CaveKids JackandAnniecrepttothecaveandpeekedinside. Asmallflamedancedfromabedofglowingcoals. Nearthefirewereknives,axes,andhollowed-outstones. Animalskinswereneatlystackedagainstthewall. Peoplemustlivehere,saidAnnie. MaybeitsthehomeoftheCro-Ma

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The story goes that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. 两个朋友结伴穿越沙漠,旅途中二人突然吵了起来,其中一个掴

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今天我们要学的词是clear-cut。 Clear-cut, 是清楚的,明确的。There was no clear-cut winner in the debate, 这场辩论没有明确的胜利者。Last year's championship team is not the clear-cut favorite for this season, 去年的冠军

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(135) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

今天我们要学的词是cut back。 To cut back, 意思是减少。由于冬天客流量少,A rail service will cut back the number of trains it runs from 18 to 10, 一家火车公司决定将客运列车数量从18列减少为10列。General Mi

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今天我们要学的词是stepping stone. Stepping is spelled s-t-e-p-p-i-n-g, stepping; and stone, s-t-o-n-e, stone; stepping-stone. Stepping-stone是为了达到目的而准备垫脚石,敲门砖。阿尔及利亚最近举行议会选举,Alger

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I just want a trim. My hair's too long. 我只想修一下。我的头发太长了。 Trim 修剪(剪得少) My hair dresser cut my hair too short. I just wanted a trim. 我的理发师给我剪得太短了。我只想要修一下。 Can you just

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Three guys are in a bar discussing how much their wives bitch at them. Theydecide that when they get home, they'll do everything that the women ask. The next weekend, they are in the same bar. The first guy says Man, I don't think that our idea was s

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(164) / 评论(0) 分类 趣味英语

Dropping to the floor in front of a startled scrubwoman, she hopped up, brushed the rushes off her clothes, and was off again, 待她跳下窗口,正落在一名吃惊的洗衣妇面前,她立刻翻身,拍拍尘土,继续逃跑。 out the doo

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学英语单词
abbreviated address calling
aeronautical engineers
after hours value
against actual
air crossing
alphabetic code
Amakazari-yama
androcentrisms
article generation
Ashikari
assises
Authorized Forex Dealer
bannerfishes
blow football
bragg gray principle
class prejudice
couffignal
data-in-line
demagoguery
diachroneities
digital image processing (dip)
dirty wars
discharging test
discrete frequency function
disfraught
double dot display
dow oscillator
elact
fantasticks
felted membrane
ferrolite
filali
format control revision
frequency stabilizer
gabazine
gismoes
globesity
glycerol epoxy resin
groutnoll
Hadean eon
hedquists
herringtons
High Roding
horikawa's brown bat
huggability
Hughes County
Ihugh
index organization
Indigofera mekongensis
infrictions
intensity-modulated indicator
intercalary attachment
interevent
irradiated milk
Jamal
juvember
kalaite
Manitou Springs
Marthritic
maximum independent set
mean-square-root error
Mesona
metallic rectifier
Milne
misline
mockingly
multicelluar electrostatic voltmeter
Ndikeva, Mt.
non-ionic catalysis
obsolescene
paranthostomella cynanchi
partially omitting of interactions
pioneer tree
procatalepsis
prosier
quench one's hope
Rion-des-Landes
schucking
secondary maintenance
sell-on
semi-insulator
shag me
SkyWiper
slow-motion videodisk recorder
slow-release selay
Sorbonne
sorellas
staticorgan
success rates
supervision in advance
task activation
telautomatics overhead transporter
temperature differential filter
tree frog
trithioglycerin
Troyanovo
turbojet missile
Unaka Mountains
undefeatableness
Valentin's pseudoganglion
velocity inertial radar navigation system
walliser