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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(86) / 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(145) / 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(112) / 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

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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(91) / 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(125) / 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
a killer
a tenant by courtesy
acrosyndesis(percival 1932)
air power
alembics
ant-heaps
arcyria leiocarpa
argon bulb rectifier
arteriae palatina ascendens
auxiliary haulage level
balagula
bernelle
blanking level variation
bluff
cable way
Call and Exener bodies
cantus
cash and carry wholesaler
cdcl
cheese monkey
clignancourt
coalescency
cold-short
comboloios
Cornwallis Island
current method
deep cerebral vein
defalcate with
dermal cylindroma
discandy
DIY products
double-current
electronic flowmeter system
electrostatically focused image converter
eleventh nerve
evaluative model for multiple criteria
evaporation chamber
exhalations
F. R. C. P.
family typhlopidaes
fire-smothering system
flywheel gear
froghood
gas-pressure protection
Gooseberry Creek
hanging garden
high rate digital recorder
hold switch transistor
ice protection
index of biological activity
itochu
last straws
leafed
Litsea variabilis
low-vacuum atm-degasser
luxemburg effect
micadina sonani
microprocessor system analyzer
minthea rugicollis
mixture of distributions
mjb
mukhinite
navier stokes equation
neomenthol
Nes'
nikischerite
Novoromanovka
o-tolidine dihydrochloride
official telephone
open a gap
oyez
proliferative stage
pseudofusarium fusarioideum
pseudoglottic
psychoacoustically
railway industry
Realitos
reconstruction of esophagus with colon
refrigerated cargo pallet carrier
regal fritillary
sand humidity
sandwich course placement
sensitivity of smoke detector
shoe lever lifting arm
slack coal
sounding box
Sparti(Sparta)
St Anne
steren
sublimise
tattoolike
taxi-cabs
tefted vetch
thermoelectric energy converter
thread count
timing-critical
tricam connector
Uniscept
untragically
visceral pain
water-quenching
with vigor