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n. 四肢瘫痪;四肢麻痹

New York City-based Pfizer Incorporated, the world's largest pharmaceutical company, has stopped research on torcetrapib, a drug they hoped to sell to treat heart disease. The drug was supposed to raise levels of what is known as good cholesterol. T

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(134) / 评论(0) 分类 初级商务英语听力2006

Recording technology has changed a lot over the years, but you can still do one essential thing. You sit in front of a microphone and you tell a story, which here we are again this Friday morning because it's time for StoryCorps. It's an oral history

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Driving Through a Speed Trap Angel: Why are you driving at a snails pace? Georgina: This is an infamous speed trap. I dont want to get a ticket again. Angel: I dont see any squad cars along the road. Are you sure this is the right stretch of road? Ge

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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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A mouse looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package; what food might it contain? He was aghast to discover that it was a mouse trap! Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning, There is a mous

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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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A: All the furniture in the store is on sale today? A: 店里所有的家具全都减价卖出吗? B: Yeah. The whole place is packed. You\'d better shake a leg before it\'s all gone. B: 是呀! 整个地方(店)都挤满人了。你最好在它们卖光

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 美国俚语

To shake a leg To pull one's leg 美国的成语和俗语,也和其他语言一样,有许多都是由身体各个部份的名称组成的。例如:To follow your nose是指

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By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 03 October 2007 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has arrived in Ethiopia for the first leg of an Africa visit in which she will focus on strengthening business ties, addressing the AIDS pandemic and touring development projects

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Phobias are interesting things. Some of them are very serious and can have a really negative influence on life. The most common phobias are the fear of open spaces or closed spaces and the fear of heights and flying. Doctors say all phobias are treat

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 13 November 2006 Troops in the semi-autonomous and secular region of Puntland in Somalia have reportedly been placed on full alert, after they failed to stop Somali Islamists from capturing a town Sunday near Galkaayo. ---- Pun

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Respect versus popularityit is the old conflict between being professional and being personal. We want to do a good job, but we want to be friends with everyone, too. The truth is, you can't always be liked if you do your job properly. And the desir

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Beginners. We have a mouse in our garage. There might be more than one. The one I have seen is small, grey, and causes a lot of mess. As much as I love animals, I'm afraid we have to put down a mousetrap. My husband bought a box of traps a long time

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By Alisha Ryu Baidoa, Somalia 05 July 2006 When Islamic militias in Somalia seized the capital Mogadishu last month, many Somalis welcomed the Islamist's victory as the first step to possibly ending nearly 16 years of lawlessness. But as the leaders

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(150) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(七月)

SAN JOSE, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- Colombian cyclist Oscar Sanchez took the lead Sunday in the 48th edition of the Costa Rica Tour, clocking the fastest time in the seventh leg of the 12-stage competition. Sunday's race featured a grueling 18-kilometer up

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

MADRID, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- FC Barcelona and Valencia drew the first leg of their Copa del Rey semifinal 1-1 in Valencia's Mestalla Stadium on Wednesday. Valencia opened the scoring through Jonas Goncalves, only for Carles Puyol to equalize for Barca

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Break a leg: 祝好运! 到音像店淘碟,无意中瞄到一张2005年讽刺悬疑片Break a leg 一名演员为了闯荡好莱坞,不惜用尽一切手段击败竞争对手。只是,他的演艺生涯未必就此一路坦途 影片的讽刺意

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在shake a leg这个习惯用语里,shake显然是个动词,照字面意思看shake a leg就是晃动一条腿。我们看下面的例子来捉摸习惯用语shake a leg是什么意思吧。这是大学生在叫醒早上贪睡不起的室友Bob。注

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(100) / 评论(0) 分类 美国俚语

By Rachel Smalley London 04 October 2009 The foot of a person suffering from elephantiasis More than 120 million people worldwide are infected with elephantiasis, and one billion more are at risk of contracting the debilitating and disfiguring ailme

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学英语单词
accrued VAT payable
adjustable range of die shut height
Ainsliaea fragrans
Allium altaicum
andre
appcs
avowers
baryta white
be quick to do
bridging table
buffet dinner
Campos del Puerto
centre line of the frog
channeler, channeller
chaplet area
charge state
chief officer of a corporation or business
coverage model
crownover
d.o.s.
diagnostic significance of five colors
Down in the Valley
draw bucket
DRMS
drunken trees
electromagnetic accelerator efficiency
electrostatography
elephantfish
enneract
enshawl
essential calculus
falsa demonstration non nocet .
fictionalizing
Front-Mu point of the kidney
gangles
gastric coronary plexus
general freight agent
go fly a one's kite
homalopisthocranius
homopolar molecule
hydromotor
income from real estate
inulosucrase
iron(iii) tantalate
Johnson-Trotter
jovian
junction marks
kaneelstein (grossularite)
kencoes
key joint
keyhole-type notch
kral
land degradation
lecc
Ligularia latihastata
locked-up stress
lymphomatous
Magunga
margin of profit
materials specification manual
mean daily flow
measurement chain
Melanchthon
micronucleocyte
minimizes
modulating grid
motor exciting current
mussitation
niggli molecular norm
no-contact pickup
non-linear effect
nongeography
on-line digital output
out-of-city park
outlying block
parallelism of disease
perichordal sheath
piliferum
pressure oil pump
priest's hole
provincial capitals
sensory apraxia
setka
shipmasters
shoulder gap
shunt peaking coil
solar navigation
solvatochromy
spacecraft
Subgallate(Bismuth)
supprice
take a side with
thurfte
time delay difference
traffic control center
unit clamp bolt
vinacetin
walking around money
water-soluble base
waterfowler
welding symbols
witherites