torfer (comparative more torfer, superlative most torfer)
(dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Difficulty, trouble.

By Paula Wolfson Bogota 12 March 2007 President Bush says the Iraq regional conference held Saturday in Baghdad was positive, but he is waiting to see if participants turn their words into action. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports the president spoke in Bo

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丹尼尔看医生时,医生说他患了流感,要打针。小孩好像都很怕打针,我们的丹尼尔呢,他也怕吗?往下看就知道了。 Listen Read Learn Doctor 3: What seems to be the problem, kid? Daniel: I've got a sore throat, a runny nose and a headache. Doctor 3: AhHow long

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Oscar Pistorius is the South African Paralympic runner famous for trying to compete at the Olympics. He is known as Blade Runner because of the artificial limbs he uses to sprint. He is also dubbed the fastest man on no legs. Pistorius is the double

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Jennifer Lopez, a.k.a. J.Lo, is a multi-talented and influential superstar. She is an actress, singer-songwriter, record producer, and dancer. She is also a very smart businesswoman and has used her fame to launch her own fashion line and perfumes. S

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT – December 23, 2002: Heifer International By Jill Moss This is the VOA Special English Development Report. One of the biggest problems in developing countries is hunger. An organi

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Elizabeth Lee 20 April 2010 Demographers say the ethnic makeup of the United States is evolving. They expect to see more Hispanics in the 2010 census. And they say the idea of a majority group in the U.S. will disappear within the next few decades. I

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By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 04 January 2006 Israel's Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, has suffered what his doctors call a

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By Nico Colombant Dakar 22 February 2007 Union leaders in Guinea are pursuing a strike that began in early January, demanding that long-time President Lansane Conte name a consensus prime minister. Meanwhile, the government is maintaining a state of

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Doctors Say Millions Worldwide Suffer From Diabetes 世卫组织警告糖尿病将成全球流行病 The World Health Organization estimates that 346 million people globally suffer from diabetes. Most of them live in low- and middle-income countries.

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PRETORIA, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- The second day of paralympian Oscar Pistorius' bail hearing ended on Wednesday without a court ruling on his application. Magistrate Desmond Nair ruled that Pistorius would remain in custody again at the Brooklyn police

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PRETORIA, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Pretoria Magistrate Court on Tuesday postponed Paralympian Oscar Pistorius' bail hearing to Wednesday. Magistrate Desmond Nair ruled that the bail hearing be heard under Schedule 6 Offence of the Criminal Procedure A

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Millions of Americans Suffer From Hair Loss This is Science in the News, in VOA Special English. Im Shirley Griffith. And Im June Simms. Today we talk about hair. We will tell what hair is, how it grows, and some of the main reasons people lose it. H

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Undocumented Syrian Refugees Suffer Deprivation UmSteif Aysa al Fadil, a Syrian mother of eight, gathers khubays, a leafy green vegetable, on the scrap of land she now inhabits outside Kilis in southern Turkey. This plant, which she will boil and fee

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Some Iraqis Profit from Economic Progress; Most Suffer Baghdad's Stock Exchange opened one year after the fall of Saddam Hussein as a private non-profit organization - replacing the government-owned Iraq Stock Exchange. Director Taha Ahmed al-Rubaye

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On the eighth tee, Dannys cell phone rang just as Roy was getting ready to hit the ball. Roy hit another bad shot. He glared at Danny. Danny looked at him again. Im a doctor, Roy. Im on call for emergencies. What if your great granddaughter was in a

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If he says one more thing to me, Im going to hit him, Roy thought. Roy was thinking about Danny, a fellow golfer he had just met today. Danny was a successful orthopedist, 60 years old and quite overweight. Roy was a retired Army officer, 80 and wiry

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By Melinda Smith Washington, DC 17 April 2006 watch Sinus Surgery report Many people who live in climates where there is a change of seasons often experience sinus problems. Sinus pain and headaches c

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 11 April 2007 The International Committee of the Red Cross says the suffering of civilians in Iraq is worsening. In a new report called Civilians Without Protection: The Ever-Worsening Crisis in Iraq , the Red Cross focusses on

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 06 December 2006 House and Senate lawmakers are working to clear the way for final congressional approval of legislation required to implement the U.S. - India Civil Nuclear Cooperation deal. VOA's Dan Robinson reports f

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GQ magazine is marking the 10th anniversary with its annual Man of the Year issue. And this year, there are three separate covers, one featuring actor Vince Vaughn, another with popular recording arti

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学英语单词
aahsa
aci-
all-weather gauging device
alternate visit id
angina uratica
aperture-grill picture tube
astringe yin
automatic programming of machine tools (autopromt)
be jazzed up
beam on
beltrami
billed principal
bromcresol green
butt-weld joint
buyline
city forestry
clutch sequence
communication for command
computer aided testing
cushioning underframe
Cyber Storm
daldinia caldariorum
detergent drain tank
discount breakeven point
dislocation of lacrimal gland
double curvature airfoil
ego-defensive theory
El Arba
electron shake-off
evaluation of learning
exchanging scattering
farm stall
finned
flour duster
fluka
forward series position
full-tone copy
Fumado
funk-metals
gauging method
Gibbs, James
glazed board
gynecological oncology
Halle's points
heinemen
heterobaric
hoelter
hold spring
hurly-burlies
interphase transformet
Kajaani
LATP
Lauris
lawn parties
light weight tractor
loxoconcha neotaiwanica
magnetotails
manholes
maryanne
merzon
Meteorological and Oceanographic Forecast Center
microabrasion
nominal fineness
non-significant interaction
non-virtual interfaces
oil of Indian verbena
optical cooling
over-intreat
parenchymatous tumor
paris opera ballet
pearl-white
PGER
Pike County
PM maraging steel
process building
quinidexes
Quita Sueňo Bk.
reaneys
right and wrong test
road line marker
Robe R.
sealing of vessel
seisins
semi-hard cheese
Shashani R.
solar distillation
square ... with
stacked waveguides
State Compensation of Japan
statement label data
stop-overs
text processing system
the fullness of time
the message
trench shoring system
unit impulse response
us dine
Valdagno
vlasman
voltage-gated
youks