tosheroon (plural tosheroons)
(Britain, archaic slang) A half-crown coin; its value
(Britain, obsolete slang) A crown coin; its value

(Tennis ball sounds) Y: Hi 大家好。我是杨晨。 P: 我是Patrick. P: Today, Yang Chen and I are playing a game of tennis. Y: Patrick It's your serve! P: OK, just a minute. To serve S-E-R-V-E is to put the tennis ball in play by throwing it up

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014 bedroom Words Bed bedside table alarm clock wardrobe pillow duvet blanket sheet chest of drawers bedside lamp mirror dressing table pyjamas nightdress mattress Phrases Go to bed Get up Set the alarm clock Go to sleep Read in bed Make your bed Be

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In April of 2005, Jacques Chirac and the German Chancellor at the time, Gerhard Schrder, announced plans to spend over a billion euros on a joint French-German search engine to compete with the American company Google. The project would be called Qu

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Jerome Kern, 1885-1945: The Father of American Musical Theater Singers still perform Kern's songs today. VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about and play music by

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Soldiers go to war. They fight the enemy. That is their job. Firemen go to fires. They rescue people in burning buildings. That is their job. Policemen go after dangerous criminals. They arrest dangerous criminals. That is their job. Phil was driving

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彼特范考萨在TEDGlobal舞台上演示了Rezero,一个能在球上保持平衡并跳舞的机器人。一群工程专业的学生设计了它,这是第一个能快速且优雅地移动甚至跳舞的球形机器人。

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今天我们要学的词是zero in on。 Zero in on, 是集中火力,集中注意力的意思。 U.S. Congress and the White House is zeroing in on plans to rescue U.S. automakers, 美国白宫和国会集中精力,协商拯救美国汽车制造厂

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One of Cameroon's best known and most controversial musicians, Lapiro de Mbanga, is spending this year's fifth annual International Music Freedom Day at a Douala courthouse not far from his jail cell. Lapiro is citing wrongful imprisonment for a song

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PEOPLE IN AMERICA - How Johnny Appleseed Grew Into a Folk Hero FAITH LAPIDUS: Im Faith Lapidus. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we tell about a man known as Johnny Appleseed. Many people c

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By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 01 May 2007 Starting Tuesday, Cameroon will offer free anti-retroviral drug treatment to all eligible HIV-positive people in the country. The program, funded by the government and various external groups, aims to reach as many

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By Joe Bavier Abidjan 24 March 2006 At least 130 passengers are still missing, two days after the wreck of a Nigerian vessel off the coast of Cameroon. The wreck is one of a series of sea accidents to

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SurvivalGuidesTurnNerdsintoActionHero A few years ago, David Borgenicht, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a book agent. Then one day, he read an article that gave him an idea for his own book. He and a friend - magazine writer Joshua Piven - produc

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英文歌词: workin' like a dog for the boss man (whoa) workin' for the company (whoa-yeah) bettin' on the dice I'm tossin' (whoa) I'm gonna have a fantasy (whoa-yeah) where am I gonna look? they tell me that love is blind I really need a girl like an

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BERLIN, July 10 (Xinhua) -- Dutch international midfielder Eljero Elia transferred from Juventus to German side Werder Bremen, the club said in an official statement on Tuesday. After long back and forth, Bundesliga side Bremen confirmed the signing

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SINGAPORE, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- Italy's 19-year-old Matteo Manassero holed a 12-foot putt for eagle on the third play-off hole to win the Singapore Open on Sunday, beating South African player Louis Oosthuizen. It also makes Manassero the first teenag

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By Steve Herman New Delhi 05 February 2007 India's defense minister says his country is prepared to collaborate with other nations to build combat aircraft, tactical missiles and other military equipment. The announcement comes as an unprecedented r

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学英语单词
'dromes
allcock
allowable distance between stations
back load
Baldylocks
beacher
bipolar logic
boosters with detonator
brown ashes
Cape Verde escudo
cembra nut tree
ceratozamias
Chamber of Shipping Australian Grain CharterSA
cheilosia rakurakuensis
christchurches
close critical control
common solder
compound contraction
container size
craighalls
craphead
crouania minutissima
decompression lever
deploringly
desert olive
devil nettles
double royal
drop guide
dynamic balancing test of fan
EITB
equal-weighted market index
eyeglassess
fluctuability
focal lines
fog duration
fresh whole milk
fringe wages
genus Lavatera
genus schinuss
gurjan
hard nickel
intercellular secretory canaliculi
iodineflask
job reporting
knitting
LDA localizer
lethally
load booster
locus standi
long-stem nozzle
louderbackite
low - hanging fruit
low level contact
mai
Marble Canyon
mazdoor
measuring buoy
Merritt I. National Wildlife Refuge
miguels
mobile offshore drilling unit safety certificate
motoricity
Neslia paniculata
once-taboo
overtiredness
pathogeny bacteriology
phase comparison carrier differential system
Picassent
pivot plough
plug-in valve
polary
pondapple
pseudophilosophy
put one's ideas into shape
rate-grown type transistor
records room
renew acquaintances
resommon
roughing scale breaker
row upon row
sensory layer
serengetis
sesame seeds
side to side adjustment
single space fighter
sinicaepermania taiwanella
snow-bank
sound spark
spherical radius
squilgees
steel pipe clamp
structural phase transition
sybilles
synthetic lethality
taynton
The usher showed us to our seats
time-slot
touch one's hat to
Toumodi-Sakasso
umbrella frame
within one's power
woodcuts
ytterbium carbonate