音标:[t'rɪbju:ts] ;
n. (尤指旧时一国向他国交纳的)贡品( tribute的名词复数 ); (良好效果或影响的)体现; (尤指对死者的)致敬; 称赞
n something given or done as an expression of esteem
n payment by one nation for protection by another
n payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence

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Section A Short Conversation [00:02.95]1. M: The cake you gave me was delicious. [00:06.43]Where did you buy it? [00:07.92]W: It's my own creation. [00:09.98]It's something like my mother's chocolate cake. [00:12.64]Q: Who made the cake? [00:14.89]2.

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Chapter 3 The moment the anthem ends, we are taken into custody. I dont mean were handcuffed or anything, but a group of Peacekeepers marches us through the front door of the Justice Building. Maybe tributes have tried to escape in the past. Ive neve

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My mother, I say. Its beautiful. Classic really. And in almost perfect balance with your profile. She has very clever fingers, he says. I had expected someone flamboyant, someone older trying desperately to look young, someone who viewed me as a piec

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I sit on the bed, hating Haymitch, hating Peeta, hating myself for mentioning that day long ago in the rain. Its such a joke! Peeta and I going along pretending to be friends! Talking up each others strengths, insisting the other take credit for thei

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Princes William and Harry have fun at the concert 1st July, 2007 would have been the 46th birthday of Diana, Princess of Wales. 2007 also sees the 10th anniversary of her untimely death in a car accident. Her two sons Prince William and Prince Harry

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By Katherine Cole Washington 06 August 2007 It's been said that the mark of a great artist is the apparent ease with which they perform their craft. In country music, few have ever made it look easier than the Buck Owens and his band, The Buckaroos.

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 26 January 2007 The World Food Program (WFP) says it will provide a seven-day ration of food to 125 people who were wounded during the recent anti-government protests in Guinea, because the paralyzing strike is preventing rela

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By the 11th century, the Vikings who had settled in Ireland, the Hiberno-Norse, had been here for over a century and a half. Theyd intermarried, become Christian and formed local alliances. Theyd founded thriving port cities like Waterford, Wexford,

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As I refill my pack I have an awful thought. The lake. The one I saw while I was waiting for the gong to sound. What if that's the only water source in the arena? That way they'll guarantee drawing us in to fight. The lake is a full day's journey fro

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2016: Memories, Tributes and Historic moments FRI 30 DEC 2016 A tribute to Johan Cruyff and Carlos Alberto who both died in 2016.

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学英语单词
a hell of a
actecs
Al Qādisīyah, Liwā'
all day
alpha-glucans
amalgam catcher
American Academy of Forensic Sciences
atlantic bonitoes
built-up rim
by bidder
cannale
car tyre deflated
cerapachys longitarsus
Chikula
christen
coeder
colanguages
common louse
cry(o)-
cryptococcal meningitis
dark ray
diagonal voltage bridge
dihydrouracil
do as one wishes
electrical clock receptacle
entry of goods outward
even parity
fasciculi mamillotendinei (mm. dorsi)
fire -fighting equipment
fixed steady
geohydrologic unit
giler
health-policy
hiam
HiNIL
holarrhessimine
homoaconitase
intermediate cooling circuit
iron overloads
jennerize
kaubs
Knights of Labor
Lambertian distribution
laudabilities
lesser pelvis
letterpaper
link capacity
liquor kalii arsenitis
lower one's sail
lunar module pilot (lmp)
margin after exercise
marking of drill pipe
meliboeus shimomurai
microslide
mobile-hearth furnace
Mosgovoyia
mutual trust
mwethya
naphthous
national opera
network-ready
nndp
noctilucin
non-metallic whisker
obradovich
off-line euqipment
op-amp
phasm
pleinair
plumb derrick truck
presheaf
pretas
reddish brown soil
relative deformation gradient
residualisms
rotato-
rough-axed brick
Sangmélima
sanguinary
scorchio
simply connected
somaticizes
sound cage
squibbers
Stink-Weed
tall men
tectonic history
theory of connection
to make a fast buck
to the best of
trunk roads
two way sulky plow
typhuss
unfree variation
unwarrantability
Ust'-Borzya
visible oil flow gauge
water-treatments
wharel
wig trees
wilkins micawbers