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vt. (股票等)运作差于(一般市场价格)
vi. 表现不佳;工作不如预期(或同行)

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a-tumble
acrosses
acyl cyanide
al musaymir (musaymir)
alarm bells
amplitude of pitch
arm for fork release
aston dark space
baby buster
Bacillus caviae fortuitus
barperson
be a victory for common sense
billing
bleed steam pipe
by check
carion
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community rate
compact packet ring
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compressor exhauster unit
coolsville
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cream roux
crossprotection
current limitation
differency
distillation and drying zone
drug therapeutics
ease nature
ectophasia sinensis
effect of seaboard
electroenterograph
ellsworth kelly
emergency launch
Evans, Maurice
faheyite
fish-bellied
franc zone
genealogises
goes in one ear and out the other
ground emitter circuit
gybytte
hallucinations
image mixing
integral housing
intercondylar fossa
internal diameter
international system of units(si)
interphase temperature
jalabiyas
keelhaled
Kenyon,John Samuel
left colic artery
Lewis and Clark Lake
lobuli simplex cerebelli
local Mach number
maize rice
mh.
modale
musculus opponens digiti quinti pedis
nervi canalis pterygoidei
niijima
nuclear mine
off your rocker
open one's shoulders
Pakistanian
patwins
phonesia
policy communication
possess oneself
potatochip
programmed symbol
psychrolutes inermis
radiomicrometer
reserve for employees retirement allowance
rhacomitrium javanicum doz.et molk
rosannes
rosegarden
rotor disk
rubroviolaceus
Russian red
samenly
sebaceous nevus
servocontrol for linear motion
shocked flow
signaling gateway
spark intensifier
standard Weston cell
Surazepam
surface resistance of silver film
target bow
tentmaker
the depth
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towing launch
toy spaniels
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up-skip
verlaines
warned off
you rang