A well intentioned person who repeatedly agrees to do some type of charity work, but ultimately does not follow through with the commitment, often with an excuse at the last moment.
> Mary said she would help with this year's church picnic, but she's such a voluntease, so I'm not holding my breath.

本曲大意 歌者藉由欢唱与跳舞来歌颂爱情。他希望能跟自己的情人远离这个纷扰喧嚣的世界,翱翔在自由爱情的天空。爱情的力量就是他们的羽翼,他们要一道飞向彩虹。 英文歌词 Volare, oh, oh. Cantare, oh, oh, oh, oh. Lets fly way up to the clouds, away from the ma

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Jim Malone The Catholic Church inserted itself into the U.S. presidential race Friday. A top Vatican cardinal said in Rome that Catholic politicians who support abortion rights should be denied commun

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Every Romeo has a Juliet Wishful thinkers have their stars Hopeless romantics each have a love song Played on their guitars But you You're everything This foolish heart could ever define Every wish, Every dream, Every prayer come true I feel so bless

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50个美国本土词汇

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2-furoic acid butyl ester
alat tirasi
areametric
babian
Baillarger's band
bess
bidry
billable
biological marker
blind staggers
bonded system
brush-like
Carex globularis
cloth filter
colletids
compound filling resin
computer aided language learning
consimilarity
cottey
ctenoid structure
culture-dish
cybernauts
damage fault
datiscin
disc-grinder
eiph
electrohysterograph
electrometer measurement
endogenous variate
Feldhausen
forest fire size class
fracture fluid coefficient
fragrant orchid
fuel injection pump cam box
Gbégoudo
genus sorbuss
glandulae vestibulares minores
hand-pull
hasutorium
helen mirren
Heleroclin
History of Woman Suffrage
homodimerization
hyperthymization
hyrax
immeritous
implication gate
internal visual inspection
internodes
Keller, Helen(Adams)
kinetogene
knash
Laxey Head
lil old
maltout
marginal convolution
merit increase
metallic mineral products
monitoringrecorder
motor drive type
napleton
napthopyrine
needle roller with ball end
nuclear magnetic resonance tomography
Ohata
once bitten
pepe bend with female thread
play-room
PNC
polaroid
pork floss
presumptive error
ptilolite
pulse amplitude selector
risk appetite
rock-petre
saddam husseins
Saharan Atlas
separate excitaiton
sidereal hour angle
Sirhan Sirhan
skeezicks
sorta
sphaerolite
sphere discharge tube
steam heating system with dry return
takes precedence over
teratesla
tidal quay
total sampling method
transistorise
Tugnug Pt.
underlying bed
unforgeability
unintromitted
utilization coefficient of strokes
vertical fold
VGB
video data organization
wearisomeness
wonderstruck, wonder-strucken
wretchness