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A: This parking meter is really confusing. Can you help me figure it out? B: It's just like the old one, but with new stuff added. A: Yeah, OK. B: The first step is deciding on debit or credit card payment, so which one is it? A: I have coins. B: Per

大学生活英语-Using a Parking Meter(2)

A: Whoa, I never saw a meter like this before; how do you use it? B: It's simple, once you do it a few times. Do you know how the old one worked? A: I never used a parking meter before. B: So we start out by deciding whether you will use cash or a cr

大学生活英语-Using a Parking Meter(1)

A: Excuse me, could you help me figure out how to use this new parking meter? B: Sure, it was confusing for me also. Have you ever used a regular meter? A: Yes, I understood the old one. B: Well, on this one you can use coins or a debit or credit car

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Ground - Connecting the Earth to electrical equipment with a conductor. This is done so current overloads (perhaps due to a lightning strike) can be safely diverted to the Earth. Ground Fault Circuit

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A meteorite bursting through the atmosphere over Russia injuring hundreds of folks on the ground. It happened overnight in the fringe of Siberia, sending shock to residents into a state of panic. ABC's Current Rania filed this report just moments ago

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shows it really quite well. In order to bring back a piece of this mystery, his team of divers will be risking their lives. Diving problems, you got currents, tides, waves. We havent been here before. We haven't been this deep, though. One of those c

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Global warming is a real problem, but would you believe that we are actually living in an ice age right now? Yael and Don discuss it. Y: Brrr! Thanks for lunch Don, but it's a little cold to be walking back to the office. D: Well, it is winter. Y: Ac

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1) 经常性或习惯性的动作，常与表示频腮度的时间状语连用。 时间状语： every…, sometimes, at…, on Sunday I leave home for school at 7 every morning. 2) 客观真理，客观

一般现在时的用法

) 经常性或习惯性的动作，常与表示频腮度的时间状语连用。 时间状语： every, sometimes, at, on Sunday I leave home for school at 7 every morning. 2) 客观真理，客观存在，科学事实。 The earth moves around the sun. Shanghai lies in the east of China. 3) 表

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Sometimes it feels like I'm watching from the outside Sometimes it feels like I'm breathing but am I alive I won't keep searching for answers that aren't here to find All I know is I'm not home yet This is not where I belong Take this world and give