音标:[kә'tɔptrәmænsi] ;
n. 镜子(或水晶球)占卜( 古代的一种算命方法)
n. A species of divination, which was performed by
letting down a mirror into water, for a sick person to look at his face
in it. If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill
omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable.

My 1) captors continue to 2) taunt me with bizarre little 3) dangling objects. They dine 4) lavishly on fresh meat, while I am forced to eat dry cereal. The only thing that keeps me going is the hope

发表于:2018-11-28 / 阅读(238) / 评论(0) 分类 疯狂英语2002年

Jan 31,2003 Students and researchers can 1) stroll through the Roman Forum for the first time in 1,500 years, thanks to computer technology. Historians and architects have created a virtual tour of an

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今天要学的一个词组是:opt for。 Opt for就是选择。比如,美国国务卿赖斯在紧张处理中东事务后: ...opted ...for a piano recital featuring classical pieces for her performance..., 意思是她选择举行钢琴独奏会

发表于:2018-12-04 / 阅读(155) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

by Adam Freedman Todays topic: Nullification. Can states opt out of federal laws they dont like? And now, your daily dose of legalese: This article does not create an attorney-client relationship with any reader. In other words, although I am a lawye

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DAMASCUS, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- The national archeological expedition recently discovered a gigantic building built with large-size hewn stones that date back to the Roman era, Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said Wednesday. The building, the thickness

发表于:2019-01-09 / 阅读(141) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The itsy bitsy spider climed up the water spout. Down came the rain, and washed the spider out. Up came the sun, and dried up all the rain, And the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again.

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PUSSY-CAT AND QUEEN Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, Where have you been? Ive been to London To look at the Queen. Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, What did you there? I frightened a little mouse Under the chair.

发表于:2019-01-09 / 阅读(446) / 评论(0) 分类 鹅妈妈童谣

Growing Number of Runners Opt to Run in Bare Feet Michele Musacchio runs without shoes whenever she can. She started running in her bare feet nine months ago because she was looking for a way to exercise without joint pain. My hips had been hurting,

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Oum Sok began working as a cyclo driver when he was 18. He says the city has become very expensive over the years, making it much harder to earn a living. New York has its yellow cab. London has its red bus. But Phnom Penh has its cyclo - a three-whe

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For years, the U.S. funeral industry was considered recession proof but today, even the bereaved are scaling back and paying more attention to cost. Many families are forgoing traditional burials for less expensive cremations. It's a change that's ha

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: To Texas now where the shock waves from President Trump's zero tolerance border policy reach beyond the crisis around reuniting thousands of children with their parents. U.S.-born children whose parents are here in the U.S. w

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今天要学的一个词组是:opt for。 Opt for就是选择。比如,美国国务卿赖斯在紧张处理中东事务后: ...opted ...for a piano recital featuring classical pieces for her performance..., 意思是她选择举行钢琴独奏会

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Jim let his dog out to relieve himself late one night. He watched some TV, and then remembered to let the dog back in. When he opened the door, he was shocked at what he saw! In his dog's mouth was his neighbor's cat, dead! Bad dog! BAD DOG! said the

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A certain cook,rather more educated than his fellows,went from his kitchen one day to a neighbouring tavernhe was of a serious turn of mind,and on that day he celebrated the anniversary of a friend's death-leaving a cat at home,to guard his

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Dick and His Cat I Once there was a boy called Dick. He was very poor: his father and mother were dead and he had no friends to help him. One day he heard some men speaking: one man said, I shall go to London, for London is a very big city, and its s

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An old woman had a cat. The cat was very old; she could not run quickly, and she could not bite, because she was so old. One day the old cat saw a mouse; she jumped and caught the mouse. But she could not bite it; so the mouse got out of her mouth an

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There were many mice in a house. The man of the house got a cat. The cat killed many of the mice. Then the oldest mouse said, All mice must come to my hole tonight, and we will think what we can do about this cat.' All the mice came. Many mice spoke,

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Call this the freezing out of frozen food - you know, TV dinners, which were a novelty when they first showed up in national supermarkets back in the 1950s. (SOUNDBITE OF AD) UNIDENTIFIED VOICE ACTOR: It's the first and only three

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今天要学的一个词组是:opt for。 Opt for就是选择。比如,美国国务卿赖斯在紧张处理中东事务后: ...opted ...for a piano recital featuring classical pieces for her performance..., 意思是她选择举行钢琴独奏会

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学英语单词
-camphor
active guidance
adorning
anthropomorphization
antoselection
Aspalathus
be on the streets
Boeing737
bosnia-hercegovina
breezes into
Caluula, Raas
campsite
caribou
Cerorthite
checked them out
Chhattisgarh
colloid science
contingency strategies
dactylography
day-to-day issue
decends
differential type gate
digital optical projection system (dops)
double berth cabin
double-plunging fold
driving lesson
dynamic convergence amplifier
earned income on leases
economic structurology
electromagnetic integrator
en-lai
entity set model
eq'n
eternit
Export Import Bank of Japan
fat-asses
full remote control type
go on one's knees
go to do
gruffly
gunslinging
heavy mineral oil
heritable jurisdiction
Hessheim
high-utility
ingression speed
Japanesely
JPT
Kashubian
laccol
laface
left annihilator
linen compartmant
livestock breeding
logarithmic sine
lonchopterids
loop weft
lukewarmness
make up the required number
microsomal fraction
motoring
nap time
neo-druidism
niobium (nb)
Nitredipine
no-liability company
noire
non-tectonic fault
nonimpact printing
once through design
optical bleaching agent
owld
oxygen-bearing copper
posttest-only
pseudotrisomic
q-analyses
quadrilateralize
radiozone
rail-traffic
reconceptualisation
reseant
roid rage,'roid rage,'roid mania
Saint-Fulgent
satellite-mounted radiometer
scoop feed elevator
seyhulislam
share repurchase
skip-day settlement
soft-focus lens
strain-free single crystal
Syringa oblata
tandem propeller submarine
test control specimen
three-plot rotation
tiling window
tocci
turbo disc mixer
turret traverse
Valentine's splint
vitroo
white powder
winkey