(city-state 的复数) n. 城邦
plural of city-state
n a state consisting of a sovereign city

VOICE ONE: Emperor Norton Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith. This week on our program, we answer a question from a listener in Brazil. Tino Therezo in Sao Paulo wants to know about Joshua Norton. Who is that? Oh,

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学英语单词
addressing environment
administer the law
agamandroecism
akaline
allyl malonic acid
American Depositary Share
Ampleforth College
ancipitous
anti hyperon
areal coordinate
basic feight
Bierbaum scratch hardness
bituminous solution
body assembly
bonapartes
bulk storage
cable jacket
can coding machine
castellations
ch'?ng wu
Cisco Systems
code comparison
concave joint
Corydalis praecipitorum
court of the coroner
custardy
debate
debilitant
desoxycorticosterone triphenylacetate
divulgings
docksills
draw-down ratio
ducks and geese
engine mans indicator
extended video graphics adapter
eyefold
feldspathic tawite
fickled
filter appurtenance
Fontan procedure
frisco
geotectology
girder top plate
Glimmings
granular cell epulis of infancy
hologrammatically
Houdry proacee
idiopathic paroxysmal myoglobinuria
iestyn
in Easy easy street
jowlopped
lassie
LPI (lines per inch)
manit
mega-events
mercative
metanym
methyl hydrazone
microdotted
molecular activity
mouth breeding
nepaulite
non-random mixture
Nothing venture and nothing have.
OSIP (Operational Safety Indicator Programme)
out-threaten
permissive control device
phytocoenostics
pitch lap
polydeoxy-thymidine-ribonucleotide
pot-clay
preflush
pseudostratified columnar ciliated epithelium
put a price on sth
quasi steady operation
quasi-modern
r (roentgen)
RDIMM
requesting terminal
screwing chuck
seawright
self-trimming ship
Seyyed Ebrāhīm
sharp curve
silvestrite (siderazot)
sora
still-hunters
streptodermatitis
suction mat unit
tarentaise
texted
trigonometric equation
triple-coincidence
tube-in-sheet heater
universaller
uzzard
vaginal laceration
vesicourethral angle
virtual display
wimpie
worthens
zebra column