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The most popular toys this holiday season, as you know, if you're a parent, are zhu zhu pets. They're little robot hamsters that move around or something and there're people going crazy for them. Zhu zhu pets are manufactured in China, and over the w

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Is His Name Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas, Kris Kringle or Pelznickel? Who Cares, So Long As He Brings Gifts! Now, the VOA Special English program Words and Their Stories. Santa Claus is someone who will remain in the hearts of children forever. He is

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dime是值十美分的硬币。 dime的价值虽然是nickel的两倍， 但是dime也只是一枚很小的硬币，而且dime跟 nickel相比是既小又薄，原因是过去曾经用比镍贵重得多的银子来铸造dime。 Nickel-and-dime既可以

CNN 2012-02-21

President Obama`s administration says it`s more concerned with what`s in coins than who`s on them. The penny in your pocket might look like copper, but copper actually makes up less than 3 percent of a one-cent coin. And the main metal in nickels ain

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一个客户在电话线上和我就一笔生意讨价还价，硬要在我的报价上要砍掉一角钱，当时我和他据理力争，他说：I'm not trying to nickel and dime you. 我当时就冲口回答：I don't need your nickel and dime.（我

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Copper can be rolled or hammered out into thin sheets, and so we say that it is malleable. It can also be easily drawn out into wire, and for this reason we call it ductile. Sheet copper is much used for covering the bottoms of ships, and for making

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The Streaming down the Yangtze team has arrived in the city of Tongling, Anhui Province. Owing to its copper deposits, it was an important center in ancient China for bronze production. The scale of the copper industry has gradually increased and it

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Theisotopiccompositionof (65)leadoftenvariesfromonesourceof commoncopperoretoanother,with variationsexceedingthemeasurement error;andpreliminarystudiesindicate virtuallyuniformistopiccomposition (70)of

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When the sheets are very thin, they are called lead-foil. A great deal of lead-foil is used in China, to line the chests in which tea is sent to Europe. 特别薄的薄片儿就叫做铅箔, 中国就是用大量的铅箔来垫在茶叶箱里, 做成铅

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Lesson 37 All About A Penny 第37课 关于便士 When I was a little boy, pennies, and halfpennies, and farthings were made of pure copper. But copper is too soft a metal to stand the rubbing which coins get. So these old pennies soon became so smoo

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Nickel or Dime? 5分钱还是10分钱？ Little Johnny used to hang out at the local corner store. The owner didn't know what Johnny's problem was, but the older boys would constantly tease him. 小约翰尼过去常在街角的商店附近闲逛。店