音标:['kreɪv(ə)n] ;
a. 畏缩的;怯懦的
n. 懦夫
n. (Craven)人名;(意)克拉文;(英)克雷文
imp. & p. p. of Craven

Brad was angry. He was angry at the apartment building manager. The apartment building manager had kicked him out. If you cant pay the rent, the manager said, I have to kick you out. But I always pay the rent on time, Brad said. Thats nice, but youre

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: The Olympic flame may be out in Vancouver, but we're just getting fired up over terms related to fire. RS: We lit on the idea after our friend and fellow master of words Grant Bar

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Today I have a special show for you because it's September 24: National Punctuation Day, a holiday created by an educator named Jeff Rubin. To celebrate the day I had a punctuation contest and today's show highlights two of the winners. Other winners

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By Barbara Schoetzau New York, NY 15 March 2006 watch Colors Restaurant report In a city like New York, which has over 15,000 restaurants, it is tough to attract attention. But the new restaurant Colo

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By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 03 July 2007 Welfare organizations say there has been a dramatic increase in the number of abandoned babies in South Africa in the past year. VOA's Delia Robertson reports from our bureau in Johannesburg. HIV-positive

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 14 April 2006 Goz-Amer camp, one of 12 UNHRC-run camps in eastern Chad The United Nations refugee agency says it is alarmed over the possible impact of the violence in Chad on h

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 16 February 2007 The U.N. refugee agency has raised to 107 the number of people who died trying to reach Yemen earlier this week. Their bodies have been found along a remote stretch of the Yemen coastline. Several people are s

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 23 May 2006 An unprecedented search carried out by the FBI in the office of a member of Congress continues to stir controversy. Majority Republican leaders in the House of

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 22 February 2006 Israel is tightening the financial squeeze on the Islamic militant group Hamas, which won Palestinian parliamentary elections last month. Hamas has struck a

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The International Organization for Migration says it believes more than 300 African migrants, possibly as many as 500, drowned after their boats sank off the coast of Libya. Libyan officials say 21 people are confirmed dead and about 20 others have

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The commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, General David Petraeus, told a congressional committee Wednesday that success in Afghanistan would require a sustained, substantial commitment. But some lawmakers expressed skepticism over how pr

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Jake: OK, so tell me about Australia. Do you have any similar folk heroes there? Shirley: Well Jake, in Australia, one of our most famous - a kind of black folk hero, is Ned Kelly from the Kelly gang and he was a real life person who in the-I dont kn

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By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 10 March 2006 For the first time in Italy a town in Tuscany wants a referendum to be held on whether or not a large mosque should be built. The committee which promoted the

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By Paula Wolfson White House 06 June 2006 President Bush says he is keeping a close watch on developments in Somalia, where Islamic fighters are on the move after taking control of the capital city, M

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By Scott Stearns Rostock, Germany 13 July 2006 President Bush says he is concerned that the Israeli bombing of Beirut's airport could weaken the Lebanese government. Mr. Bush supports Israel's right to defend itself, and is calling on Syrian Preside

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By Jane Chambers Santiago 12 December 2006 Family and friends of former Chilean military leader Augusto Pinochet have paid tribute to the late general at a funeral in Santiago. Pinochet died Sunday afternoon after suffering a heart attack. From Sant

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CANBERRA, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Bushranger Ned Kelly's headless body has finally been identified in Australia, more than 130 years after his execution in the Old Melbourne Gaol, Victoria's Attorney- General Robert Clark announced on Thursday. Clark sai

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今天我们要学的词是seasoned。 Seasoned, 老练的。A seasoned traveler, 一位经验丰富的旅行家。 The candidate surrounded himself with seasoned advisers, 这位候选人周围都是经验丰富的顾问。 Former Senator George Mit

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LESSON 32 FRISK AND NED 第三十二课 Frisk和Ned NED has been at play till he is quite worn out. Ned直到精疲力尽还一直在玩。 He sits down on the step at the door, and soon goes to sleep. His dog Frisk comes and sits by him. 他坐在门边

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accountable additivity
active locking
aggregate type
airborne transmitter
al-sauds
alfredia
American arrowroot
anemo electric generator
augustus welby northmore pugins
automatic accumulator regulator
back-extrapolate
behavioral chain
black manganese
break off the action
cane level(l)ing machine
cardinal altitude
chief justiciar
cliche radiographique
cold storage warehouse
control rod drive stubtube
Dauphiné, Alpes du
Dempo, Gunung
diminish the interest on money
dipole loudspeaker
disqualifiers
duty-cycle
effective sensitivity
energy energy release
fault trees analysis
Fimbristylis hainanensis
fixed-displacement motor
floor selector
fluid control layer
free-vortex-type
fusible circuit-breaker
Gattermann reaction
graceful degration
gun-pump method
herpes-zoster
hieratically
homeward bound pennant
horton-magath-brown(disease)
inassuageable
International Telecommunications Satellite Organization
interrupting duty
inverter output frequency control
Jenners
jewellery store
keeps at
left lumbar turnks
Lenzen an der Elbe
lesser galangals
long run break even conditions
made someone tick
Marijuna
matchflare
mature age student
methysticum
mid-position contact
Nandpur
Ninth Five-Year Plan
Ornäs
other topics in statistics
overcurrent
Oxytropis stracheyana
pacifying
pennant
philanthropism
prereproductive
pressure-type liquidometer
pukka sahib
railroad gauge
reducing rolls
reflex inhibition
roll profile
running inventory
Sagsay Gol
savings and investment theory
see in the New Year
Serge Koussevitzky
shrublike
side to side adjustment
spectral radiant intensity
squeeze packer
stichwort
surface-skimming
swept frequency reflectometer
sympathetic cell
technodazzle
thalibrunimine
thermomagnetic tempering
thin-wall case
top circle trimming
treacle wormseed
ungooglable
vajda
value form
ventnor
visual jokes
xylorutinosides
Yogacara