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The 13th Beijing Automotive Exhibition, or Auto China 2014, will open Monday at the China International Exhibition Center. More than one thousand automobiles will be exhibited including 118 foreign cars that will be making their debut. More than 2,00

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A mother is an extraordinary thing. Take the woman whose toddler was caught on CCTV at Goodge Street Tube station being sucked onto the live tracks by a freak gust of wind.Without a moments hesitation, she flings herself off the platform and hoiks th

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SANTIAGO, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Qatari auto racer Prince Nasser Al Attiyah won Day 6 of the legendary Dakar Rally Thursday, behind the wheel of a Buggy. Al Attiyah won the sixth stage of the rugged off-road race, between the Chilean cities of Arica and

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今天要学的习惯用语是：buggy whip。 buggy是小型的轻便马车。这种马车的挡泥板上有插口，用来插上鞭子。这就是当年的buggy whip。 buggy whip属于悠久的过去年代，人们不用buggy whip已经有好多好

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Richard and I sat on my porch, looking out over the dunes to the Gulf. The smoke from his cigar drifted mellowly in the air, keeping the mosquitoes at a safe distance. The water was a cool aqua, the sky a deeper, truer blue. It was a pleasant combina

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As I was walking back to my house from the mail box the other day, I looked at our entryway and realised that it looked like a junk yard. There were about four, old, plastic vehicles that our children don't use anymore, just sitting on the driveway l

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我们上次讲了几个包括horse这个词的习惯用语。尽管如今马匹的重要性已经大大不如十九世纪的年代，但是马匹在历史长途上的足迹却至今还印证在语言里，所以由horse组成的习惯用语可真不少

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