(n.) a play on words which mixes two common metaphors: "[rocket science]" and "[brain surgery]"
> A line in a hilarious Chris Rock comedy act states that one shouldn't eat green meat. No kidding. It doesn't take a degree in rocket surgery to figure out something like that! ;oD

WORDS AND THEIR STORIES - Rocket Scientist By Jerry Watson Broadcast: Sunday, November 28, 2004 Hello, I'm Phil Marily with Words and Their Stories, a program in Special English. You do not need to be

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EXPLORATIONS - The X- 15 Rocketplane By Marilyn Christiano Broadcast: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 (THEME) ANNCR: Explorations -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (THEME) The X-15

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Going up quickly, like a rocket Helen: Hello, this is Real English from BBC Learning English. Im Helen. Zo: 你好吗? 我是刘佳。 Helen: Today were going to look at words and phrases that have recently become part of the English language. Zo: 地道英语

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Broadcast: Jan 18, 2003 Japan's Emperor Akihito has undergone surgery for prostate cancer. His surgeons say the 2) prognosis for a full recovery look good. Doctors who performed the procedure Saturday

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By Carol Pearson Washington 30 August 2007 Two-thirds of Americans are overweight and a new study says the rates of obesity continue to rise in the United States. Obesity is also on the rise throughout much of the world. While gastric bypass surgery

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SpaceXs huge rocket makes its first launch this week. It will leave from the same launch pad that sent men to the moon almost 50 years ago. The rocket, called the Falcon Heavy, could be launched as early as Tuesday. When it does, it will be the most

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Rocket man 火箭队队歌 - 电影《农民宇航员》结尾曲 演唱者:Elton John 《农民宇航员》,虽然是小成本电影,情节也很简单,但是很有感觉。尤其是最后的结尾曲,是对电影的一个总结,rocket m

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By Jim Randle Baghdad 13 September 2007 A U.S. general has accused Tehran of sending rockets to Shi'ite groups fighting Iraq's government and U.S. forces in Iraq. VOA's Jim Randle Reports from Baghdad. Gen. Kevin Bergner speaks to reporters in Baghda

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 11 September 2007 More than 60 Israeli soldiers were wounded, several seriously, in a Palestinian rocket attack. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, Israel is weighing a response. Israeli soldier walks nex

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By Carol Pearson Washington 11 April 2008 A surgeon in Miami used his skill in transplanting organs to save the life of a woman who had been told her cancer was inoperable. In this breakthrough surgery, doctors narrowed the scope of what is now cons

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By Carol Pearson Washington 08 January 2008 New technology makes surgery safer, shortens recovery time and leaves no scars. Both physicians and patients are pleased with the results. VOA's Carol Pearson has more. Maria Viruet recently had her gallbla

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By Carol Pearson Washington 11 October 2007 A children's hospital in Texas reports a rare condition that can threaten the lives of identical twins. The disorder has been noticed in a number of countries with advanced medical practices. A hospital spo

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By Naomi Schwarz Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 17 July 2007 Groundbreaking reconstructive surgery for women who have undergone gential mutilation is being performed in Burkina Faso. Despite efforts across Africa to stop the practice of excision, includin

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RIO DE JANEIRO, March 31 (Xinhua) -- Gremio's Gilberto Silva, former star fullback at Panathinaikos-GRE and Arsena-ENG, underwent surgery on Saturday to correct his recently suffered broken nose. Silva received a vicious elbow during his team's 4-0 w

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MOSCOW, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- A Russian Proton-M carrier rocket carrying a military spacecraft blasted off early Wednesday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the first launch since a series setbacks of Russian rocket launch in August. Colon

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LONDON, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang had undergone a surgery on a torn Achilles tendon of his right foot at the Wellington hospital of London, officials said on Thursday. Chief official of the Shanghai Sports Bureau told Xinhua that t

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BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- NASA recently unveiled its new rocket design, named Space Launch System (SLS), according to media reports. The rocket will make its first unmanned flight in 2017, and the flight with astronauts aboard won't happen unti

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MOSCOW, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Proton-M carrier rocket was launched on Friday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan with a Chinese communications satellite AsiaSat-7, according to Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos. Roscosmos' live

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Climb, climb into a rocket 我们爬进了火箭 And we set the fuse to go, go, go 我们开始起飞 Head start, cosy in the rocket 开启引擎在火箭里面真的舒服 And I need to go, to go, go, go 我现在需要起飞了 Tip top, ready for t

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Photo taken on April 28, 2016 shows the launch of the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with three small satellites -- Lomonosov, Aist-2D and SamSat-218 from the newly built Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Far Eastern Amur region. (Xinhua/Sputnik) Photo taken on

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学英语单词
a TL
additive group
anti moral
arithmetical and logical unit
aviation obstruction beacon
axisversion
base of gas hydrate stability zone (bghsz)
be wanting
boiler face
Campano
cape fear rivers
captive item
carbolon
chaematochrome
Charles Macintosh
chlorotetracycline eye ointment
circumzygomatic wiring
consul-general
containment equipment cooling water return tank
continuous hypothermical perfu sion
convergence method
craftist
demental
direct administrative control
dodecapolis
duck viral hepatitis
elastic cloud
Entz booster
Faraday effect
flame absorption
fluid slag
Fort Flatters
free energy curve
genetic transmitting ability
giri
global refund
golden gate bridges
gomecista
half-value layer(HVL)
hand puncher
hecker
Herald Tribune
home-time
homoconjugations
hypervelocity particle
hyponasality
ismael
jailkeepers
laminar restrictor
Les Mées
Letter of Jeremiah
MADDAM
method of dramatic expression
mpeg-multi channel extention
Munch-Peterson
nanodimers
neck hole
neoglyphioceratids
Neptall
nerita incerta
not care a thing
objectists
off-line file
Old Prussian
outage of generation
overall construction time
overhalls
parameter adjustment controls
particular hazard
pawn sth. off as
podian
popish
Porocephalus
present article
prophanely
quadropolar
rake over the ashes
Ramibacterium dentium
rank-sum
rannel-tree
rassa
redesigning
remote polling technique
restness
restocking fee
rope cramp
Saskia
Schefflera chinpingensis
siliciclastics
silverizing
spastics
spert
stage of economic development
sufflame
tapping analysis
underwater gravimeter
verichip
West Helena
word locality
wound transmission
xerophyll
yucel