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Jackie: Hello, I'm Jackie Dalton, welcome to Entertainment! Today we're going to look at an issue which often comes up in the world of Entertainment, and that's being fat or thin. It's a big issue in the British media at the moment. One report says

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She called up the cable company. The cable representative asked how he could help her. She said she didn't have a picture. The TV screen was black, except for two words in big white letters: Please Wait. She said, 'Please Wait' for what? What am I wa

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电机行业常用的中英文对照

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