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A: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: our guest is linguist Geoff Nunberg. He's been listening to how Americans debate issues, and there's a particular word he often finds they invoke: sensitivities. GEOFF NUNBERG: It'

发表于:2018-12-04 / 阅读(161) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

George Soros -- the financial crocodile George Soros wants to be the Bono of the financial world. The speculator whose assault on sterling ejected Britain from the European exchange rate mechanism that September of 10 years ago has a mission--to u

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By Scott Stearns Washington 28 March 2006 Vice President Dick Cheney, right, looks towards President Bush as he makes a statement to reporters, March 28, 2006, in Washington President Bush continues h

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Asking for input What do you think (about . . . )? How do you feel (about . . . )? Any ideas? What are the alternatives? Exploring Options Let's look at Option 1. What (do you think) about Plan B? How about the third alternative? Let's consider Bob's

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By Phuong Tran Dakar 29 March 2007 In Guinea, the newly-appointed Prime Minister Lansana Kouyate has named more than 20 new government members, the latest step in the strike-ending deal reached last month that ended weeks of violent unrest and work s

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50 years after introduction of the Pill, reproductive rights still at stake for women worldwide Rosanne Skirble | Washington, DC 12 May 2010 The Pill was approved 50 years ago and, today, 12 million American women take the oral contraceptive. In May

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Radio Essays Explore Technological Creativity There are mechanisms in nature as well as in human endeavors like engineering and art. Since 1988, the creative manipulation of these mechanisms has been explored in short radio essays about the history o

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The Obama administration appears to be sending mixed signals on whether a second stimulus package will be needed to pull the U.S. economy out of a deep and prolonged recession. Democrats and Republicans are expressing dissatisfaction with the impact

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Hospital 医院 children's hospital 儿童医院 general hospital, polyclinic 综合医院 hospital for lepers, leprosarium 麻风病院 maternity hospital, lying-inhospital 产科医院 mental hospital, mental home 精神病院 obstetrics and gynecology hospital 妇产医院

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Be an Optimist(做一个乐观的人) Do you see the glass as half-full rather than half empty? Do you keep your eye upon the doughnut,not upon the hole? Suddenly these clichs are scientific questions,as researchers scrutinize the power of

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Improving Productivity by Improving Lighting We all know that our surroundings affect our ability to get work done, from that irritating buzzing from the next cubicle over to the uncomfortable chair causing our back pain. But what about lighting? Has

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The Productivity Tricks and Daily Habits of Famous People Famous visionaries often develop a reputation for having a few eccentricities. However, for many people, these small eccentricities are part of a larger group of daily rituals that help them t

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By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 19 July 2006 Turkey's prime minister says his military is moving forward in drafting plans for sending forces into northern Iraq to clear out Kurdish rebel bases, but added that officials are also holding talks with t

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今天我们要学的词是uptick。 Uptick, 名词,意思是上升。 There has been an uptick in violent crimes in the past year, 过去一年里暴力犯罪有所上升。Local retailers expect to see a sales uptick in this year's holiday shoppi

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By David McAlary Washington 14 March 2007 International financier George Soros is giving $3 million to help public health experts fight a lethal, drug-resistant form of tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa. VOA's David McAlary in Washington reports tha

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Tim: So, you know, we're talking a little bit about jobs. I'm kind of curious. Do you prefer working in a group or do you prefer working alone? Jeff: That's a tough question. Tim: It definitely is because there is good things about both. Jeff: That's

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Todd: Could you talk about, when you travel, do you prefer to travel with somebody to travel alone? Keren: I prefer to travel with someone but on my next trip I'm actually traveling alone so I'm looking forward to seeing whether I enjoy myself. Yeah.

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By Sean Maroney Washington 09 December 2006 U.S. President George Bush says his administration is reviewing the bipartisan report issued this past week on the situation in Iraq, and will seriously consider its recommendations. VOA's Sean Maroney rep

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Two frogs in the belly of a snake were considering their altered circumstances.This is pretty bad luck,said one.Don't jump to conclusions,the other said,we are out of the wet and provided with board and lodging. With lodging,certainly,

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今天我们要学的词是uptick。 Uptick, 名词,意思是上升。 There has been an uptick in violent crimes in the past year, 过去一年里暴力犯罪有所上升。Local retailers expect to see a sales uptick in this year's holiday shoppi

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'tend to one's knitting
a-glitters
abbreviating keyboard command
action replay
afterextension
aggregateness
antiscreening
Aviogon lens
below court
brookens
cadmium standard cell
canete
carbostyri1
chain bracelet
challengeable
cheiranthus cheiris
chemical-ground pulp
collision liability of the ship at fault
copes-
cordycepin
cross-contamination
decommunized
department of medicine
disagreeable smelling gas
ductuli aberrantes
duselle
dwarf form
electrical hydrometer
encircler
estelles
external beam current
eyeservices
farflung
filatovite
foreign exchange retaining system
geranii oleum
grooved pulley
gulfs of martaban
high-pressure fuel injection pipe assembly
hyperstereoscopic holographic image
impregnating
Kepler's equations
kerwallop
knock sb. down with a feather
lock position
majority logic operator
medial patellar ligament
men-midwives
methylphosphonate
Mira metal
moorball
mop buckets
morbid thirst
Moreau River
Nanbu
navigational control and display unit (ncdu)
net pump suction head
nominal atmic bomb
nuisance suit
office of entry
Ouantonou
output isoquant
pallecent
Pelsall
perniciosiform anemia
picks per inch
picture attribute
pixieishly
plate imput
plous
polyureic
preliminary impulse
QRSA
reducend
Rheidae
right heir
robot-machine system
rosburg
Rsk-2
rufescine
sea hazard
Skelton, John
slidness
solid glass door
spectral line self-reversal
spohn
star knob
stepped grate
Sucina
symbolic thought
take minutes
television microwave transmitter
tetrablemmid
theoretical plant morphology
to pile
transfer-printings
transition-fit
uber-delicious
uterine relaxant
WUI
yellow Sigatoka
Zincdibraunite