音标:['vɔ:ntfjl,'vɑ:nt-] ;
a. 自夸的, 自负的
a. Given to vaunting or boasting; vainly ostentatious;
boastful; vainglorious.

G: good morning! N: good morning, Gav! Did you sleep well last night? G: I slept like a baby. I fell asleep right away last night, didn't wake up once, and didn't have nay nightmares! N: that's great news! You look much more relaxed than you did yest

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The picnic was over. The Aldens sat looking out over the blue water when the factory whistle blew. Oh, dear, said Benny. Now everyone will go to work and nobody will be at home when Freddy comes. They dont all go to work, said Jessie. By the way, I n

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Is there meaning in the length of a finger? An eighteen ninety-three guidebook called Modern Etiquette in Public and Private had this to say: Long fingers are a sign of refinement. A short stubby hand a

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PHOEBE ZIMMERMANN: Im Phoebe Zimmermann. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we tell about an unusual man who had many abilities, Richard Buckminster Fuller. (MUSIC) PHOEBE ZIMMERMANN: Buildin

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Prayerful Nuns Produce Heavenly Cheese Every day, at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, the 13 resident nuns gather for prayer. Theirs is a simple Christian life of worship and meditation. The sister

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New findings from an American space rover on Mars show that much of the planet might have been too salty to sustain life. But scientists are not ruling out the possibility of life altogether, as Sky's Alistair Bunkall reports Of all the planets in t

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: a collection of life stories told in just six words. RS: But first, we have a report on a linguist in Virginia who collects accents from across America, and across the world, and

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: Charles Harrington Elster, author of The Accidents of Style: Good Advice on How Not to Write Badly. RS: It's full of examples, such as this common error. CHARLES ELSTER: What you

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Program By VOA News 07 March 2006 View Cheney Iran statement Dick Cheney Vice President Dick Cheney says Iran will not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons, and that the international community will

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1980年Sarah Connor出生在德国的一个小镇上,据说因为是祖父的奥尔良血统,使她14岁便开始在教堂的唱诗班担任演唱,然后又在父母的安排下学习正统的声乐训练,企图成为一名歌剧女演员,还在学校的舞台上出演舞台剧、音乐剧。 似乎当时的Sarah Connor即将走上古典道路,

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World No Tobacco Day Proven Successful Every year, Americans observe the Great American Smoke Out, a day set aside to encourage smokers to go without a cigarette for one day. Suddenly giving up a habit is referred to as going cold turkey. In Knoxvill

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Experts Say Political Reforms Needed for Afghanistan's Stability U.S. and NATO combat forces are set to leave Afghanistan by 2014. Afghanistan's neighbors and Western countries are pledging their commitment to the country's security and economic stab

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Simon, a college grad, always pointed out the errors in his brother Brevyn's emails. When are you going to stop confusing 'its' with 'it's'? he often asked. Brevyn, a high school grad, said that nobody ever noticed anyway. Brevyn knew that Simon was

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By Steve Herman New Delhi 03 March 2007 On Sunday India heralds the arrival of spring with the festival of Holi. While Holi is a Hindu ritual, it is celebrated with bonfires and parties by Indians of all religions. But one aspect of Holi is prompting

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Charlize: You wont forget that were going over to the Wongs for dinner tomorrow night, will you? Pete: Its etched in my brain . I wont forget. Charlize: It slipped your mind last week that we were meeting Donna at the movies, remember? Pete: I was pr

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学英语单词
abanet
absurdities test
active mixer and modulatior
apex of patella
aqusspaceman
Arcozelo
arundinella hirta
B15R
basic open hearth process
Berndale
bondsgirl
bottle rinsing machine
bowkers
candle-flame
catsuit
cautionary tales
celebutantes
cephalagra
chain condition
chenopods
cholesterone
Chun-ying
computer micrographics
continuous operation with intermittent loading
cooler tun
Cugo, R.
devonald
door stop cushion rubber
dynamometer-type multiplier
electrical penetration assembly
electromolecular propulsion
embryoscopically
enrollers
entropy power
fishmouth
flamme
frogling
geometric inheritance
give someone one
grouchinesses
guarding position
guses
hazard reducing device
head contour
hepatojugular reflex
hypotonic
intent and motive
inter exchanger
inverse file
isoflow type heater
isophyllia
Jablochkoff
juxtapyloric
lazy painter
line repeater
longstreet
lost your grip
lovelified
make out something
movable element
Moyogalpa
musclebuilding
nucleophosphatase
oil-gas-bearing character
order scrophularialess
p-azobenzenearsonate
partly-submerged orifice
Pharm. D.
powdery scab of potato
Putinland
pyramid crane
reck onable
retributive punishment
ridgways
rotor slot wedge
rubber pad
Rubus playfairianus
sap root
Sepiidae
service thermal characteristic
side-blotched lizard
slotted pin
St. Joseph
star tracker
stati
stimulus-response correlation
straightening die
suckauhock
switch clip (flat bar)
tager
tea room
tewit
therapas
thinkpads
truth value conversion
udoes
video-pulse generator
wavies
wiesner sal-tree (shorea wiesneri)
work your way through college
X-ray diffraction system