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Mother Teresa, who received a Nobel Peace Prize for her work on behalf of the poor, dies in india, she was 87 years old.
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Jerry, what time do you have? I have 5 o’clock
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There are three things I have learned, Never discuss with people, politics, religon, and the great pumpkin.
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Don’t ever let somebody tell you can’t do something.
- strong: S N L
- weak: d t th (canceled)
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I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass and I’m all out of bubblegum.
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The secret of life is just to live every moment.
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Another rogue(不诚实,骗子,流氓,无赖) trader has cost a bank billions.
trader
- just like
investment banker(投资银行家)or astock brocker(股票经纪人) - These people trade stocks and bonds and derivatives(股票/债券/衍生金融资产)
- They do financial trading, buy and sell something like gold/sliver/rice/
pork(猪肉) - These people who take an investment and move the money from here to there, to make more money
- professional
gamblers(赌徒 投机者) amateur(门外汉)trader- These crazy bankers, basically going to the
casino(赌场)andbetting(verb 打赌, 赌, 赌钱)on moneny, and he lost 2 billion dollars. - rogue (dishonest, it means a cheat, a scoundrel, somebody who likes to cheat you out of your money)
- cigarettes(香烟)
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German, Rolf Buchholz is the(zuh) man with (th)e mos(t) piercings, he’s got 453.
- piercings 穿孔
- asperated(送气音) “th”
- vibrated(震动声带) “th”
- hundred => hu-nerd
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A satellite that was carried to space aboard the shuttle Discovery 20 years ago is about to fall to earch, but nobody knows where the debris will hit.
- weather satellite
- space shuttle (航天飞机)
- aboard (船上、车上、在飞机上)
- debri (碎片)
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It’s a lofty, probably impossible goal.
- lofty adj.高远, 高, 万丈, 高大,
- thumbs up to you
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New York swept the Tampa Bay Rays by identical 4-2 scores in a daynight doubleheader wednesday.
- sweep v. 打扫，横扫
- identical adj. 相同，一致
- baseball n. 棒球
- day-night n. 昼夜
- doubleheader n. 连赛两场
- nine innings (九局)
- tampa 坦帕州
- bay 湾, 海湾, 机架
- rays 射线
- wednesday 星期三
英文介词at、in、on，都可用于时间，at用于时间的一点（point of time），in用于时间的期间（period of time），on用于时间的一日（day），或表示时间的接触的地方，故几点几分，天明，中午，日出，日没，始，终等概用at；日期，午前，午后，月，季，年，世纪等则概用in；某日，星期几，某日的或某周日的朝夕，某场合等则概用on。
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Jim Henson, creator of the muppets - from kermit the frog to Sesame Street - is born in Greenville Mississippi. 吉姆·汉森 (Jim Henson) 是布偶的创造者 - 从青蛙克米特到芝麻街，他出生于密西西比州格林维尔。
- puppet /ˈpəpət/ n.: 木偶, 傀儡, 伪, 傀, 儡 adj.: 木偶的
- muppets 布偶
- kermit 克米特
- carpenters n.: 木匠, 木工 v.: 作木工
- sesame /ˈsesəmē/ n.: 芝麻, 胡麻, 麻, 胡麻子
- typically 通常
- Greenville Mississippi 格林维尔 密西西比州
- abbreviation /əˌbriviˈeɪʃ(ə)n/ n.: 缩写, 简称, 略语
- Oscar The Grouch, the garbage can Muppet 爱发牢骚的奥斯卡，垃圾桶布偶
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Asian tiger mosquitoes are native to the tropics of Southeast Asian, but in the past few years they are spread all across the south eastern United States.
- skeeters 怀疑者, 蚊子
- mosquitoes 蚊子
- tropics n.: 热带
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Cat reputedly have nine lives, and he clearly wanted to spent at least one of them here in New York city.
- chip 芯片
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The frantic pacing scene changes every 11 seconds on average - often leaves kids zoned out and spun up unable to concentrate 疯狂的节奏场景平均每11秒就会变换一次—常常让孩子们昏昏欲睡，无法集中注意力
- frantic /ˈfran(t)ik/ adj.: 狂暴, 丧心病狂, 疯狂的
- pacing v.: 走, 步行, 缓慢的走
- consonant /ˈkänsənənt/ n.: 辅音, 子音 adj.: 和谐的, 蒹容
- tempo 速度 进度 拍子 节奏
- zoned out 发呆 排挤出来
- on /αː/ average 平均下来
- spun up 旋转起来
- eat up v. 吃光
- clean up v.荡涤, 涤荡
- get up v.起床, 起身, 起
- wound up v. 收场 结尾 wound现在时是wind
- if you want your watch to operate, you need to wind up 如果你想让你的手表运转，你需要上发条
- phrasal verb 动词短语
- sponge bob 海绵宝宝
- sesame street 芝麻街
- teletubbies 天线宝宝
- the spaghetti meal left me full 意大利面大餐让我饱餐一顿
- the marathon race 马拉松比赛
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An alleged SAT cheating scandal has been uncovered at a prestigious Long Island high school. This college student is accused of taking the college entrance exam for at least six students.
- alleged 美 /əˈledʒd/,英 /ə’ledʒd/ adj. 声称的, 有嫌疑的, 作为理由[辩解等]的 v. “allege”的过去式和过去分词
- scandal /ˈskandl/ n.: 丑闻, 丑事 v.: 搬弄是非
- The Hamptons 汉普顿
- prestigious /preˈstidʒəs/ adj.有威望的, 声誉高的
- be accused of 被指控
- prosecutor /ˈprɑsɪˌkjutər/ n.: 原告, 起诉人
- kick off 启动，开始
- jail /jāl/ n.: 监狱, 牢, 监, 狱, 拘留所, 犴, 班房, 囚牢, 豻, 狴 v.: 入狱, 监禁, 关押, 囚禁, 圈
- idiot n.白痴, 傻子, 蠢货, 呆子
- dumb 愚蠢的
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ST louis takes the world series opener on a cool night, It was 49 degree at the start of the game
- the gateway to the west
- arch 美 /ɑrtʃ/,英 /ɑː(r)tʃ/ n. 拱形, 拱门 v. （使）成弓形 adj. 调皮的, 淘气的
- farenheit
- celcius
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If the inmate（犯人） appeals to me for intervention（n.介入, 参加诉讼）, how can I turn my back on him?
如果犯人需要我的干涉，我怎么能坐视不管呢？
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we basically ghost-wrote the whole plan crossed the “t’s”, dotted the “i’s”, grouted the tiles。 我们基本上是代笔完成了整个计划，从头到尾都一丝不苟，甚至把瓷砖都填好了。