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• 蓝色多瑙河 2023-03-18

<{p}>To walk around Lititz on a perfect spring day is to see small-town America at its picture-postcard best. Pensioners stroll along the main street, stopping at the tea shops. With around 10,000 residents, the town in Pennsylvania's Amish country is so ___ that if you saw it in a film you might assume it was a set.<{/p}>

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• tzy789 2023-03-18

<{p}>On its own, a gap in knowledge of the peregrinations of waders might not matter much. But such ___ add up. And for data that feed into research on climate change, which the timings of bird migrations do, such losses are important.<{/p}>

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• deng_yulin 2023-03-06

In Lake Maracaibo, where the first big oil discoveries were made in the 1920s, locals say spills have become constant since 2015. Sewage and agricultural pollution have only worsened matters; much of the vast lake is now covered with a ___ carpet of algae.

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• 宇轩 2023-03-06

<{p}>There in the valley, the forest is scarred with bare patches of mud and sand, evidence of the destruction wrought by illegal gold mining. And Venezuela's government, far from trying to stop such environmental ___, is encouraging it.<{/p}>

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• 7415207 2023-03-06

<{p}>Few of those who spoke at CPAC -- the right's annual beauty pageant -- dared mention Ukraine. Mike Pompeo, who as secretary of state may have done more to embolden Mr. Putin than anyone except Mr. Trump, ___ the subject only in order to blame the crisis on Mr. Biden.<{/p}>

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• 萧萧 2023-03-06

<{p}>14, 21 and 28 are all ___ of 7.<{/p}>

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• 信仰。 2023-03-06

<{p}>The rest of Europe seems equally ___ for change. Plenty of sacred cows from across the continent were slaughtered along with German ones.<{/p}>

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• 安娜尔 2023-03-06

<{p}>For decades the EU's biggest member has been self-effacing. Being constructive in Europe, its voice merely one of many, was Germany's way of showing ___ for the second world war. Now it may have no choice but to take on the big role the EU needs it to play.<{/p}>

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• michael1062 2023-03-06

<{p}>The EU, at its heart a "peace project", now dabbles in the vocabulary of war. A continent often hobbled by its ___ to squabble has found a common voice.<{/p}>

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• 24k 2021-04-25

<{p}>Many outsiders were taken aback by the Chinese public's broad tolerance of zero-covid controls, notably in the first two years of the pandemic. Even the months-long lockdown of nearly 25m people in Shanghai, in the spring of 2022, was ___ by many other Chinese.<{/p}>

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• Royston Yuen 2021-04-24

<{p}>Taiwan said 30 Chinese warplanes flew close to its airspace, prompting it to ___ its air force.<{/p}>

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• 173805655 2021-04-23

<{p}>When Elizabeth II inherited the throne in 1952, great swathes of the world map were bedecked in imperial red. Britain still ruled -- or had a predominant influence over -- some 50 d___, colonies and protectorates, including at least 15 in Africa, more than a dozen in the Caribbean and a maritime gaggle in the Pacific.<{/p}>

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• 姚建龙 2021-04-23

<{p}>A blare of trumpets signalled the arrival of King Charles III, who walked briskly and took a seat on a throne, next to his wife, Camilla, the queen c___.<{/p}>

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• 130****6663 2021-04-23

<{p}>"The downside is that the new monarch has already had two public<{i}> hissy fits<{/i}> involving malfuctioning pens, which have gone viral." Here <{i}>hissy fit<{/i}>means ___.<{/p}>

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• 主编 2021-04-23

<{p}>To bow and s___ is to be too polite to an important person in order to gain their approval.<{/p}>

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• 主编 2021-04-22

<{p}>A good vegan milk needs to look like milk and taste like milk, whether it's a fatty version, preferred by bakers, or a ___ one, favoured by the health-conscious.<{/p}>

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• 阿邦 2021-04-20

<{p}>The post-pandemic ___ of tech firms continued into the new year. Amazon confirmed that it is cutting 18,000 jobs, mostly in its e-commerce division. Salesforce, a software giant, announced that is is laying off 10% of its workforce. Its CEO admitted that he had "hired too many people" heading into an economic downturn.<{/p}>

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• 抹茶小姐姐 2021-04-20

<{p}>Linear algebra manipulates m___. These are grids of numbers (representing c___ of simultaneous equations) that can be added and multiplied a bit like individual numbers.<{/p}>

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• tousu 2021-04-20

<{p}>You need to have 500 or more connections in your profile to be taken seriously. To achieve this, you need to step out of your comfort zone and ___ complete strangers.<{/p}>

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• 哆啦A梦 2021-04-19

<{p}>With his relentless energy but equally diminutive attention span, Garlin squandered his talents on several potentially exciting but uncompleted projects, much to the dismay of his friends who, while venerating his enthusiasm, ___ his unfocused nature.<{/p}>

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