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[by:聽力課堂~pm4x.cn]
[00:00]piston
[00:03]So auto repair for the island's vintage cars becomes a
[00:07]creative endeavor: shampoo is used for brake fluid; iron
[00:11]pipes are cut up for piston rings.
[00:14]plead
[00:15]First, the object of our study pleads for definition.
[00:19]What is an intellectual?
[00:22]dread
[00:23]The physicist rightly dreads precise argument, since
[00:27]an argument that is convincing only if it is precise loses
[00:31]all its force if the assumptions on which it is based are
[00:34]slightly changed
[00:36]stead
[00:38]The government's policy - not only to preserve its
[00:40]forest cover but to increase large scale reforestation and
[00:44]afforestation drives - also puts the country in good
[00:48]stead, says the report.
[00:51]plural
[00:53]However, contemporary Britain is an increasingly
[00:56]plural democracy, in which we all live alongside people
[01:00]whose worldviews we may dislike and whose opinions
[01:04]we may abhor.
[01:06]The pond-a common feature of rural resource
[01:10]management-collects water from the monsoon rains that
[01:13]would otherwise have just been wasted.
[01:17]Senate
[01:18]The US Senate has passed a sweeping healthcare reform
[01:21]bill, bringing Barack Obama a step closer to enacting one
[01:26]of his signature campaign promises and to meeting a goal
[01:29]sought by US presidents for decades.