hold off:保持距离

2006-02-16 11:44

Overwhelming favorite Wang Meng won China the first gold medal in Turin, holding off Bulgaria's Evgenia Radanova by the length of a skate in the women's 500-meter short track final Wednesday night.

intangible cultural heritage: 非物质文化遗产

2006-02-16 10:36

Examples of intangible cultural heritage such as craftsmanship, festival rituals and languages,are to be showcased together for the first time at the National Museum to celebrate efforts to protect the country's cultural legacy.

down-to-earth:实际的,切实的

2006-02-15 09:39

"The Party and the nation as a whole must take a down-to-earth approach in the building of a new socialist countryside that will truly benefit farmers," said Hu, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China.

crackdown:取缔,制裁

2006-02-14 13:22

The discipline watchdog of the Communist Party of China (CPC) pledged heavier crackdown on corruption and other acts violating the CPC's disciplines, according to its work report released Monday.

comatose:昏迷的

2006-02-13 17:02

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has beencomatose since suffering a massive stroke more than five weeks ago, was in critical but stable condition Sunday following emergency abdominal surgery, the hospital treating him said.

peace saboteur: 和平破坏者

2006-02-13 09:15

Beijing slammed Wednesday Taiwan "president" Chen Shui-bian as a "troublemaker" and "peace saboteur" while condemning his plan to scrap the island's guidelines on unification with the mainland.

overstaff: 人员过多

2006-02-10 11:14

The poll by the Beijing-based polling agency Horizon Group indicated that 67 per cent of people questioned believed some departments remained overstaffed despite previous cutbacks.

fever pitch: 高度兴奋, 狂热

2006-02-09 16:00

Rumours of an impending agreement reached fever pitch on Tuesday after Robert Iger, Disney's president and CEO, was quoted on Hong Kong Cable TV as saying talks with the Chinese Government were "ongoing."

graffiti: 涂鸦

2006-02-09 10:31

For about 120 dollars, visitors to China's Great Wall can now leave their mark on a fake wall built recently in the name of preventing graffiti on the genuine structure.

play up: 大肆渲染

2006-02-08 14:16

China yesterday rejected a Pentagon report that plays up the "China military threat," saying it poses no threat to the world.

stem cell: 干细胞

2006-02-07 11:30

South Korean Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) on Monday said disgraced stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk mismanaged a huge amount of state funds and public donations for his research in the past years.

lip synching: 假唱

2006-02-07 09:44

After an infamous tiff between Elton John and Madonna over lip-synching, Britain's Musicians' Union has called on performers to come clean -- audiences should be told if they are miming rather than singing.

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