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[by:聽力課堂~vqdolsx.cn]
[00:01]award
[00:03]Industry executives will vote for the best Brit awards
[00:06]performance whether Jarvis Cocker during Michael
[00:09]Jackson's Earth Song could win it for the prince of pop
[00:13]remains to be seen.
[00:16]enlarge
[00:18]I believe that the most important forces behind the
[00:20]massive M&A wave are...: falling transportation and
[00:25]communication costs, lower trade and investment barriers
[00:30]and enlarged markets that require enlarged operations
[00:35]capable of meeting customer's demands.
[00:53]extend
[00:54]It leads the discussion to extremes at the outset: it invites
[00:59]you to think that animals should be treated either with the
[01:02]consideration humans extend to other humans, or with no
[01:07]consideration at all.
[00:39]expand
[00:40]Raising the retirement age for Social Security
[00:43]and Medicare would save money while encouraging
[00:46]Americans to work longer, thereby expanding economic potential.
[01:12]stretch
[01:15]"If a teacher is not confident with any subject, children
[01:19]pick up on that lack of confidence. If we stretch teachers'
[01:23]knowledge, they become fluent with their subject and
[01:26]give off the right signals to their pupils."
[01:30]prolong
[01:33]Avoid shaving creams in cans too -they have
[01:36]ingredients added to prolong the shelf life-and use
[01:40]unfragranced products if you have sensitive skin.
[01:45]swell
[01:47]SNP ministers told critics that they had no big agenda:
[01:52]the aim was more to swell the numbers visiting the place
[01:56]than to inflate nationalist ego.