时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2009年


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Celebrations are continuing in Germany as thousands mark 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. German Chancellor 1 Angela Merkel joined the world leaders and dignitaries, setting off the line of giant dominos where the wall once stood. Despite the rain, tens of thousands of people gathered at the Brandenburg Gate to hear world leaders speak about the historic significance of events of 1989 and the reunification of the East and West.


Police are investigating the deaths of two people in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. The bodies of an elderly man and his 37-year-old daughter were found at a house in Randwick yesterday afternoon. A 3-year-old girl thought to be the man’s grandchild was taken to hospital with stab wounds.


Torrential rain is continuing to lash 2 Central America as Hurricane Ida triggers more floods and mudslides. The death toll 3 in El Salvador has risen to 130, and tens of thousands of people have been left homeless, rescue teams are struggling to reach some of the worst affected 4 areas.


And food manufacture Kraft has launched a 17-billion-dollar bid for the British confectionery giant Cadbury. Cadbury’s management has already rejected an offer from Kraft. It’s now made a direct bid to the company’s shareholders 5.


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1 chancellor
n.(英)大臣;法官;(德、奥)总理;大学校长
  • They submitted their reports to the Chancellor yesterday.他们昨天向财政大臣递交了报告。
  • He was regarded as the most successful Chancellor of modern times.他被认为是现代最成功的财政大臣。
2 lash
v.系牢;鞭打;猛烈抨击;n.鞭打;眼睫毛
  • He received a lash of her hand on his cheek.他突然被她打了一记耳光。
  • With a lash of its tail the tiger leaped at her.老虎把尾巴一甩朝她扑过来。
3 toll
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
4 affected
adj.不自然的,假装的
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
5 shareholders
n.股东( shareholder的名词复数 )
  • The meeting was attended by 90% of shareholders. 90%的股东出席了会议。
  • the company's fiduciary duty to its shareholders 公司对股东负有的受托责任
学英语单词
abbacchios
alegra
anzia formosana
arc length control
as-built-data
blow tide
boiling frog
Bonen
botanical science
branch-line pumping system
c4 cycle
carbarsone
carboloy composition resistor
carry a bone in the mouth
castle
Charles Hector
circular routing
clutch the straw
coactivation
complex dunes
cucurbituril
demixed
doups
dummy subprogram name
dusing
earth detection
elephant's-foot
external part
fagginess
far pointer
feed-back balanced code
fetes
follr sand
formyltetrahydrofolic acid
free district
full-face attack
genus chaunas
go hell for leather
groroilite
grosz
ground clutter
gyro output axis pick up
hargrett
hollow-drill shank
indifference map
Indigofera ramulosissima
iocarmate
jonist strip
kit-off
lawn jockey
leakage of authority
linear hypothesis
magnetohydrodynamic separation
main beam longitudinal
mass storage dump/verify program
median arcuate ligament
MKW mill
mods
national comprehensive equilibrium
negative resist rinse
nonmotility
North Aegean
off lying
on-let
onose
Pabx, private automatic branch exchange.
paines
pentti
pireneitega taiwanensis
pornerastic
prescription-drug
proposed regulations
pruningshears
pyroxylin plastic
reconstructive policy
redmont
rostrum of corpus callosum
round chip box
scretin
semiconductor
shoot to kill
soarage
solar utilization
spot analysis
Streptothrix pulmonalis
terms of trade effect
the initial stage
tiders
to bolt
track-path
trade-wind inversion
triangular buoy
ultraisms
undivorcing
undulant fevers
vane type magnetron
variable-resolution image analysis
washboiler
watertight
whoopi
wt.
zinc deficiencies