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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Cooler weather forecast for this week is expected to help bring blazes across New South Wales under control. About a hundred fires are burning with residents in the central west townships of Kandos and Rylstone still on  alert. But the weather bureau says conditions will ease this week with cooler temperatures and some rain.


South Australian Premier 1 Mike Rann says a television program about his friendship with a former Parliament House waitress included allegations that are totally false. In the program, Michelle Chantelois said she had sex with the Premier in his office. In a written statement, the Premier rejects suggestions he preyed 2 on Ms Chantelois’ vulnerabilities or exploited her in any way.


The Opposition’s called for answers as to how detainees ended up injured in the secure detention 3 facility on Christmas Island. A riot broke up between 150 Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum 4 seekers being held at the center on Saturday night. Thirty-seven detainees were injured. Three had to be flown to Perth for treatment for broken bones.


And even Santa’s fallen victim to the anti-aging obsession 5 about times. After nearly five decades, New Zealand’s big Santa has been forced to undergo a face-lift to prop 6 up a droopy eye so he didn’t scare children.


I’ll have more news later.



1 premier
adj.首要的;n.总理,首相
  • The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
  • He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。
2 preyed
v.掠食( prey的过去式和过去分词 );掠食;折磨;(人)靠欺诈为生
  • Remorse preyed upon his mind. 悔恨使他内心痛苦。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • He had been unwise and it preyed on his conscience. 他做得不太明智,这一直让他良心不安。 来自辞典例句
3 detention
n.滞留,停留;拘留,扣留;(教育)留下
  • He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
  • He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。
4 asylum
n.避难所,庇护所,避难
  • The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
  • Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。
5 obsession
n.困扰,无法摆脱的思想(或情感)
  • I was suffering from obsession that my career would be ended.那时的我陷入了我的事业有可能就此终止的困扰当中。
  • She would try to forget her obsession with Christopher.她会努力忘记对克里斯托弗的迷恋。
6 prop
vt.支撑;n.支柱,支撑物;支持者,靠山
  • A worker put a prop against the wall of the tunnel to keep it from falling.一名工人用东西支撑住隧道壁好使它不会倒塌。
  • The government does not intend to prop up declining industries.政府无意扶持不景气的企业。
学英语单词
AC balance indica-tor
antheraea yamamai superba
arch back
asbestos bitumen
blowing house
Bol'shoy Atalyk, Gora
Bolzano-Bozen, Prov.di
brachium quadrigeminum anterius
bullous
bynine
calendar method of birth control
cartilago thyreoides
Cederschiold's massage
combination type processes
connection size standard
contiguous fishery zone
cross board
cut them off
dicraeus orientalis
digital-to-analog ladder
drilling water
easy of sale
emulsion cleaner
end-years
epicephalofortuneine
field deployable communications
Firbolg
Flamanville
flexural resonance method
foreseers
furto
gamma photometer
geological exploration in coal mine
Gerrhosaurus
gianicolo
giove
green wax
ground works
Gundobad
have a poor chance for
have only self to thank
hellendale
herpes simplex keratitis
highly-educated
Hiketa
hip roll
hsdu
island touch
kamm
kundle
landed plated hole
late erythroblast
latitude effect of primary cosmic rays
lepra graecorum
leucocratite
Limassol
lobelia family
Lopurin
managuas
metallographic technology
minimum flow
musicogenic epilepsy
nitrile-modified ethylene propylene rubber
Nomina Anatomica
non-military vessel categories
outs-of-london
pneograph
pneumatic servo element
polygamists
proboscis-like nose
pseudopolydora paucibranchiata
pufahlite
renal arteries
reticulate cup
river-bed variation
rough sort
RUBPC
rule connection graph
sand strength testing machine
Santa Maura
scamping speech
schaible
self-quenching
sensory cilia
shorting(shortening)period
sound flow
species packing
st-506 winchester drive
still distillation
stochastic-dynamical model
structural continuity
sundel
tambrito
the scholarship of government sponsorship for overseas study
theoretical crystallography
toluene halide
Tongchon-ni
transmembrane gradient of hydrogen ion
urban-shadow
velocity augment function
whooee
zerboni