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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A west Australian man who won the right to starve himself to death has died in a Perth nursing home. Quadriplegic Christian 1 Rossiter was confined to a wheelchair, breathed through a tube and was fed artificially. He told his cares he wanted to die, and last month, the WA Supreme 2 Court ruled he had the right to refuse food.




The Victorian Premier 3 John Brumby departs for India today, hoping to ease concern on the subcontinent over racist 4 bashings in Melbourne. A spate 5 of recent violence against Indian students has received extensive media attention in India. Meanwhile, the Premier has abandoned the Mumbai leg of his trip, after warnings of a possible terrorist attack.




Creditors 6 affected 7 by the collapse 8 of Babcock & Brown have contributed more than 300,000 dollars to a fighting fund. It'll be used to pursue the failed investment bank's former directors and senior management. The money will help cover the cost of a more thorough examination of the group's collapse, including weather the company traded while insolvent 9.




And half a million people have jammed into Havana's Revolution Square for a peace concert. 14 Spanish-language pop stars are performing in an effort to bring together Cubans and Americans. The concert is being televised internationally.




We'll have more news later.



1 Christian
adj.基督教徒的;n.基督教徒
  • They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
  • His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
2 supreme
adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的
  • It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
3 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。
4 racist
n.种族主义者,种族主义分子
  • a series of racist attacks 一连串的种族袭击行为
  • His speech presented racist ideas under the guise of nationalism. 他的讲话以民族主义为幌子宣扬种族主义思想。
5 spate
n.泛滥,洪水,突然的一阵
  • Police are investigating a spate of burglaries in the area.警察正在调查这一地区发生的大量盗窃案。
  • Refugees crossed the border in full spate.难民大量地越过了边境。
6 creditors
n.债权人,债主( creditor的名词复数 )
  • They agreed to repay their creditors over a period of three years. 他们同意3年内向债主还清欠款。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Creditors could obtain a writ for the arrest of their debtors. 债权人可以获得逮捕债务人的令状。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 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。
8 collapse
vi.累倒;昏倒;倒塌;塌陷
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
9 insolvent
adj.破产的,无偿还能力的
  • They lost orders and were insolvent within weeks.他们失去了订货,几周后就无法偿还债务。
  • The bank was declared insolvent.银行被宣布破产。
学英语单词
Acanthobdellidea
actual payload
AE (acoustic emission)
allouez
amortization of research cost
auger transition
binge-watchers
bran flake
bretton woods agreement
burnkrant
by-fruit
by-position
Carex dichroa
Clostridium bellonense
commerge
concurve
coraco-
cross rate
Curculigo orchioides Gaertn.
deadly condition
department of anthropology
department of health education
detonation condition
entrap into
ezechiels
fix with screw
friction of steam
frost-freer
Geodetic Reference System
gizzy
grid wall
harquebusier
heavy media cyclone
hematogenous osteomyelitis
high-density magnetic disk
I'm rubber, you're glue
illeck
Judahites
kendal rank correlation
Kolatsel'ga
Lammi
leucacene
Lindya
locally-growns
MAFOR
manifold hood
meatloaves
megaphyllous
midget tube
moss genera
multireflection
multiunit detector
nicotin
non regulated discharge
optical emission analytical instrument
organosulphurs
orthomesocephalous
orthorhombic tetrahedron
Pachachaca, R.
PBRT
pizes
play with a full deck
possession by entirties
prasse
private-enterprises
protective colorations
pueblo-style
Queens, Valley of the
quilters
quintuple
remote input-output station
roughs it
saddle type conveyer
safety function
Scott's Spleenwort
sequential data structure
Sesamia inferens Walker
sinoreserpine
sophora sinenses
speed-regulating
spindle-head
statutory tenant
Stemlersville
strawberryade
subscriber dialing
Tazi ware
Teucrium canadensis
thermal refined structure
thio adoli
tiger cowries
triselenide
tumm
u interface
ultrasound cardiogram
undecimalized
undutifulnesses
unhellish
vice-consulate
wara reb
washboard moraines
water pouring test
watering-place