时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2010年


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Azaria Chamberlain's father says another inquest into her death could begin early next year. Northern Territory officials are preparing a new investigation 1. That's 30 years after the baby disappeared at Uluru.  This morning, Doctor Michael Chamberlain told ABC News Breakfast a 1995 inquest that handed down an open verdict was biased 2. He says the coroner refused to rule that a dingo took Azaria because he was protecting Northern Territory's interests in tourism.


A West Australian man who was tasered 13 times by police says he wasn't given the option of pressing charges against the officers. Security vision of the 2008 incident was released by the Corruption 3 and Crime Commission last week. Police say Kevin Spratt chose not to press charges and two officers involved in the incident were fined. But Mr. Spratt says he wants the officers stood down and charged with assault.


Serbian police have clashed with protesters who were trying to disrupt a Gay Pride parade in the capital, Belgrade. Police used tear gas against those rioters who threw petrol bombs and bricks at officers. At least 44 people were injured in that incident. It was the first Gay Pride parade in Serbia since a march in 2001 was broken up in violent clashes.


Emergency workers in Hungary are battling to contain toxic 4 sludge that swept across the country. Hungary's environment minister says the wall of a reservoir containing the waste is now on the brink 5 of collapse 6. Now if that dam leaks, it could release another half a million cubic meters of sludge into waterways. The spill has killed seven people and injured more than 100.



1 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
2 biased
a.有偏见的
  • a school biased towards music and art 一所偏重音乐和艺术的学校
  • The Methods: They employed were heavily biased in the gentry's favour. 他们采用的方法严重偏袒中上阶级。
3 corruption
n.腐败,堕落,贪污
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
4 toxic
adj.有毒的,因中毒引起的
  • The factory had accidentally released a quantity of toxic waste into the sea.这家工厂意外泄漏大量有毒废物到海中。
  • There is a risk that toxic chemicals might be blasted into the atmosphere.爆炸后有毒化学物质可能会进入大气层。
5 brink
n.(悬崖、河流等的)边缘,边沿
  • The tree grew on the brink of the cliff.那棵树生长在峭壁的边缘。
  • The two countries were poised on the brink of war.这两个国家处于交战的边缘。
6 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。
学英语单词
abrasine
adding element
all-intertial guidance system
altitude transmitter
annual cost method of comparison
as becomes one
available net positive suction head
bare-faced
beta-ray
big scale
bulbourethral artery
bulk breaking agent
call button
cardioinhibitory center
carouser
Centaurea kasakorum
central-meridian transit
channel valve
chassis dry mass
colour threshold
construability
constructional play
convective motion
coronize
cosech
counterstream
crories
crossed axes shaving method
deter from
deutoxylem
difference between reservoir pressure and saturation pressure
discrimination lawsuit
Do the Dance
dupiaza
encryption scheme
enzootic bovine hematuria
examinee
explosion-proof lamp
genus Phoradendron
grain of sand
having kittens
heavy traffic area
hepaprotective
high-sulphur coal
howdenite (chiastolite)
i-like
IgD
impact drill
invariance theorem of dimensions
invertebrate paleobiogeochemistry
kalevi
L'Isle-Jourdain
lewdest
logania
loose pin
lower decomposition
make a talk
master of a ship
monospermus
nasm
natural quarrying
Ndom
nonreflective
North Vernon
off standard voltage
Old Blazes
on the watch
Oreana
overall cable assembly
parallel wire ammeter
pin-hole irregular iceberg
plagiostropha quintuplex
pseudo-romantic
rated motor torque
ratio differential relay
RDEB
reflection at critical angle
retransfecting
rule-of-thumb method
selective solvent extraction
site size
site-specificity
spannish merino
starscapes
stereoscan photograph
sub-schemas
symbiotism
system of
tandem circuit
teaching plan
teloidine
tender notice
tetracarbonylcobalt
theta-solvents
top of the hour
Tranquilan
Tuamotu
U-18933
Vasilishki
veritab
winter wheat mosaic virus
zoogeographers