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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The head of the Commonwealth 1 Games organising committee says he's confident enough can be done to stop any teams pulling the pin on the games. Eight countries are threatening to withdraw if their concerns unaddressed. The Indian government has held crisis talks and the president of the Games Federation 2 is holding more meetings with Indian officials today about problems with the facilities.


Nine Chinese detainees are continuing their roof-top protest at Sydney's Villawood Detention 3 Centre. They want a quick resolution to their applications to stay in Australia. The nephew of a Fijian detainee who jumped to his death from the roof on the centre on Monday has been released from detention.


Barack Obama has called on world leaders to back the Middle East peace talks. The US president has told the United Nations General Assembly to put aside pessimism 4 and cynicism and get behind the relaunched talks. He says the bloodshed will continue unless the Palestinians and Israelis can find a way to co-exist.


A second round of strikes against pension reform have thrown France into chaos 5. Half the rail services have been cancelled causing major disruptions on the Paris metro 6. Thousands of demonstrators also marched through city streets, they're protesting against the plan to raise the retirement 7 age to 62.


And a speeding goods trains has killed seven elephants in India.



1 commonwealth
n.共和国,联邦,共同体
  • He is the chairman of the commonwealth of artists.他是艺术家协会的主席。
  • Most of the members of the Commonwealth are nonwhite.英联邦的许多成员国不是白人国家。
2 federation
n.同盟,联邦,联合,联盟,联合会
  • It is a federation of 10 regional unions.它是由十个地方工会结合成的联合会。
  • Mr.Putin was inaugurated as the President of the Russian Federation.普京正式就任俄罗斯联邦总统。
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 pessimism
n.悲观者,悲观主义者,厌世者
  • He displayed his usual pessimism.他流露出惯有的悲观。
  • There is the note of pessimism in his writings.他的著作带有悲观色彩。
5 chaos
n.混乱,无秩序
  • After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后,城市一片混乱。
  • The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。
6 metro
n.地铁;adj.大都市的;(METRO)麦德隆(财富500强公司之一总部所在地德国,主要经营零售)
  • Can you reach the park by metro?你可以乘地铁到达那个公园吗?
  • The metro flood gate system is a disaster prevention equipment.地铁防淹门系统是一种防灾设备。
7 retirement
n.退休,退职
  • She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.她想享受退休生活而不必为金钱担忧。
  • I have to put everything away for my retirement.我必须把一切都积蓄起来以便退休后用。
学英语单词
abrasion paste
academic cheating
acetocyclobutane
akamba
albanian-american
Americanophobes
applied factory overhead expense
approximate adjustment
ARSOF
Arturo
bmpr
bombing angle
browse with
bulk boiling region
call off something
ciliated cyst
composite tax return
creative intelligence
criminal policy
Dalbergia hupeana
decimal fixed-point constant
dennistouns
design iteration
Desulfuromonas
dmitri dmitrievich shostakoviches
dry type tower abrasion mill
Engine full astern!
epidemic typhus fever
firefront
fling away a sprat to catch a whale
Flint-mill
flix
forage acre
gamma ray radiography
gland excretory duct
gomez-pompa
grid-detection voltmeter
groundnut root knot nematode disease
have sth in one's sleeve
homochromo-isomer
inconstant
irrotational velocity field
issuer register
joint pliers
last-survivor policy
layer lattice mineral
light-saber
logical device table
lox unit
MAC (mean aerodynamic chord)
mannerless
Margaret Higgins Sanger
Maxwell Anderson
mescaleros
mill-race
moral degeneration
newly industrialized country
nominal weight
non-uniform gas
nontestamentary
ntra
obliged
over sized fibres
paleoxylology
picture-to-synchronization ratio
places of historic interest
point-by-point indicator
post-communist
practice of law
pressure lag
pseudomicroseism
reburials
rock quality designation
scolecosporous
semiautomatic lathe
sgsrsasisns-s
shade-tolerant
spawned
specialization of exportation
spin eigenfunction
st. petersburgs
stump revision
SVOD
sword of state
system support control
taalibe
tank spreader
TCVN
tetranychus kanzawai
thymus persistens hyperplastica
tool bag
top from the bottom
Uauaris, R.
uphill quenching
vacillate
Vu Thu
well rounded
white-haired boy
XAC
yellow mercuric oxide Ointment
Yeongilman
yita