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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Israel has hinted at a compromise with the Palestinians as direct talks between Middle East leaders begin in Washington. Israel's defence minister said the Jewish state would be willing to hand over parts of Jerusalem to the Palestinians. The US President Barack Obama is hosting those talks between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Mr Obama says acts of violence in the meantime will not derail these talks.


Police in the United States have shot dead a man who was holding several hostages in the state of Maryland. The man took at least three hostages inside the headquarters of the Discovery Channel. Police say the man entered the building with a handgun, and was believed to have an explosive device strapped 1 to his chest. All the hostages are now safe.


The sole survivor 2 of a plane crash in Papua New Guinea is being treated in a north Queensland hospital. The New Zealand man was flown to Townsville on a plane chartered by Careflight New South Wales. Four men died when that Trans Air jet crashed at the end of a runway on Misima Island yesterday. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is investigating the cause of the crash.


The New South Wales Premier 3 Kristina Keneally is in damage control this morning after the resignation of a fourth minister in less than a year. The Ports and Waterways Minister Paul McLeay resigned yesterday after accessing pornographic and gambling 4 websites on his work computer. He was caught out by a new internet filter in state parliament and a small number of other parliamentary internet users may require further investigation 5 as well.



1 strapped
adj.用皮带捆住的,用皮带装饰的;身无分文的;缺钱;手头紧v.用皮带捆扎(strap的过去式和过去分词);用皮带抽打;包扎;给…打绷带
  • Make sure that the child is strapped tightly into the buggy. 一定要把孩子牢牢地拴在婴儿车上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The soldiers' great coats were strapped on their packs. 战士们的厚大衣扎捆在背包上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 survivor
n.生存者,残存者,幸存者
  • The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
  • There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。
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 gambling
n.赌博;投机
  • They have won a lot of money through gambling.他们赌博赢了很多钱。
  • The men have been gambling away all night.那些人赌了整整一夜。
5 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。
学英语单词
a poor relation
abductively
alizarin blue abs
azo dye
babie
Bedrashen
blahblahs
bottomfeeding
brecksville
bring someone to the scratch
carbon fiber micro-disk electrode
case involving alien
celebre
charney
Cheleken, Poluostrov
childbrides
composite word
contactant
convex crystal
cuzzies
data manipulation language (dml)
DC comparator type bridge
diazoimine
digitali-form
electric interrupter
estropiated
feather-beds
flashover at brush
fng
fully paid-up
give sb a buzz
green sheet
HD lubricating oil
healed varnish
hymnally
iconically
igneous suite
initial X-ray tube voltage
inosculans
input coupling factor
lanthanum hexaantipyrine iodide
lapstrakes
lean over backward
make one's best endeavours
Maracell
marginal lappet
Marshalltown
mauka
maxse
mechanicalizes
mid-fields
miss by a mile
morpio
moving diaphragm element
mucigel
Mòr, Eilean
neurotherapeutics
noncensorship
oesophageal commissure
oophytes
operment
ou
outsoar
oxygen atom
Paktīā, Velayāt-e
PC-SIMV
phlobodipsia
photoelectric scanning device
pineal glands
place in the sun
poltys nigrinus
proocyte
propellant waste
propylic
quarterjack
reckon on
revaluation of long-lived assets
Rhus succedanea
riveting-machine
runninesses
Saint Paul's School
San Antonio, C.de
Scoliodontini
scombrine
slagwool
sodium ethylxanthate
solar cell cover
space law
spring over
stability of drift
subspecific name
supersonic liquid carburizing
tactical operations center
Taï, Parc National de
telemanipulators
the acme of happiness
the red lane
tramp ship
tug barge combination
unaffectionate
unsimplified Chinese character
ventral cornus