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 victims and their families say last night's guilty verdicts in the trial of Jayant Patel have bought closure. The 60-year-old former Bundaberg surgeon has been convicted of three counts of manslaughter and one of grievous bodily harm. Patel will be sentenced tomorrow and his lawyers are expected to appeal against the manslaughter convictions.


The popularity of New South Wales Government has plummeted 1 in the latest Newspoll. The opinion poll in today's Australian newspaper indicates primary support for Labor 2 has dropped six points to just 25 percent. The Coalition 3 is on 46 percent. That's the worst performance at any state government ever recorded by Newspoll.


Mildura in northwest Victoria will today become the first place in Australia to have its analogue 4 TV signal switched off. Free-to-air channels will only be available on digital TV sets or through set top boxes. The analogue signal across Australia will gradually be switched off over the next 2.5 years.


America's new top commander in Afghanistan has indicated the security situation in Afghanistan is tenuous 5. General David Petraeus is appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee after President Barack Obama nominated him to lead the war. General Petraeus says he supports the president's plan to begin withdrawing troops in July next year.


And in Greece, riot police have clashed with protesters outside the national parliament in Athens over proposed austerity measures.



1 plummeted
v.垂直落下,骤然跌落( plummet的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Share prices plummeted to an all-time low. 股票价格暴跌到历史最低点。
  • A plane plummeted to earth. 一架飞机一头栽向地面。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
3 coalition
n.结合体,同盟,结合,联合
  • The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
  • Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
4 analogue
n.类似物;同源语
  • The gill of a fish is the analogue of the lung of a cat.鱼的鳃和猫的肺是类似物。
  • But aside from that analogue standby,the phone, videoconferencing is their favorite means of communication.除了备用的相似物电话,可视对话是他们最喜欢的沟通手段。
5 tenuous
adj.细薄的,稀薄的,空洞的
  • He has a rather tenuous grasp of reality.他对现实认识很肤浅。
  • The air ten miles above the earth is very tenuous.距离地面十公里的空气十分稀薄。
学英语单词
a type of wild soybean
a-bafelled
adaptive least square
addressing structure
adherent prepuce
aerophore
American tiger
ammoniated peat
antiredeposition
arch span
ax head
balloon ceiling
BHU
bivariate normal probability density function
bore-hole immersed pump
cathodegram
cgta
ch'un ying chuan
charactering
chase out of
Chelydra
chlorinated compound
chronic disability
clethra
coarse staple fibre
colmer
Corpus ciliare
counts down
cuckoldy
desaccharify
diisobutyl sulfate
disestablishmentarians
doubled up
DVIS
Echiurida
evidence matter
fire extinguishing fan
fluid exposure
formed plywood
gaseous edema
get out of step with
gravelle
Grdelica
happeningest
haut
hemiplegy
high q
in growth chambers and field plot
informal leadership
kettleback
low-power research reactor
Many men, many minds.
mean tidal range
meet expenses
Methadone-Intermediate
middle-clicked
mousings
Naporoto
nastia
nepotal
ocular phthisis
Onosma gmelinii
paracephalic acephalus
peppermill
perihelium
Phaeococcus
phototherapy
physical-image file
prerepairing inspection
propositive
protooncogenes
pseudotachylites
rashly
rate of load up
Rehling
roughback ray
ruthenium hydrochloride
schulmen
self sealing fuel tank
selfcontradictory
sell your ass
shield facility
solar plasma flux
solid cystic hydradenoma
sound-absorption coefficient
specific area
spherical harmonics
squaretail
stachydrine
succinea
television literacy
Tongxiao Township
toto coelo
tramman
undertaking of construction
undiversifiable risk
V-suffix chain
vacuum filtering solid control unit
Vaour
widely grown
written account
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