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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More than 80 asylum 1 seekers have spent their first night at a mining camp in the remote Western Australian town of Leonora. The families from Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Iran were flown to the town yesterday from the overcrowd detention 2 centre at Christmas Island. The Government says the crew could stay there for up to six months.


 


Queensland and New South Wales will hand down the state budgets today. The New South Wales Government is trying to win back disillusioned 3 voters with tax cuts for businesses, record health spending as well as benefits for families. The Queensland Treasurer 4 Andrew Fraser says he will hand down a "workmanlike" budget to keep people in jobs amid a fragile economic recovery.


 


A court in the Indian city of Bhopal has sentenced eight men to two years jail for one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Poisonous gas leaked from a pesticide 5 factory in Bhopal in 1984, killing 6 thousands of people. Campaigners say the verdict was too little and too late.


 


Ten NATO soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan in the deadliest day in months for coalition 7 troops. Taliban insurgents 8 are wrapping up attacks, ahead of a major operation in the southern Taliban stronghold of Kandahar. In the worst of several attacks, five US soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb blast in eastern Afghanistan.


 


And the former hostess of the TV game show Wheel of Fortune, Adriana Xenides has been remembered as a legend. The 54-year-old died in a Sydney hospital yesterday, suffering from a ruptured 9 intestine 10.



1 asylum
n.避难所,庇护所,避难
  • The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
  • Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。
2 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。
3 disillusioned
a.不再抱幻想的,大失所望的,幻想破灭的
  • I soon became disillusioned with the job. 我不久便对这个工作不再抱幻想了。
  • Many people who are disillusioned in reality assimilate life to a dream. 许多对现实失望的人把人生比作一场梦。
4 treasurer
n.司库,财务主管
  • Mr. Smith was succeeded by Mrs.Jones as treasurer.琼斯夫人继史密斯先生任会计。
  • The treasurer was arrested for trying to manipulate the company's financial records.财务主管由于试图窜改公司财政帐目而被拘留。
5 pesticide
n.杀虫剂,农药
  • The pesticide was spread over the vegetable plot.菜田里撒上了农药。
  • This pesticide is diluted with water and applied directly to the fields.这种杀虫剂用水稀释后直接施用在田里。
6 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
7 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。
8 insurgents
n.起义,暴动,造反( insurgent的名词复数 )
  • The regular troops of Baden joined the insurgents. 巴登的正规军参加到起义军方面来了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Against the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents, these problems are manageable. 要对付塔利班与伊拉克叛乱分子,这些问题还是可以把握住的。 来自互联网
9 ruptured
v.(使)破裂( rupture的过去式和过去分词 );(使体内组织等)断裂;使(友好关系)破裂;使绝交
  • They reported that the pipeline had ruptured. 他们报告说管道已经破裂了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The wall through Berlin was finally ruptured, prefiguring the reunification of Germany. 柏林墙终于倒塌了,预示着德国的重新统一。 来自辞典例句
10 intestine
adj.内部的;国内的;n.肠
  • This vitamin is absorbed through the walls of the small intestine.这种维生素通过小肠壁被吸收。
  • The service productivity is the function,including external efficiency,intestine efficiency and capacity efficiency.服务业的生产率是一个包含有外部效率、内部效率和能力效率的函数。
学英语单词
a-peak
Abactrim
absolute judg(e)ment
alkaline excess
angels camp
angular section
atypical case
balance accounts with someone
bayji (baiji)
Bevin Boys
blacksmithery
care assistants
chanonry
chemotax
chop wood
click on an icon
clutchy
cohomology of projective spaces
colliflowers
condensable sea anchor
continental shelf edge
controlled exchange system
cribella
cyberland
cycloquine
deaerator effluent
deflorating
degree of mechanization of cargo handling
diphenyl sulfide
double frame hammer
double wall knot
drop-crotches
Eastleach
Einstein model
erasable optical disc
ethadione
expense of production
Fargesia fractiflexa
first world war
fixed asset accounting
flogging trauma
flying-spot pattern generator
fractional percolation
frequency sweep generator
gasped
geo-data assimilation
glazed roof
Goto-retto
grab bucket dredger
grain screen
gunthers
import documents
inactive trust
insile
inter-company balance
inworked
is there a smaller size
isopicropodophyllone
kopsaporine
kowe
Krivyachka
laser transformation hardening
launder it
leprechaunology
limicolas
Llanfynydd
maieutical
Mesopotamo
misyokes
moonshiny
Nader's raider
non-vanishing matrix element
paradisum
Pascidaber
pascuala
radiating dikes
ravalomanana
rependant
research microscope
roume
safety terminal box
santoshes
seasonal ring
short run punch
snow protection facility
soak temperature range
stern line
subject of acupuncture and moxibustion technique
Sumedine
toll and regular connector
towers of pharos
transverse flow cooling tower
trim strip
triple somersault
unerasable
universal adult franchise
variable-elevation beam
vellicle
weak contact
Welsh literature
wire rope fall
wmas