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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World leaders have agreed to secure all vulnerable nuclear materials around the globe within four years in a bid to thwart 1 any terrorists. Delegates from 47 nations meeting at the nuclear security summit in Washington, say they’ll share information and skills in forensics and law enforcement to stop illicit 2 nuclear trafficking. On the sidelines of the summit, the US and Russia have agreed to a deal to eliminate excess weapons-grade plutonium from their defense 3 programs.


 


Environment inspectors 4 are heading to an island of central Queensland where oil has washed ashore 5. Authorities suspect the oil is from the Chinese coal carrier, the Shen Neng 1 which ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef on Easter Saturday.


 


Also in the news, immigration officials on Christmas Island are getting ready for the arrival of another 100 asylum 6 seekers. The island's detention 7 facilities are already stretched beyond capacity. And the island’s also been inundated 8 with the flood of extra immigration and police officers.


 


Long queues have formed at Poland's presidential palace, where people are paying their respects to the late President and First Lady who died in a plane crash last weekend.


 


And Britain's Tories have launched their election manifesto 9, promising 10 to cut bureaucracy and hand back power to the people.



1 thwart
v.阻挠,妨碍,反对;adj.横(断的)
  • We must thwart his malevolent schemes.我们决不能让他的恶毒阴谋得逞。
  • I don't think that will thwart our purposes.我认为那不会使我们的目的受到挫折。
2 illicit
adj.非法的,禁止的,不正当的
  • He had an illicit association with Jane.他和简曾有过不正当关系。
  • Seizures of illicit drugs have increased by 30% this year.今年违禁药品的扣押增长了30%。
3 defense
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
4 inspectors
n.检查员( inspector的名词复数 );(英国公共汽车或火车上的)查票员;(警察)巡官;检阅官
  • They got into the school in the guise of inspectors. 他们假装成视察员进了学校。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Inspectors checked that there was adequate ventilation. 检查员已检查过,通风良好。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 ashore
adv.在(向)岸上,上岸
  • The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前,孩子们就上岸了。
  • He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。
6 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。
7 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。
8 inundated
v.淹没( inundate的过去式和过去分词 );(洪水般地)涌来;充满;给予或交予(太多事物)使难以应付
  • We have been inundated with offers of help. 主动援助多得使我们应接不暇。
  • We have been inundated with every bit of information imaginable. 凡是想得到的各种各样的信息潮水般地向我们涌来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
9 manifesto
n.宣言,声明
  • I was involved in the preparation of Labour's manifesto.我参与了工党宣言的起草工作。
  • His manifesto promised measures to protect them.他在宣言里保证要为他们采取保护措施。
10 promising
adj.有希望的,有前途的
  • The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
  • We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。
学英语单词
Abrahamitical
adopteth
adventurists
angular distortion
automatic oil switch
basilar space
bread board set up
brittanys
bronchopneumonic tuberculosis
browzy
buck tooth
bum from
cataphorite
charged particle energy spectrometer
chazanim
Chroococcus
clasp retention
clush-clash
company-based
cooperative farming
davidsonite (beryl)
delayed ovulation
deprivation strain
dessert plate
diktonius
dilatant fluid
domain name resolution
droit de chapelle
droites
edge-oriented grammar
EHEC
entrepot market
fadda
fair mindedness
Finlandise
flocked fabric
Forest River
Fredet-Ramstedt operation
funnel plution
garbage in
Giovanna
Glandubolin
gnostically
gosha
grape juices
hara-kiri
high-pressure ion exchange column
hybrid power source
illegal blank field
international trade charter
Key Stage
law-ideology
linear non-threshold
lined short gown
list of maritime documents
lues nervosa
marmolet
mechanics of management
medicine (medical science)
mildewcidal
Minh Quang
model generator
monophenol oxidase
Montesarchio
nodalise
oblates
on tiptoe of expectation
outersurface of wood
overplumped
Porteňo, R.
postbleaching
poutful
radiator bottom tank
rathite
regionale
resource identification
response mechanism
Rhododendron cephalanthum
risk society
rolon
rosebud
rudbeckias
sales response
securities commission
shaker stitch
shangqiu
sociospaces
spirit of ether compound
storm warning signal
strawberry-blond
sup
super-party
Switzerland County
tafidex
terminative case
the gift of the gab
triple-dip recession
tulipan
unilateral anesthesia
up and under
wet raising
witieng