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 US President Barack Obama has taken responsibility for the foiled 1 Christmas Day plane bombing, saying the buck 2 stops with him. Security reviews into the attempted attack are now complete. Mr. Obama says the incident wasn't the fault of a single individual but a widespread system failure. He's ordered a range of improvements to strengthen security.




The Sea Shepherd's anti-whaling vessel 3, the Ady Gil has sunk in the southern ocean. It was badly damaged in a collision with a Japanese whaler and was being towed 4 when it sank early this morning. Meanwhile, government officials from Japan and New Zealand have met in Wellington to discuss who was responsible for the crash.




Police say a number of suspects remain in the murder of Sydney businessman Michael McGurk following a re-enactment of his death last night. Police recreated the moments in which the 45-year-old was gunned down outside his north shore home in September. The operation found it's most likely Mr. McGurk's attacker killed him with a handgun at a short range.




And today it's said to be the coldest so far in northern Europe. The conditions have left many people dead and another Eurostar train stranded 5 in the Channel Tunnel. Yesterday the average temperature in Britain was only two degrees warmer than the North Pole.




I'll be back with more updates later.


 



1 foiled
adj.有叶形装饰的v.挫败,使受挫折( foil的过去式和过去分词 )
  • We foiled his attempt to escape. 我们挫败了他逃跑的企图。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • They were foiled in their attempt. 他们的企图成了泡影。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
2 buck
n.雄鹿,雄兔;v.马离地跳跃
  • The boy bent curiously to the skeleton of the buck.这个男孩好奇地弯下身去看鹿的骸骨。
  • The female deer attracts the buck with high-pitched sounds.雌鹿以尖声吸引雄鹿。
3 vessel
n.船舶;容器,器皿;管,导管,血管
  • The vessel is fully loaded with cargo for Shanghai.这艘船满载货物驶往上海。
  • You should put the water into a vessel.你应该把水装入容器中。
4 towed
v.拖,拉,拽( tow的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Our car was towed away by the police. 我们的汽车被警察拖走了。
  • The tugboat towed the damaged ship into port. 拖船把坏了的船拖进港口。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
5 stranded
a.搁浅的,进退两难的
  • He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里, 身无分文,一筹莫展。
  • I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市,既没有钱,又没有朋友。
学英语单词
accessive
airlanes
allocyclic
antimonyls
Apgar Viginia
armour bolt
backbone type
break fresh ground
bufogenins
bug juice
burn combined with poisoning
business rules management
cardiovascular radiology
cerium(iv) silicide
Cherokee Strip
collinearly
common-base amplifier
constitutionists
cyclophorase system
datolites
dissolved oxygen and chlorine ion
Do you mind if
down stacker
drip tip
earth albedo
Edge Act Corporation
encephalauxe
experimental prototype
extra-pay
faunal component
feeding form
fixed-jib crane
Florideophyceae
foster-child
girl friends
Hanham
human resources management
improved basic allowance
impulse-type relay
indoor apparatus
initial segment of axon
input/output connector
insulated ring
Kaiser Bill
limit indicator
line-fetch
linear shear apparatus
local disease
low side roller mill
mach speed
macro flowchart
macroautophagy
magnetohydrodynamic power generation
methenamine mandelate
moccasin foot
mozelle
Nincontoral
nitrobutandiol
non-sister strand
originous
pararhyme
peak clamping
pebibit
Pitt R.
poeticalness
printed circuit mother board
professional exposure
Pyromys
raddle pickup
Railroad use
random start
rarely occurred earthquake
re-swear
red-purple
Rubex
rutifolia
saldanha b.
Saray Burun
scene-stealer
second order theory
shaded in
signal amplitude
slumbering
spherifications
static ingot
sultines
table write
third cosmic velocity
tilt corrector
trial at nisi prius
triple witching
U-tube manometerU
Ulbster
uncairdly
undappled
Uniskop
warm box
woodentops
wurships
zancberg
zinc orthosilicate