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 Prime Minister of Haiti says the number of people killed in yesterday's powerful earthquake could be well over 100,000. The 7.0-magnitude quake was the largest to hit the impoverished 1 nation in 200 years. 


Homes, hospitals and schools were reduced to rubble 2. As the international aid effort mobilizes, the Federal Government is trying to locate a small number of Australians believed to be in the vicinity. The Department of Foreign Affairs says 10 Australians in the affected 3 zone are safe. But it won't say how many others are still missing.


 The United Nations mission to Haiti was also badly hit. The head of the peacekeeping effort is still missing and soldiers from several countries are among the casualties.


 “Many of our UN colleagues on the ground, including my special representative in Haiti, Mr. Annabi and his deputy, Mr. La Costa, are as yet unaccounted for. The UN Headquarters at the Christopher Hotel collapsed 4 in the quake. Many people are still trapped inside.” 


And there's been a modest rebound 5 on Wall Street with financial stocks leading the gains.


 I'll be back with more news later. Bye for now.



1 impoverished
adj.穷困的,无力的,用尽了的v.使(某人)贫穷( impoverish的过去式和过去分词 );使(某物)贫瘠或恶化
  • the impoverished areas of the city 这个城市的贫民区
  • They were impoverished by a prolonged spell of unemployment. 他们因长期失业而一贫如洗。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 rubble
n.(一堆)碎石,瓦砾
  • After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后,花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
  • After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
3 affected
adj.不自然的,假装的
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
4 collapsed
adj.倒塌的
  • Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
  • The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
5 rebound
v.弹回;n.弹回,跳回
  • The vibrations accompanying the rebound are the earth quake.伴随这种回弹的振动就是地震。
  • Our evil example will rebound upon ourselves.我们的坏榜样会回到我们自己头上的。
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a-plenty
Al Ghurdaqah
Alberola
along a curve differentiation
amide
ammonia fixation
anchor chain diameter
antiknock component
automatic cleaning
Avignonet-Lauragais
back-up diskette
bunoes
burn of tendon
centertap reactor
chef's
clearing for non-member
company-levels
cone-bottom gas-dispersion agitator
confited
controlled atmosphere arc welding
criterion of convergence
cruising test
dambio (chad)
designed flood hydrograph
discharging potential difference
edicule
effects of ionosphere
emission point
enantiomorphous crystal
errors of commission
experimental techniques
false harmonics
flat calm
fractionalises
full-function database
goggless
goldish
ground-based electro-optical deep space surveillance
halopolymer
hard(-shell) crab
Hohenhausen
house-price
Humus-layer
huntercombes
icicles
in'guina
international private leased circuit
itch to do
kheperas
laharpe
lankened
latitation
lens facies
lent fever
limiting viscosity (number)
Linea arcuata
lipochondrodystrophy
marges
medium fat content fish
metal-oxide-semiconductor device
money-men
musical time signature
natrium sulfuricum effervescens
nonviolent
oligoclase
on process
Penfield's method staining
picture i-f circuit
plane-sections flow line
polyvalent sera
positive staining
potassium muriates
quad pairing
rebuffal
rectified photo mosaic
Red River Settlement
rights to participation
santalum albums
sarabias
sheep-shearing
simple effect
sludginess
stone-age
Streptamin
superficies interna
tammet
temporospatial
the New Testament
thoracalgia
thurgood
transistor flip-flop
trophczoite
tuo
under-collector
upshooting
uranotaenia (pseudoficalbia) spiculosa
urban thesaurus
VC switch
vibration state
Virchow's angle
wherried
zooful