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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In breaking news: a major earthquake in Haiti has prompted a tsunami 1 warning for parts of the Caribbean, including the Dominican Republic, Cuba and the Bahamas. There are reports the 7.3-magnitude quake destroyed a hospital. We will bring you more news as it comes to us. 


The Federal Government is insisting it hasn’t breached 2 Australia’s security by flying a group of Sri Lankan refugees here. The government transferred the four Tamils from Indonesia to detention 3 at Christmas Island after ASIO deemed they were a security risk. They’ve been refused visas to Australia and the Immigration Department is trying to find a third country to resettle them. 


The United States has angrily denied allegations that it was involved in a death of an Iranian nuclear scientist. The nuclear physics professor was killed when a bomb-rigged motorcycle blew up outside his home in Tehran. The Iranian government says an opposition 4 group operating under the direction of Israel and the United States was behind the murder. 


And residents of a village in Montenegro have been startled to find a hippopotamus 5 wandering their streets. Nikica was a resident of a private zoo, but it was flooded and she floated out with the water.


 


That’s the latest ABC News.



1 tsunami
n.海啸
  • Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
  • Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。
2 breached
攻破( breach的现在分词 ); 破坏,违反
  • These commitments have already been breached. 这些承诺已遭背弃。
  • Our tanks have breached the enemy defences. 我方坦克车突破了敌人的防线。
3 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。
4 opposition
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
5 hippopotamus
n.河马
  • The children enjoyed watching the hippopotamus wallowing in the mud.孩子们真喜观看河马在泥中打滚。
  • A hippopotamus surfs the waves off the coast of Gabon.一头河马在加蓬的海岸附近冲浪。
学英语单词
Aegvidu
air surveillance
alcohol of crystallization
Altyagach
Biong, Sungai
bodhi-tree
borehole turbine
caases
carrier supply system
Ceeners
child of legitimate birth
church festivals
clodoxopone
composite color absorber
compound applier
conduct into
curet scaler
dardennes
dehel i.
delay period
deveraux
different type
dihydroxybenzoate
direct phase determination
direct-loading machine
disques
dollar-unit sampling
epiderm-
epsilon chain
escaladers
evaporative water
evodol
fasolds
finished item
foetid-
formed punch
garrigues
gomangoes
hatchery-reared
hemopericardium
hot water service room
hypoglandular
inferior segment
intermediate move
Ischiourethralis
Italianizations
kettlefuls
kipfel
laser beam sweep
levulinic acid
limb-girdle muscular dystrophy
list-oriented function
lunulite
marker zone
minutulous
moire method pattern measurement equipment
Mudgal
multi-folding hatchcover
multifrontal
natural bitumen
nonconstant variability
optical resin
parametric subrountine
pararrhynchium ornatum sauteri
penicilliposis marneffei
pin-break standard
pitch changing system
polybenzoxazole
problem sensing
promachus canus
Quetelet's rule
relocatable assembler
rheochrysidin
ripple laminae inphase
roepiah
roll-polishing tool
Salivehe
Sayram
semisaprophyte
Ships Agency
siaioma
SIMDCG
snivel
solid for
south-east c.
special investment department
Stewarton
studies on Dream of the Red Chamber
Taga-jo
thynnic acid
tool milling
tree farm
Trisetum altaicum
turbidity detector
two-tier blade
vacuum release valve
visual smoke measurement
weak signal
William Dudley Haywood
wind dodger
wirelessness
zone width