时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2011年


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 Labor support has hit a 15-year low with almost two thirds of voters opposed to a carbon tax. The tax is also on the nose with business. The Food and Grocery Council has joined other industries in signing a letter to the Prime Minister, asking for assurances that they won’t be disadvantaged. 


 
A British man who has spent most of his life in Australia will be deported 1 to the UK today. Clifford Tucker has a string of criminal offences and the Government says he doesn’t meet the character test. Mr Tucker lost a Federal Court appeal against the deportation 2 back in February. 
 
Convicted drugs trafficker Schapelle Corby could be released from a Bali jail immediately if her bid for clemency 3 succeeds. The Indonesian Supreme 4 Court has recommended the Australian sentence be cut to 10 years, but that has to be accepted by Indonesia’s president. It’s Corby’s last avenue of appeal. 
 
The worst tornadoes 5 in 30 years have swept across America’s southern states, killing 6 more than 40 people. Houses have been flattened 7, power cut and cars strewn across highways. North Carolina is the latest to feel the fury. Sixty-two tornadoes have left a trail of destruction across that state.
 
And more than 40,000 people have packed St Peter’s Square in Rome to mark the beginning of the week-long Easter celebrations. During his Palm Sunday mass, Pope Benedict told worshippers that technology could not replace God.

1 deported
v.将…驱逐出境( deport的过去式和过去分词 );举止
  • They stripped me of my citizenship and deported me. 他们剥夺我的公民资格,将我驱逐出境。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The convicts were deported to a deserted island. 罪犯们被流放到一个荒岛。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 deportation
n.驱逐,放逐
  • The government issued a deportation order against the four men.政府发出了对那4名男子的驱逐令。
  • Years ago convicted criminals in England could face deportation to Australia.很多年以前,英国已定罪的犯人可能被驱逐到澳大利亚。
3 clemency
n.温和,仁慈,宽厚
  • The question of clemency would rest with the King.宽大处理问题,将由国王决定。
  • They addressed to the governor a plea for clemency.他们向州长提交了宽刑的申辨书。
4 supreme
adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的
  • It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
5 tornadoes
n.龙卷风,旋风( tornado的名词复数 )
  • Tornadoes, severe earthquakes, and plagues create wide spread havoc. 龙卷风、大地震和瘟疫成普遍的毁坏。 来自互联网
  • Meteorologists are at odds over the working of tornadoes. 气象学者对龙卷风的运动方式看法不一。 来自互联网
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 flattened
[医](水)平扁的,弄平的
  • She flattened her nose and lips against the window. 她把鼻子和嘴唇紧贴着窗户。
  • I flattened myself against the wall to let them pass. 我身体紧靠着墙让他们通过。
学英语单词
acquired hemolytic icteroanemia
acute bulbar polioencephalitis
ad captandum (vulgus)
adjoint technique
anathematize
arnold schoenbergs
artiste
Asagidaloren
asbestonite
backstage deal
bacterioscopically
battle-readiness
BBSer
biodevices
bottom round
bridge camber
buirdliest
Camanongue
cash position
commissure of bulbs
cricketress
curia romana
density stratification
descensuss
discharge pit
disk-type rectifier
dyer's-weed
earn (european academic research network)
electro-mechanical screw time release
endocrine balance
fall bud
forest type map
galivants
Gamochaeta
high temperature annealing
horizontal layer method
Hypoosmolality
ingrudge
interference colour
jumble-beads
krey's method
laser light scattering
laundry charge
law of chemical equilibrium
like-for-like sales
linseed oil soap
loaders
long lived
look forward
loose-tight
marginal aggregate
Merprane
michelsons
model(l)ing event
Myllykoski
Ndouo
neuronal ischemic change
non relation
numerous family
on the part of one
ophiothrix savignyi
ornithophobia
PBMV
Pfannenstiel's incision
pilot rating
popcorn hoes
prot-
questrom
radioactivities
Raphanus raphanistrum
releasing device
renibus penaei
ressala
rivet lines
Rodionovka
rubert
search-spaces
Second Adventist
shell shocked, shell-shocked
stop-start switch
submodality
swk
terrain
testimoner
tetra-acetic
tidal pool
to let it go
topological linear algebra
transmutationisms
tubular thrust chamber
tulce
unbirth
unemployed shipping
valverdes
varicella-zoster virus
Verdiana
virgo intacta
wage including tax
waulking
wavelength modulation spectroscopy
weightlessness physiological effects