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 United Nations says it held secret talks with the Taliban to discuss a truce 1. The revelation was made as Foreign Ministers gathered in London to map out a plan to hand security back over to Afghan forces. They've also unveiled a 550-million-dollar fund, aimed at luring 2 Taliban fighters into education, training in employment programs.


There's a new twist in the search for the missing millionaire Herman Rockefeller. Police raided a property in Melbourne's west overnight. They're not saying whether the case has been treated as a murder investigation 3.


Toyota is extending its recall of vehicles that may have a dangerously faulty accelerator. Seven-five thousand drivers in China are now being told to send their vehicles back to the carmaker because of a sticky accelerator that may cause cars to speed out of control. Similar recalls have already been issued in Europe and the US.


It seems taxpayers 4 are spending more on public hospitals but the quality of care hasn't improved much. A new report on government services shows spending on public hospitals increased six percent to 29 billion dollars in the 2007 financial year. Sixty-nine percent of emergency patients were seen within the recommended time.


And the American author J.D. Salinger has died. The acclaimed 5 writer who wrote “Catcher in the Rye” was 91.


We'll have more news later.



1 truce
n.休战,(争执,烦恼等的)缓和;v.以停战结束
  • The hot weather gave the old man a truce from rheumatism.热天使这位老人暂时免受风湿病之苦。
  • She had thought of flying out to breathe the fresh air in an interval of truce.她想跑出去呼吸一下休战期间的新鲜空气。
2 luring
吸引,引诱(lure的现在分词形式)
  • Cheese is very good for luring a mouse into a trap. 奶酪是引诱老鼠上钩的极好的东西。
  • Her training warned her of peril and of the wrong, subtle, mysterious, luring. 她的教养警告她:有危险,要出错儿,这是微妙、神秘而又诱人的。
3 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
4 taxpayers
纳税人,纳税的机构( taxpayer的名词复数 )
  • Finance for education comes from taxpayers. 教育经费来自纳税人。
  • She was declaiming against the waste of the taxpayers' money. 她慷慨陈词猛烈抨击对纳税人金钱的浪费。
5 acclaimed
adj.受人欢迎的
  • They acclaimed him as the best writer of the year. 他们称赞他为当年的最佳作者。
  • Confuscius is acclaimed as a great thinker. 孔子被赞誉为伟大的思想家。
学英语单词
air route surveillance radar (arsr)
Alepocephaloidel
auditing from trail balance
auditor's study and evaluation of internal control
autogyroes
automatic flow-control
azoted
Bagana, Mt.
blown his top
boiled lawn
bombazin
breast cylinder
carboxyamide
climate controlled
corn southern leaf blight
counterreceptor
cumulative quantity discounts
deceleration phase
deep-fetched
delcap
diagnostic expert system
dl-pinene
doksa
duchy
e-voter
eelier
extreme term of proportion
fiber staining
fire sprinkler
french baguette
front hook
geographical linguistics
get your own way
group-bank lamp
Hanamā'ulu
haploxerolls
Helderberg formation
historical act
hydrodynamic drive rig
image converter streak camera
immersion ratio of propeller
in the course of cultivation
input shorted feed back admittance
irwell
isourea
late-time
learning resource exchange program
Left-censored
lycopenemia
makes waves
mercurialine
methanolates
Michelia macclurei
micronizers
monomerize
mortido
Niederwalgern
nondispensable
nutrition science
overconsumers
Pacatol
per hectare
physiological plant anatomy
phytases
potentional height
pre-emptive discipline
pressure condenser microphone
priori uncertainty
punctatesubstance
Radio-Society of Great Britain
rained-on
Rammstedt's operation
rasp cut
respectant
ritenutos
riverward
robotripping
roller rink
rsums
session profile
Shchigry
slate clay
sloppiness
sound measuring device
spinups
there and then
to cut staff
tripropyl amine
turbo electric propulsion
typical curve
ultimate storage facility
universal-joint spindle
Ust'-Urgal
velours simple
vertical off-normal spring
Virgilia oroboides
waitress mom
wheel speed regulating change box
willdenowii
Winnenden
writ of election
zone of favourable catch