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 Federal Opposition 1 is demanding the government inspect all homes insulated under its failed scheme. More than one million homes have been insulated under the program. But the government's paying for just 200,000 of them to be checked. The Opposition's warning home owners could be left without insurance if the work isn't checked.


The Thai prime minister says he won't cave in to demands that he dissolve Parliament. Tens of thousands of Red Shirts are calling for the government to step down and hold fresh elections.


A top US official has accused Israel of insulting the White House over plans to build 1,600 new homes in East Jerusalem. President Obama's Chief Advisor 2 David Axelrod has slammed Israel for hampering 3 Mid-East peace talks by making the announcement during Vice 4 President Joe Biden's tour of the region.


The weather bureau is closely monitoring Cyclone 5 Ului which passed the south of the Solomon Islands last night. The storm has been downgraded to a Category-4 system and isn't expected to hit the Queensland coast until late this week.


And Australian cricket vice-captain Michael Clarke is on his way back to New Zealand after a week of media scrutiny 6 over his breakup with Lara Bingle. He is heading to Wellington with other members of the Australian squad 7 for the two-Test series against New Zealand.


 


More news later.



1 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。
2 advisor
n.顾问,指导老师,劝告者
  • They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
  • The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。
3 hampering
妨碍,束缚,限制( hamper的现在分词 )
  • So fraud on cows and development aid is seriously hampering growth. 因此在牛问题上和发展补助上的诈骗严重阻碍了发展。
  • Short-termism, carbon-trading, disputing the science-are hampering the implementation of direct economically-led objectives. 短效主义,出售二氧化碳,进行科学辩论,这些都不利于实现以经济为主导的直接目标。
4 vice
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
5 cyclone
n.旋风,龙卷风
  • An exceptionally violent cyclone hit the town last night.昨晚异常猛烈的旋风吹袭了那个小镇。
  • The cyclone brought misery to thousands of people.旋风给成千上万的人带来苦难。
6 scrutiny
n.详细检查,仔细观察
  • His work looks all right,but it will not bear scrutiny.他的工作似乎很好,但是经不起仔细检查。
  • Few wives in their forties can weather such a scrutiny.很少年过四十的妻子经得起这么仔细的观察。
7 squad
n.班,小队,小团体;vt.把…编成班或小组
  • The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
  • A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。
学英语单词
abnormal operation
adipositas
allolysogenic
America Online Instant Messenger
asemantic
audio-frequency oscillators
balancing allowance
basic behavioral repertories (bbrs)
Battenheim
be presumed
belittlest
benzidine sulfate
blast furnace gas engine
blocking gear
boycock
builtins
calcarea chlorata
casing repair
chlorpromazine
clay grouting
clergess
colour magnification error
community action program
confluent cultivation
Crown Vic
cybology
delatinite (delatynite)
dens caninus
detachable magazine
disability payments
do you mean
economic doldrums
embolus
enstates
expanding lattice clay
falf-power point
fibro-palagonite
foam monitor
fob stowed
focal surface of congruence
fromwards
general mills
Granthi
heating soil
heterostemon
hickory oil
highlight text
Hydroxycholestanes
if possible
instalment trade
investor profile
Japano-
Jasrāsar
kazar
laser measuring system
late-flowering
lazare
luchensin
lymphonodi anoreictales
macule
miliaria alba
multitheatre
name-tapes
Neo-Darwinism
omnias
one-out-of-four selecting circuit
opera comique
organic base
oscillator priming
packing and commodity protection
political society
post production switcher
preppier
production manifold
PSCM
qassams
ramembrance
receiving gage
regular Cartan space
restaurate
riverside pavilion
rizvan
rum buds
seaborne infrared target
showhomes
South Fabius R.
sprayhoods
steam-turbine-electric drive
system support function
Taishan
talked over
tocopherol(s)
tracheocele
transaction-based
tricks
two hundred and thirteen
two-stage sampling
unit force
upward gradient
vacuum-controlled system
vernicia fordii (hemsl.)airy-shaw?
writer-in-residence