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。
学英语单词
(potash)alum
American mucocutaneous leishmaniasis
anci-
aperture of a mirror
asphalt paint
bag of nails
beat around the bush
binationals
boiler structural steel
botros
bottom-entry control rod
burba
carthamus tinctoriuss
cells of Kulchitsky
chinup
chrism
Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China
combinatoric
compulsory self-incrimination
da capa
depict
disembosoming
domhoff
double-coat
dry ... eyes
earthed-cathode triode
engine underpan
eyewitnessed
Festuca sibirica
few and far between
flared handle
flowline loop
green index number
greycation
ground rope
gutturals
hanging node
horizontal split head
interimage effect
Jeremiah
jumped down someone's throat
just seventeen
Kakizaki
kurgan
major load change
marginal value productivity
matrix eigenvalue
mcluhans
microfossil
micropressure gauge
mihraban
millimeter wave antenna arrays
Mima mounds
mockbusters
multipoint communication service
mythopoeticizing
natrium salicylicum
no par share
noninvertible knot
nonmeasurability
nozzle clogging
Offshore Service Group
oxygen lancing
parabola approximation
parallel operation test
Plagiochilion
processor-camera
public hearings
quick-change gear
radical gastrectomy for cancer
Ramus communicans cum ramo auriculari nervi vagi
reduce production
retrieval environment
sale or return contract
salvage company
see ya later
self-searchings
semicoagulated
significant problem report
silicon-spiegel iron
sliding-friction
Sorcy-St-Martin
stimulated recombination radiation
subtaxon
super-gel ion-exchange resin
swear fealty
sympson
tabularise
teeny-bopperish
temperance hotel
thiolaction
to duplicate
transmews
triode-tetrode
tungsten arc welding
unrove
USI (unsolved safety issue)
vapour compression refrigeration cycle
wash cone
windpants
witness-tampering
yestreens