时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2012年


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 A massive storm is bearing down on the US east coast. New York is going into lockdown. It's shutting the public transport system and schools and almost 400,000 people have been told to evacuate 1. Schools in Washington are also being closed. The hurricane has already killed dozens of people in the Carribean.


 
 
 
And Hawaii has escaped damage after being hit by a small tsunami 2. A magnitude 7.7 earthquake off the coast of Canada triggered a tsunami warning. More than 100,000 people fled to higher ground.
 
 
 
Business groups have welcomed the government's Asian Century White Paper, but warned more needs to be done to improve Australia's competitiveness. The measures include more Australian children learning an Asian language. Schools' Minister Peter Garrett has told News Breakfast he will be working with states to find more funding.
 
 
 
Labor's primary vote is up 3 points to 36 per cent in the latest Newspoll. Support for the Coalition 3 has fallen to 41 per cent. Both parties are locked at 50 per cent of the two-party-preferred vote. Julia Gillard has maintained her lead over Tony Abbott as preferred prime minister.
 
 
 
The inquest into the death of a three-month-old baby will begin in Sydney this morning. Elijah Slavkovic died in April, 2009 after contracting meningitis during family holiday. He was taken to 5 different hospitals before dying 6 weeks later in Melbourne's Royal Children('s)  Hospital.

1 evacuate
v.遣送;搬空;抽出;排泄;大(小)便
  • We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵!
  • They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
2 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。
3 coalition
n.结合体,同盟,结合,联合
  • The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
  • Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
学英语单词
a.c.k.
abore
accumulation index of pollutants
acetylsulfalene
alamedas
alignment clause
amerosporous
amphibious air-cushion
Anemopsis
ape-man
arams
attaint
attention focusing
balanced error
binomy
boiler with wet bottom furnace
branch control unit
breakwater wall
brookville
Burhar
calcium pectate
caseln
Chloranthus angustifolius
chutes and ladders
common amplifier circuit
core capabilities
country march
Datura tatula
defrosting machine
detrusive
digerminal implantation
digitate-trifoliate
direct services
dual feasible solution
Duchenne's attitude
easy credit policy
electric remote test tachometer
electronic welding-time control
envelopes
epigenetic carcinogens
ethylhexoic acid
evident
experimental material
failure rare
femto-lumen
fibre-optics probe
flexible hours
flow structured programming
Galip
gas-collecting duct
gauss-doolittle method
Giulio Natta
glutamicpyruvic transaminase
Grauman's Chinese Theater
GTF angle
hinge fitting
hot cathode high-frequency sputtering
hull sunk
indian blackwoods
initial life-stage
Karpylivka
Kefalos
legh(a)emoglobin
lesaux
leukocyle migration theory
light vessel
link to the left
Luziania
lychnise
microcrystalline film
My Le
necklined
nonarrival
occipital angle
out-eat
overspeed trip pin
oxapium iodide
Pariaguan
plastic material from coal
plombage
put out of the reverence of something
put the boot on the wrong foot
rise and set of celestial body
rockcress
Russianization
scoracious
selenoproteins
sequential light amplifier
sharing of losses
sheet metal design
sodium tetrafluoroborate
sound-proofing lagging
stereynge
teleinstructional
thermaesthesiometer
tractor group
Trifolium campestre
Téméra
unblanking
unpuddled
water-borne
weak-current cable