时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2010年


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 The Prime Minister Julia Gillard will tour Queensland's flood-affected areas today. About 4,000 people have now left their homes to escape the floods. In Emerald, more than 700 people spent the night in evacuation centres, waiting for the Nogoa River to rise. All 130 residents of Condamine west of Brisbane have been airlifted to safety and large parts of the city of Bundaberg remain submerged.


 
Summer has finally arrived in Southern Australia. Fire authorities are on alert as temperatures top 40 degrees across South Australia and Victoria. Catastrophic fire warnings are in force in six regions in South Australia. There are also total fire bans across much of Victoria.
 
A woman has died when her car crashed into a bridge in Melbourne. It brings the national road toll 1 to 12. Six people have died in Victoria and three in New South Wales. There've been no fatalities 2 in Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania or the ACT.
 
Israel's former President Moshe Katsav has been convicted of raping 3 an employee in 1998. He's also been found guilty of indecency and sexual harassment 4 involving two other women. Katsav was president for seven years. He now faces up to eight years in jail. 

1 toll
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
2 fatalities
n.恶性事故( fatality的名词复数 );死亡;致命性;命运
  • Several people were injured, but there were no fatalities. 有几个人受伤,但没有人死亡。
  • The accident resulted in fatalities. 那宗意外道致多人死亡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 raping
v.以暴力夺取,强夺( rape的现在分词 );强奸
  • In response, Charles VI sent a punitive expedition to Brittany, raping and killing the populace. 作为报复,查理六世派军讨伐布列塔尼,奸淫杀戮平民。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The conquerors marched on, burning, killing, raping and plundering as they went. 征服者所到之处烧杀奸掠,无所不做。 来自互联网
4 harassment
n.骚扰,扰乱,烦恼,烦乱
  • She often got telephone harassment at night these days.这些天她经常在夜晚受到电话骚扰。
  • The company prohibits any form of harassment.公司禁止任何形式的骚扰行为。
学英语单词
accessibleness
Ainsliaea
air-cooled type
algophobic
allopolyploid speciation
Anderlues
anti-siphon trap
architectural characteristics
ascochyta pisi libert
at this point in time
Babelian
banjo mandolins
Bedias
bien-pensants
bleeding pressure of roots
Bolboschoenus
boogie board
brouhahas
Burynshyk
busting it
casiano
Chiromo
chordacentra
cloquet r.
coarse moduli space
community relations
concrete setting
conidial stage
containment boundary material
croyce
damping transformer
Darzen's reaction
Debt is the worst poverty.
DEN-1
digitally controlled local oscillator
dihalides
external losses
F7
fibromyomata
film store
first aid kits
floating terminal
foul air pipe
full bar
gikiyami
global extent
glow-discharge voltage regulator tube
Hatfield Broad Oak
hemiblocks
high voltage connection
household refrigerator
immotilities
in-house magazine
iron spike
isotopic hydrology
large transport airplane
latinamerica
laundermat
Lemoine hexagons
lower beacon light
mentioned
micro-alloyed steel
morinamide
moving-image camera picture
my uncle on my mother's side
narrow energy gap material
no-colours
nonketotic hyperosmolar coma
O,O-diethylthiophosphoryl chloride
omphalomesenteric duct anomalies
outstanding and trading margin
Pacific Seaboard
palaeoclimatologic
pediferous segment
pityrogrammas
pressure test,strength test
Progressive Era
pseudopores
quinoquinazolone
ringing waveform
roof-angle prism
sbeitla
sheet slab
signal multiplexing unit
slob up
spike pullout fore
sq.m.
srikrishna
suink
swizs
thin film solid-state image sensor
Tricholoma flavovirens
trigger-gate
tunnel location
twin machine gun
unofficiality
valerian families
verbal fluency
verifying
wet rag
wherenot
Xanthoperol