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
afterglow period
anesthesia of anterior palatine nerve
antiferroquadrupole
antigoldstinos
antithetic variates method
apread factor table
as black as night
asymmerical bedding
at one point
Bamba, Mt.
bearingless rotor
blanking force
block signal interlocking
bobfly
boorstein
brutalises
central processor model
cigarette case
clubbability
coherently diffracting domains
combined surfacing-thicknessing planer
copernicia australiss
cryptolestes ferrugineus (stephens)
current balance relay
deferred rate
derograte
dexamethasone acetate
dibromogermane
Dunois
e-nf
earth boring auger
efficable
ever-evolving
excessive vegetative growth
faired contour balance
feeder reactor
fetid bugbane
field original map
fippenny bits
flashover time characteristic
Fourier spectroscopy
galactogogue action
glucosidoprotein
gothert similarity rule
gravitational shift
high flashing point
Il'ichëvka
Infrared Space Observatory
infraspecific
intertubercular line
Jungu
Kebir, Nahr al
leakage water system
leopardbane
liaison aviation
lifter motion cam shaft
luthos lazuli
magnetron amplifier
Maitland, Frederic William
malott
man-machine state
manganese(ii) chloride
max mullers
maximum continuous service rating
methyl phenyl sulfide
Model T Ford
multi-purpose signal generator
myroxylons
negative symptom
non-damage fault
over-consolidated soil
overscrupulosity
patient-centreds
peltigera leucophlebia
penalty interest rate
peysan
phenanthridines
phosphor material
quasi-differentiable
racing trim
rake sth out
Ramses X
rapunzel
reformatist
roundheaded apple tree borer
sales statistics
sleeve joint
structural limits
suggested price
sulphites
teratogenic action
thin film composite structure
three-way support
timber cargo regulation
tolerance of set pressure
triactine
ukcea (united kingdom central electricity authority)
Usmān Kot
weak discreteness
wedge belt
wilkins