时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2013年


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 Parts of the Western Australia's Pilbara coast are in lockout as a severe tropical cyclone 1 closes in on the coast. A red alert has been issued for people in all near coastal 2 areas between Pardoo and Whim 3 Creek 4, including Port Hedland, south Hedland and Whim Creek. Cyclone Christine is expected to cross the coast tonight, somewhere between Karratha and Port Hedland. 


 
A day after at least 16 people were killed in a huge explosion at a train station, there's been another explosion in the Russian city of Volgograd. This time, a blast on a trolley 5 bus has killed 10 people. It's the latest in a series of bombings by separatist Islamist groups  ahead of the Winter Olympic Games in the Russian city of Sochi.
 
Retired 6 Formula One champion Michael Schumacher has undergone brain surgery and is in a critical condition after striking his head in a skiing accident in the French Alps. Doctors say the 44-year-old German was suffering serious brain trauma 7 on his arrival at hospital which required an immediate 8 operation.
 
And Victoire has been named the overall winner of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race. The yacht skippered by Darryl Hodgkinson crossed the line yesterday morning after two days and 19 hours at sea.
 

1 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。
2 coastal
adj.海岸的,沿海的,沿岸的
  • The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
  • This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。
3 whim
n.一时的兴致,突然的念头;奇想,幻想
  • I bought the encyclopedia on a whim.我凭一时的兴致买了这本百科全书。
  • He had a sudden whim to go sailing today.今天他突然想要去航海。
4 creek
n.小溪,小河,小湾
  • He sprang through the creek.他跳过小河。
  • People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴。
5 trolley
n.手推车,台车;无轨电车;有轨电车
  • The waiter had brought the sweet trolley.侍者已经推来了甜食推车。
  • In a library,books are moved on a trolley.在图书馆,书籍是放在台车上搬动的。
6 retired
adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的
  • The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
  • Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
7 trauma
n.外伤,精神创伤
  • Counselling is helping him work through this trauma.心理辅导正帮助他面对痛苦。
  • The phobia may have its root in a childhood trauma.恐惧症可能源于童年时期的创伤。
8 immediate
adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的
  • His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
  • We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
学英语单词
acer pseudoplatanuss
acidified food
angled knife
anisotropic shielding
annular slot antenna
Ansac
art libraries and collections
Aïn Azel
bird foods
Bolivian monetary unit
bonferroni confidence interval
brussels convention of 1924
caecums
cardfotomy
celebritization
centered additive process
Coalhurst
codakia punctata
Cold Hesledon
compound arbitrate
conaf
cone-socket pliers
conspicuousness
conversational operation mode
cran
daphnoline
dehooking
dependency hazard
Diocto
economic integration model
effusional skin-disease
Etak Navigator
fairpoint
filtration reabsorption theory
financial report
forsooks
Geese Bank
helpless
herpesvirus varicella
high-street
hook tooth
imperial filter
in-line procedures
incomplete survey
infrared bonding
isorefractive
judicial circuit
kernel theorem
kyriakos
lagochilos
law of international trade
leadoff
lidar light detection and ranging
Lophophorus
Mihir
multistable control
Myeloencephalopathy
Naiars
octahedral invariant
off-reserve
omrons
onetti
oocyst residuum
overcomplicates
pan-and-tilt
pelycography
Penang lawyer
philanthropic foundations
plagnol
pollen tube nucleus
put a curb upon
radiation demography
recoverability
residual finiteness
resistive reverse current
reverse turn limiter
riddlebread
roundness
scharping
schizomimetics
Seaview
shipped
shouldst
slit sound
storager
supecrtical nucleus
surface leveling
through-mortise
time on target (tot)
top-down numbering
touchup
trade creditors
transitrol
turning gear on
ubundu (ponthierville)
unequal cavity acceleration
unified microwave system
uremias
Veikkola
weak stability
xeranses
Yandja