时间:2019-01-19 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2014年


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 The search resumes for the two snowboarders this morning missing in Victoria Alps. Police hold great fears of Martin Bucklin and Daniel Kirk who haven't been heard from since Thursday. Their families say they are devastated 1 by their disappearance 2. Yesterday a group of workers found the pair's tent with sleeping bags and other equipment inside. 


 
Olympics swimmer Ian Thorpe says he lied about his sexuality because he was worried about the public reaction. The five-time Olympic champion has revealed he is gay during a TV interview with the British broadcaster Michael Parkinson. Thorpe says he still hurts when he was first questioned about his sexuality when he was just sixteen. 
 
If I wasn't asked, I feel as though, I would have been much younger, when I came out and being comfortable about this, yes. 
 
Ian Thorpe there. Thousands of Palestinians are fleeing northern parts of Gaza after Israel warned that it was targeting the area. Israeli air strikes and Hamas rocket attacks have continued unabated now for six days. The Palestinian death toll 3 has now reached almost one hundred and seventy. 
 
And the Federal Government hopes to have the carbon tax go on by the end of the week. Government ministers met at the weekend negotiating an amendment 4 with the Palmer United Party that will ensure the savings 5 are passed on to consumers. PUP Senators will meet this morning to hopefully sign off on the event.

v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词);摧毁;毁灭;在感情上(精神上、财务上等)压垮adj.毁坏的;极为震惊的
  • The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
  • His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。
n.消失,消散,失踪
  • He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.他难以说明她为什么不见了。
  • Her disappearance gave rise to the wildest rumours.她失踪一事引起了各种流言蜚语。
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。
n.改正,修正,改善,修正案
  • The amendment was rejected by 207 voters to 143.这项修正案以207票对143票被否决。
  • The Opposition has tabled an amendment to the bill.反对党已经就该议案提交了一项修正条款。
n.存款,储蓄
  • I can't afford the vacation,for it would eat up my savings.我度不起假,那样会把我的积蓄用光的。
  • By this time he had used up all his savings.到这时,他的存款已全部用完。
学英语单词
Aconitum cavaleriei
acoustoelectronics
arm restraint
automizers
available discount
balistids
Bamber Bridge
bilaterally matched attenuator
blank Qigong
bone-ashes
brecher
brevatonal
Brittain
Brown-Tail
c drive
central rift
chunk sampling
clifflikest
compression pad
context-sensitive parser
continental codes
damping-off of seedling
defect of visual field
dolmus,dolmush
drug-admixed-food
dry suture
dual taxation
dynamics of excited state
equipment casualties
ethnoburb
foam lining
FPP
friction cpupling
gas-tight entry
General Average Expenditure or Disbursements
Ghizri Cr.
governor union nut
half-rays
hartin
helping hands
hfro
horison
integrated block channel
intracytosis
issued
knock thedaylights out of
libertini
logical not component
low lying swamp land
lowbush cranberry
luminaire for factory and mine use
main target
Maraldy, Ozero
marmaladed
marriage-equality
Mellon Financial Corporation
mercadiers
mercury phenide
metania
microprojection reading balance
mixed fibre brush
moral victory
mountain ringlets
neopatriarchy
obv.
Orchard Lake
par regime
passenger vessel
percutaneous transluminal balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty
phonological coding
piss poor
Port Ewen
prahuss
propion gel
pseudohypogammaglobulinemia
safe custody box
sciencial
search and rescue aircraft
self-investeds
seniorizes
separately compute and pay tax on each category
short take off and landing airplane
skah
Soviet Central Asia
sowed
sparing therapy
steep increase in prices
sub cranial
Suharǎu
tariff wall
Thalassoma bifasciatum
Thimbu Dzong
treip
tropical anticyclone
trout-rod
tubifera dimorphotheca
unevenness at rail joint
up a gum tree
variable-mu hexode
VGAS
Watts, Isaac
zanthoxylum piasezkii maxim.