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


英语课

 Australia is poised 1 to start delivering weapons to Kurdish forces to help fight Islamic State militants 2 in Iraq. Overnight Iraqi forces captured the besieged 3 town of Amerli where Australian forces have earlier conducted an airdrop. The Prime Minister Tony Abbott has dismissed calls by the Greens to have parliament votes on Australian role in Iraq. 


 
They are working without partners to address what is a humanitarian 4 catastrophe 5, and a security nightmare in this very unstable 6 part of the world. 
 
Some of the most powerful players in the former Labour government of New South Wales faced a state-corruption inquiry 7 today. Former premier 8 Christina Keneally and former treasurer 9 Eric Roozendaal are among those expected to give evidence. Former Labour powerbroker Joe Tripodi would be back in the witness box this morning, accused of helping 10 a company owned by Nathan Tinkler. 
 
Public transport users in Sydney have been urged to be patient this morning as the city moves across to a new smart-card-ticketing system. The new Opal Card replaces 14 types of paper tickets on buses, ferries and trains. Some delays are expected as commuters get used to the new system. 
 
And smokers 11 will be paying more for a pack of cigarettes from today. The cigarette tax will jump by more than a dollar bringing the price of the pack of twenty to more than 20 dollars. The rise is the second of four annual tax increases.

a.摆好姿势不动的
  • The hawk poised in mid-air ready to swoop. 老鹰在半空中盘旋,准备俯冲。
  • Tina was tense, her hand poised over the telephone. 蒂娜心情紧张,手悬在电话机上。
激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
  • The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来,反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
  • Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此,巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
包围,围困,围攻( besiege的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Paris was besieged for four months and forced to surrender. 巴黎被围困了四个月后被迫投降。
  • The community besieged the newspaper with letters about its recent editorial. 公众纷纷来信对报社新近发表的社论提出诘问,弄得报社应接不暇。
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者
  • She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业,并作了很大的贡献。
  • The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
n.大灾难,大祸
  • I owe it to you that I survived the catastrophe.亏得你我才大难不死。
  • This is a catastrophe beyond human control.这是一场人类无法控制的灾难。
adj.不稳定的,易变的
  • This bookcase is too unstable to hold so many books.这书橱很不结实,装不了这么多书。
  • The patient's condition was unstable.那患者的病情不稳定。
n.打听,询问,调查,查问
  • Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
  • The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。
adj.首要的;n.总理,首相
  • The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
  • He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。
n.司库,财务主管
  • Mr. Smith was succeeded by Mrs.Jones as treasurer.琼斯夫人继史密斯先生任会计。
  • The treasurer was arrested for trying to manipulate the company's financial records.财务主管由于试图窜改公司财政帐目而被拘留。
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
吸烟者( smoker的名词复数 )
  • Many smokers who are chemically addicted to nicotine cannot cut down easily. 许多有尼古丁瘾的抽烟人不容易把烟戒掉。
  • Chain smokers don't care about the dangers of smoking. 烟鬼似乎不在乎吸烟带来的种种危害。
学英语单词
a piece of bread
accounting policy
bicarb
bisexual female
book-list
borders on
boundary lipid
bowwows
brachysyllabic
callistethus formosanus
capability mechanism
carbon-graphite impregnated with inorganic salt
caustic brittleness
Chloroaluminite
coclass
convite
deep-sea divers
deprecatorily
efficiency of economic operations
equivalent change
facies dorsales (digitorum pedis)
fluorescence x-ray analyzer
formable period offreezing wall
fuel cladding integrity
gallwitz
gamma ray logger
Gentiana itzershanensis
genus gazellas
graphitizes
hadopelagic zone
hitchily
hot-metals
hukous
hydroscopic water content
in red
income share
indepartable
industry application program
International Cricket Council
it-well
jackshaft
Japan Information Processing Network
lever assisted diagonal cutting nipper
Litsea mollifolia
little tradition
macro-environment
mazel
metaconid
minimum phase-shift network
mucinemia
Mycenaean civilization
necormimesis
neoseiulus spineus
nickel aluminate
Orr treatment
paggled
Pakxan
pancreatin
paper smoothness tester withvacuum pump
Paralamium
personal trainer
Pidimbaro
pilimictio
pluckier
Poggendorf
Point Pleasant
prepossessings
protonic conduction
Pularin
pwnt
radiocobalt
receiving department
retardation factor
rhachi-,rhachio-
rito
runlevel
San Marcos, Dep.de
Schmidt-Lantermann's incisures
secondary acid
serena williams
short-finned eel
side sheets
sign and issue
since that time
Solca
static reactivity
stock-turn
surface taut moor
test-pilots
thirdel
time varying channel
Torula capsulatus
transimission shaft
U. S. S. C.
unforeseen work
ungig
urban heliport
velocity of projection
voucher plan
Vrbovec
Vucic
Yauca, R.