英语听力：澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2013-09-27
时间：2019-01-19 作者：英语课 分类：澳洲ABC新闻快递2013年
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Former foreign minister Alexander Downer has taken a swipe at Indonesia just days before the Prime Minister Tony Abbott travels there. He's accused the Indonesia government of pious 1 rhetoric 2 over Australia's asylum 3 seeker policies. Indonesia's Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa has warned Australia's plan to turn back asylum seeker boats risks damaging the relationship between the two countries.
Fire crews in New South Wales are battling to contain several bushfires burning on the state’s mid-north coast. They spent the night back-burning and are being helped by easing winds and cooler temperatures.
A Russian court has detained several Greenpeace activists 4 including an Australian for two months. Colin Russell is among 30 activists arrested over a protest at an arctic oil drilling platform. Russia has threatened to charge them with piracy 5 which carries a maximum 15 years in jail.
The interpol has issued a global arrest notice for a British woman dubbed 6 the “White Widow”. Semanth Latte White is the widow of one of the 2005 London bombers 7 and is wanted for an alleged 8 terrorist plot in Kenya.There has been speculation 9 she was linked to the Nairobi shopping centre siege, but the notice makes no reference to that.
Italian divers 10 are searching the raised wreckage 11 of the Italian cruiseship the Costa Concordia have found human remains 12. Two people remain unaccounted for after the ship sank off the Italian coast in January last year. More than 30 people died in the disaster.
adj.虔诚的；道貌岸然的
- Alexander is a pious follower of the faith.亚历山大是个虔诚的信徒。
- Her mother was a pious Christian.她母亲是一个虔诚的基督教徒。
n.修辞学，浮夸之言语
- Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗？
- Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后，他和军队的关系岌岌可危。
n.避难所，庇护所，避难
- The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
- Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。
n.（政治活动的）积极分子，活动家( activist的名词复数 )
- His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
- Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.海盗行为，剽窃，著作权侵害
- The government has already adopted effective measures against piracy.政府已采取有效措施惩治盗版行为。
- They made the place a notorious centre of piracy.他们把这地方变成了臭名昭著的海盗中心。
v.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 )；把…称为；配音；复制
- Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
- Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的？ 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 )；投弹手；安非他明胶囊；大麻叶香烟
- Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》
a.被指控的，嫌疑的
- It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
- alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
n.思索，沉思；猜测；投机
- Her mind is occupied with speculation.她的头脑忙于思考。
- There is widespread speculation that he is going to resign.人们普遍推测他要辞职。
adj.不同的；种种的
- He chose divers of them,who were asked to accompany him.他选择他们当中的几个人，要他们和他作伴。
- Two divers work together while a standby diver remains on the surface.两名潜水员协同工作，同时有一名候补潜水员留在水面上。
n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏
- They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
- New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。