时间:2019-02-14 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2014年


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 A man shot by police after his 12-year-old son was killed at a sports field near Melbourne has now died in hospital. The boy was found dead from head injuries at the oval in Tyabb yesterday. Police tried to subdue 1 his father with capsicum spray(辣椒喷雾), but shot him in the chest when he rushed them with a knife. The shocking events unfolded in front of children attending cricket and football practice around 6:30 last night. 


 
Thirteen hundred workers have lost their jobs after a Perth-based mining contractor 2 went into administration. Cost overruns and profit downgrades had forced the Forge Group into a major restructure. The receivers Korda Mentha say the sacked workers should receive their entitlements from asset sales.
 
Qantas boss Alan Joyce has renewed his call for Federal Government help. In a speech to a tourism forum 3 in Canberra last night, Mr. Joyce has stressed that Qantas is not like Holden or SPC Ardmona. He says the airline is not after a taxpayer 4 handout 5, but wants the Federal Government to guarantee Qantas' debt. 
 
Federal Treasurer 6 Joe Hockey has signaled he's getting ready to sell off 130 billion dollars in assets ranging from Medibank Private to electricity poles. Mr. Hockey has told the Wall Street Journal he wants to set an example to cash-strapped governments around the world that need new funds to boost their economies.
 
In Syria, aid trucks have delivered foods to starving residents in the war-torn city of Homs. The regime has agreed to extend a ceasefire that's allowed hundreds of civilians 7 to flee that city.

vt.制服,使顺从,征服;抑制,克制
  • She tried to subdue her anger.她尽力压制自己的怒火。
  • He forced himself to subdue and overcome his fears.他强迫自己克制并战胜恐惧心理。
n.订约人,承包人,收缩肌
  • The Tokyo contractor was asked to kick $ 6000 back as commission.那个东京的承包商被要求退还6000美元作为佣金。
  • The style of house the contractor builds depends partly on the lay of the land.承包商所建房屋的式样,有几分要看地势而定。
n.论坛,讨论会
  • They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
  • The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。
n.纳税人
  • The new scheme will run off with a lot of the taxpayer's money.这项新计划将用去纳税人许多钱。
  • The taxpayer are unfavourably disposed towards the recent tax increase.纳税者对最近的增加税收十分反感。
n.散发的文字材料;救济品
  • I read the handout carefully.我仔细看了这份分发的资料。
  • His job was distributing handout at the street-corner.他的工作是在街头发传单。
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。
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
学英语单词
aneroid-barometer
annual bulletin
antitypical
askewness
atonied
autogiros
automatic grid generation
automatically tuned shortwave transmitter
bargeese
barometric observation
belieffulness
Bernard-Soulier syndrome
bipolar bit-slice microcomputer
body tender bolster
bum fuck nowhere
bush-buck
cassava silkworm silk
castroviejo
catch-penny
cold-extrusion die
comparative analyses
constant pressure cycle
continuous hot-strip mill
continuous physical inventory
dead battery
dishpan experiments
division of peritoneal adhesions
dmd method
doctrine of descent
duesseldorf
dust cap
excitation ammeter
exocoeloma
farkled
fienden
fined tube exchanger
first-aid room
friction cone drive
Geissler's potash bulb
genus blastomycess
gibes
give witness on behalf of someone
given the circumstances
Gorbymania
Groupous inflammation
hammering chorea
have one's tongue in one's cheek
hella-
horizontal scanner
hybrid composite
hyphedonia
incidence cut-set
indigenous tradition
inverter power
irreversible deformation
lally column
lasting significance
lava lake
Levenshtein distances
lifts-on
lithium manganese oxide
lurago
Maghreb
mahout
management techniques
manams
microwave attenuative ceramics
mirages
Mumbaikar
my lips are sealed
nonadecamers
observation function
old stage
on-line monitor
opt out
optical data
overlapping concept description
paroxysmal
pebble-bed core
pennone
porina
profits realized
qualitative relation
representation formula
rolling cylinder gate
romanticizers
rubber-neckings
rug-cutter
rushwork
screw thread miller
simple linkage brake mechanism
stock-control system
Swertia mileensis
TCCF
television
the civil rights movement
the crossroads
unbalanced masses
undulatory current motor
unlessened
utopianization
woodshop