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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 The Federal government is facing another pre-budget backflash this time over plans to increase the tax on petrol. Next week's budget will include the first hike in the fuel excise 1 in more than a decade. Some coalition 2 back benchers say it amounts to yet another broken promise.


 
Former Prime Minister Paul Keating is calling for an extra tax levy 3 to help support people aged 4 between 80 and 100. Mr. Keating has told Lateline here the existing compulsory 5 superannuation system should cover people aged 60 to 80, but more is needed for older Australians. 
 
Well, a longevity 6 levy of a kind, well at 2 or 3% of wages, and you put it in, but the Commonwealth 7 gives, guarantees you a calibrated 8, precise product - income support, age care - all the time when you can't help yourself. 
 
The Federal government's policy of processing asylum 9 seekers offshore 10 is being challenged in the High Court. Lawyers for an Iranian man will argue a decision to send him to Manus Island is illegal. Today's challenge is the latest in a long list of court action against offshore processing. 
 
And pro-Russian activists 11 in eastern Ukraine will go ahead with this weekend's independence vote despite a call by Russia's president Vladimir Putin to postpone 12 it. Ukraine's government says it'll ignore the results while the European Union is warning it will only worsen the crisis.

n.(国产)货物税;vt.切除,删去
  • I'll excise the patient's burnt areas.我去切除病人烧坏的部分。
  • Jordan's free trade zone free of import duty,excise tax and all other taxes.约旦的自由贸易区免收进口税、国内货物税及其它一切税收。
n.结合体,同盟,结合,联合
  • The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
  • Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
n.征收税或其他款项,征收额
  • They levy a tax on him.他们向他征税。
  • A direct food levy was imposed by the local government.地方政府征收了食品税。
adj.年老的,陈年的
  • He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了,也老点了。
  • He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老,然而记忆力还好。
n.强制的,必修的;规定的,义务的
  • Is English a compulsory subject?英语是必修课吗?
  • Compulsory schooling ends at sixteen.义务教育至16岁为止。
n.长命;长寿
  • Good habits promote longevity.良好的习惯能增长寿命。
  • Human longevity runs in families.人类的长寿具有家族遗传性。
n.共和国,联邦,共同体
  • He is the chairman of the commonwealth of artists.他是艺术家协会的主席。
  • Most of the members of the Commonwealth are nonwhite.英联邦的许多成员国不是白人国家。
v.校准( calibrate的过去式和过去分词 );使标准化;使合标准;测量(枪的)口径
  • Power pesticide dusters can be calibrated and used to apply pertilizer. 动力杀虫剂可以调整用来施肥。 来自辞典例句
  • The flexible diaphragm is connected to a plat cantilever-calibrated spring. 柔韧的膜片一扁平的悬臂校正弹簧相连。 来自辞典例句
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。
adj.海面的,吹向海面的;adv.向海面
  • A big program of oil exploration has begun offshore.一个大规模的石油勘探计划正在近海展开。
  • A gentle current carried them slowly offshore.和缓的潮流慢慢地把他们带离了海岸。
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》
v.延期,推迟
  • I shall postpone making a decision till I learn full particulars.在未获悉详情之前我得从缓作出决定。
  • She decided to postpone the converastion for that evening.她决定当天晚上把谈话搁一搁。
学英语单词
accounting periods
Akmolinskaya
alkali poisoning
aphonous
asuncin
atom-free zone
back and forths
back-formation, back formation
balance track
bankskoite
be pinched for money
biological rotation
breaker trip coil
building into
carbonate-platform sediment
cat's cradle
chessboard system of square yard plots
clear trailer
cobaltous arsenate
cognitive-behavioural
color fastness to sublimation
commercial domicile
cristae ethmoidalis
cui bono?
dinophysis caudata
direct driven synchro
drapetis pubicornis
electrostrictor
elwiss
embedded item of gate
emetophobia
entameba histolytica
extenuates
family Paeoniaceae
finder aperture
flange type
French disease
hear counsels on both side
Hemicormophyta
hot messes
hypoponera zwaluwenburgi
international dance alliance (ida)
interoseous metacarpal ligament
Irkliyiv
Kasowa
kill the time
Kossak
least tern
lilcic
loss on sale
medium converter
Merton
metric-fine thread
militances
mistraist
motor compensator with PID regulator
movable frame
musculus petrohyoideus
norm-, normo-
office/home address
ordnance storeroom
otitic barotrauma
overseas trade
Panshanger Airport
parum colligata
peden
phone phreakdom
posseman
press-releases
proctotome
radar handoff
read a riddle
reevesia thyrsoidea lindl.
reverse a judgment
reza shah pahlavi
Roe Bank
satellite problem
softball
solid waste system
souchong
speaker-trained system
spot exchange
standing on ceremony
stratospheric coupling
street vender
stumble out of
suburban coach
suspended refractory wall
tapping side
TB1
thermally sensitive
to angle for sth
top rate
top-seeded
trachycarpous
transboys
trimma tevegae
unbalanced case
United Nations Economic Development Administration
Velveeta
wireline plug
Zanthoxylum motuoense