时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2009年


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The Federal Opposition 1 Leader Tony Abbott will use today's front bench reshuffle to reward Coalition 2 MPs who spoke 3 out against emissions 4 trading. It comes a week after Mr. Abbott won a leadership's bill over Malcolm Turnbull. Liberal Senate Leader Nick Minchin is expected to take over the energy and resources portfolio 5 from the emissions trading scheme negotiator Ian Macfarlane.


A former Indonesian soldier says the Australian newsmen known as the Balibo Five were shot deliberately 6 in the 1975 Indonesian invasion of East Timor. Gatot Purwanto decided 7 to speak out after seeing the Australian film Balibo which has been banned in Indonesia. He says the group's killing 8 had been a rational decision to prevent word of the invasion leaking out.


Rising interest rates and unemployment are expected to curb 9 retail 10 sales growth next year according to independent forecaster Access Economics. It says sales earlier this year were solid thanks to the Federal Government's cash hand-outs.


And in Athens, youths have clashed with police on a second day of protests to mark the first anniversary of the fatal shooting of a teenager by police. Protesters threw stones as a 5000-strong crowd march to the city's Parliament. More than a dozen protesters were arrested, adding to the 400 who were arrested at the weekend.


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1 opposition
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
2 coalition
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。
3 spoke
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
4 emissions
排放物( emission的名词复数 ); 散发物(尤指气体)
  • Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
  • Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。
5 portfolio
n.公事包;文件夹;大臣及部长职位
  • He remembered her because she was carrying a large portfolio.他因为她带着一个大公文包而记住了她。
  • He resigned his portfolio.他辞去了大臣职务。
6 deliberately
adv.审慎地;蓄意地;故意地
  • The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
  • They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。
7 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
8 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
9 curb
n.场外证券市场,场外交易;vt.制止,抑制
  • I could not curb my anger.我按捺不住我的愤怒。
  • You must curb your daughter when you are in church.你在教堂时必须管住你的女儿。
10 retail
v./n.零售;adv.以零售价格
  • In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
  • These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。
学英语单词
acceleration lag
Adygeya
altar fire
amyloidosis of liver
apx
arciila
argon oxygen decarburizing process
artificer's
asbestos mat
automatic air-traffic control equipment
bent wood turning machine
bivariate logarithmic distribution
body-miking
Bonnieres
bosh break out
Bursa musculi coracobrachialis
Caculama
caergol
calibration standard
Californianizing
Castel Durante
chauffeur's fracture
chromatographic component
Church Fenton
colo(u)r picture processing system
compromise sort
cross-garnet
d-exponent
dehiscent capsule
double-size
educashun
equalization of landownership
eucholia
faltung integral
fistfighter
flake asbestos
flitched girder
floodfill
gas ovens
general alarm
groundwall
Hay, Mt.
hexachloro-cyclohexane
huguettes
hyaline endothelioma
Impatiens paradoxa
incomplete learning method
incretionary
kwark
Laroche-St-Cydroine
life-course
lodgingless
logic centre
magnetic powder brake
marcus whitmen
maximum bending moment
mechanical templet
metal-roofed
mimrams
moderation time
multiple-stage flash evaporation
Munroe
nasal polypus snare
needierest
nitrogen concentration
normal saline water
on one's own merits
Pavilosta
Pecopteroid
percussible
platinum (electro)plating
polygonal rubble masonry
portal trestle
portionists
positioner valve
poskine
pour test
preban
precooked food
press-molded
pulmo-aortic
Quartodecimans
remonstrants
retail value
saccadic movement
set off
side-attached mower
signal resolution
Sonoran province
stroap
test bias
tie in arrangement
tin-bronzes
toeding
two-loop servomechanism
vhf radio communication
Viel
VVL
wavy fins
werbners
zircon web offset printing machine
zorbamycin