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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Celebrations are continuing in Germany as thousands mark 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. German Chancellor 1 Angela Merkel joined the world leaders and dignitaries, setting off the line of giant dominos where the wall once stood. Despite the rain, tens of thousands of people gathered at the Brandenburg Gate to hear world leaders speak about the historic significance of events of 1989 and the reunification of the East and West.


Police are investigating the deaths of two people in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. The bodies of an elderly man and his 37-year-old daughter were found at a house in Randwick yesterday afternoon. A 3-year-old girl thought to be the man’s grandchild was taken to hospital with stab wounds.


Torrential rain is continuing to lash 2 Central America as Hurricane Ida triggers more floods and mudslides. The death toll 3 in El Salvador has risen to 130, and tens of thousands of people have been left homeless, rescue teams are struggling to reach some of the worst affected 4 areas.


And food manufacture Kraft has launched a 17-billion-dollar bid for the British confectionery giant Cadbury. Cadbury’s management has already rejected an offer from Kraft. It’s now made a direct bid to the company’s shareholders 5.


Stay with us for more news updates later.



1 chancellor
n.(英)大臣;法官;(德、奥)总理;大学校长
  • They submitted their reports to the Chancellor yesterday.他们昨天向财政大臣递交了报告。
  • He was regarded as the most successful Chancellor of modern times.他被认为是现代最成功的财政大臣。
2 lash
v.系牢;鞭打;猛烈抨击;n.鞭打;眼睫毛
  • He received a lash of her hand on his cheek.他突然被她打了一记耳光。
  • With a lash of its tail the tiger leaped at her.老虎把尾巴一甩朝她扑过来。
3 toll
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
4 affected
adj.不自然的,假装的
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
5 shareholders
n.股东( shareholder的名词复数 )
  • The meeting was attended by 90% of shareholders. 90%的股东出席了会议。
  • the company's fiduciary duty to its shareholders 公司对股东负有的受托责任
学英语单词
abil
accuracy standard
additive primary
attentivenesses
authorization of agent
automatic message switching network
ball socket manipulator
basis of integer
batching bin
book of knowledge
boring cutter
bucarams
carbureting pilot
catalytic combustion analyzer
check availability
chhota udepur (chota udaipur)
Chorioideremy
cognitive interest
constitutional-level
control rod range
cricket
cyaneum
decubitus chronicus
designed waterline
diametrical connection
drug therapy
ecphronia
ef us
electric telgraph
electronic methods
elliptic(al) waveguide
eucalyptus leaves
exobiophase
family miridaes
filler graft
filling pipe
finit
firefights
fixed debt
function call syntax
fund of disbursement
futurition
general electric electronic processor
GNH
high-order mode
high-voltage trigger tube
indirect acting carcinogens
Ineu
infrared sensor
interlocking switch
internal glomerulus
job searching
john greenleaf whittiers
juiceful
keel length
livyere
lunch lid
mechanical production rate
modulus of rupture
morale-booster
multicolour photometry
neurology of plastic surgery
Nicolle stain
nose to tail eating
offset fire control
operants
outward correspondences
pacific northamer-ican floral region
pattern card
photoabsorption cross section
polygonhood
printing technology
pure glyptal resin
refurnished
restiff
retromodding
ridic
running crack
rural planning survey
sab-cat
safety fire line
self destruction
sensorinural
sexlinked
Sigpred
simple dichotomy
SISOTIDAE
spool balance valve
stamp tax act
stellar photometry
surface charge
syngenote
TAB/VAC
TCFU
teal blue
terminal sequencer
third tonsil
three-lanest
total shaft horse-power
water cube
water tables
wuthnow