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 Rural Fire Service is urging people not to panic, despite issuing the highest possible fire danger warning in New South Wales for the first time. Forecast temperatures in the mid 1 40s and hot winds have pushed the fire danger into the 'catastrophic' category in the state’s central west and south. In South Australia, lightning strikes continue to ignite blazes overnight, but authority says there is no threat to homes. And total fire bans are in place in Victoria's northeast and in the ACT.


There is optimism a bipartisan deal on the ETS can be done by the end of the weekend. The split in the Liberal Party seems to have eased after a scathing 2 attack on the science behind climate change. Nick Minchin says he will abide 3 by the Coalition 4 party room's decision even if it means voting in favor of the plan.


And the Federal Opposition 5 says there is chaos 6 and confusion over the conditions for the housing for women and children asylum 7 seekers who've left the Oceanic Viking. Some of the Sri Lankan women say they've been locked up in a facility near Tanjung Pinnang detention 8 center. The Immigration Minister Chris Evans says the building has suitable facilities.


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1 mid
adj.中央的,中间的
  • Our mid-term exam is pending.我们就要期中考试了。
  • He switched over to teaching in mid-career.他在而立之年转入教学工作。
2 scathing
adj.(言词、文章)严厉的,尖刻的;不留情的adv.严厉地,尖刻地v.伤害,损害(尤指使之枯萎)( scathe的现在分词)
  • a scathing attack on the new management 针对新的管理层的猛烈抨击
  • Her speech was a scathing indictment of the government's record on crime. 她的演讲强烈指责了政府在犯罪问题上的表现。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 abide
vi.遵守;坚持;vt.忍受
  • You must abide by the results of your mistakes.你必须承担你的错误所造成的后果。
  • If you join the club,you have to abide by its rules.如果你参加俱乐部,你就得遵守它的规章。
4 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。
5 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。
6 chaos
n.混乱,无秩序
  • After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后,城市一片混乱。
  • The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。
7 asylum
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。
8 detention
n.滞留,停留;拘留,扣留;(教育)留下
  • He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
  • He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。
学英语单词
administer medicine
affiliated state bodies
Amylomyces rouxii
antihyperon
as firm as a rock
Azerbaijanian
Babile
back vision
beam deviation loss
boling
bum along
cel wall
coefficient of utilisation
community life
compromissary
computer-assisted instruction
Conway, Mt.
creeping bellflowers
dandy-wink
dentinosteoid
director of compass department
duck-billed speculum
dunseaths
elastic state
electronic hump cabin
elephant city
embrother
emc (electro magnetic compatibility)
Exclusive Liability of Cargo Transportation Insurance
Filadelfia
fluviograph
Gila Mountains
glucosan derivative
Gould plotter
grugru worms
guided discovery
heat-flow
heidsiecks
Hexagrammos decagrammus
Hickson
high-speed ploughing
highest intercostal vein
indecent prints
inferme
insurance firms
investment contract
involuntary stop
iron rich powder process
jet-rotor
levelling bolt
lightwaters
liturgical books
maximum operational mode
May games
metastatic tumour
mica parition
michaelhouses
Miocene period
mitochondrion (pl. mitochondria)
months of sundays
Mozhginskiy Rayon
nonlinear devices
nonstory
office process
offset ground zero
oliva multiplicata
one-base hit
ordinary express train
pedunculus ophthalmicus
Pesaro e Urbino
photoelectrodes
prohibitiveness
quartering
rerecordable
Rocky Mountain jay
Räpina
skid polishing
SMAO
smell a smell of
solonetzic
species-poor
sphenosalpingopharyngeal
spring barley
square-wave voltage
station error detection
steering wheel centre
sudden deafness
sum to
syvestrene
take the shine out of
The bishop has played the cook.
Thórisdalur
track laying
tree search algorithm
triquetrum (os)
trunk of spinal nerve
unstructured data
valnllae semilunares arteriae
vena bulbi urethrae
Ventura
wire feeder device
yersinia ruckeri