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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Cooler weather forecast for this week is expected to help bring blazes across New South Wales under control. About a hundred fires are burning with residents in the central west townships of Kandos and Rylstone still on  alert. But the weather bureau says conditions will ease this week with cooler temperatures and some rain.


South Australian Premier 1 Mike Rann says a television program about his friendship with a former Parliament House waitress included allegations that are totally false. In the program, Michelle Chantelois said she had sex with the Premier in his office. In a written statement, the Premier rejects suggestions he preyed 2 on Ms Chantelois’ vulnerabilities or exploited her in any way.


The Opposition’s called for answers as to how detainees ended up injured in the secure detention 3 facility on Christmas Island. A riot broke up between 150 Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum 4 seekers being held at the center on Saturday night. Thirty-seven detainees were injured. Three had to be flown to Perth for treatment for broken bones.


And even Santa’s fallen victim to the anti-aging obsession 5 about times. After nearly five decades, New Zealand’s big Santa has been forced to undergo a face-lift to prop 6 up a droopy eye so he didn’t scare children.


I’ll have more news later.



1 premier
adj.首要的;n.总理,首相
  • The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
  • He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。
2 preyed
v.掠食( prey的过去式和过去分词 );掠食;折磨;(人)靠欺诈为生
  • Remorse preyed upon his mind. 悔恨使他内心痛苦。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • He had been unwise and it preyed on his conscience. 他做得不太明智,这一直让他良心不安。 来自辞典例句
3 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。
4 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。
5 obsession
n.困扰,无法摆脱的思想(或情感)
  • I was suffering from obsession that my career would be ended.那时的我陷入了我的事业有可能就此终止的困扰当中。
  • She would try to forget her obsession with Christopher.她会努力忘记对克里斯托弗的迷恋。
6 prop
vt.支撑;n.支柱,支撑物;支持者,靠山
  • A worker put a prop against the wall of the tunnel to keep it from falling.一名工人用东西支撑住隧道壁好使它不会倒塌。
  • The government does not intend to prop up declining industries.政府无意扶持不景气的企业。
学英语单词
'Aïn Barbar
'new
advice of circumstance preventing carriage
Alsonemedi
aquae labyrinthi
artificial indigo
attry
backrooms
basin aspect
Belyuen
benefit year
Blackadder
Bulgarevo
Camelopardus
carbon-carbon composite material
carry number
Chamberland filter, Chamberland candle
choks
chord member of truss
Chymex
coaxial feed
collection of price
core drills
crayon licenses
criterion score
cryptopyic
ctenitis maximowicziana
cucumber trellises
cuzinal
detailed physical design
diameter rounding
disc coal-cutter
electric tea leaflet cutter
endothrix infection
fessoun
Fitzroy Crossing
Formosa Strait
grid cover
johore lama
ka'ao
L-radiation
lamellar part
launched into
load motor
looting
louse cage
lubricant plug
macambas
maple-sugar
mechancial splices
Meconopsis integrifolia
mictocystis
miniphones
monoethanolamide
mulier
mur-der
mynchens
negative temperature laser
night bells
non-equilibrium isotopic exchange method
NWFZs
obturator ring
operation strategy
panza
partially-sighteds
Pauliström
per metric ton
popsters
Porangahau R.
postvestibulum
pound the books
prochlorococcus
projected charge demonition kit
promise someone the moon
Péruwelz
Ramus atrialis intermedius
rising stars
Rākābād
safeguard technology
scientizing
sedimentation of coke
session protocol data unit (spdu)
shambolically
shift count register
side platform combine
similar figure
Skopun
sleeps over
slide breccia
Soga Guyot
steeple-compound turbine
Taougrite
trimerous
turions
Tuscany School
wikitext
wood-containing paper
woodblock printing
word searches
Xi Ma Cai
yokoyama
zoili