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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Voters’ support for Malcolm Turnbull is lower now than when he was elected Opposition 1 Leader a year ago. The latest Nielsen Poll shows Mr. Turnbull’s approval rating rose 4 points this month to 35%, but the same rating was 45% this time last year. Today’s survey also shows 41% of voters support the Opposition’s call to wind back the stimulus 2 package.


The Australian Racing 3 Board will be hoping to resolve a dispute about whipping rules when it meets jockeys today. Jockeys walked off the job last week, angry at new rules that limit the number of times a horse can be whipped during a race. Owners, trainers and jockeys say they are prepared to continue their fight and disrupt the Spring Racing Carnival 4 if necessary.


An Australian-led team of researchers may have scored an important breakthrough in the treatment of hepatitis C. They’ve identified a variant 5 in a gene 6 that can inhibit 7 the treatment for chronic 8 hepatitis. Researchers say the finding could help treatment of the disease.


And five-time champion Roger Federer is through to the US Open tennis final after beating Serbian fourth-seed Novak Djokovic in straight sets. He will now meet Argentine Juan Martin del Potro in tomorrow’s decide-up.


And I will have more news in an hour.



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 stimulus
n.刺激,刺激物,促进因素,引起兴奋的事物
  • Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
  • Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。
3 racing
n.竞赛,赛马;adj.竞赛用的,赛马用的
  • I was watching the racing on television last night.昨晚我在电视上看赛马。
  • The two racing drivers fenced for a chance to gain the lead.两个赛车手伺机竞相领先。
4 carnival
n.嘉年华会,狂欢,狂欢节,巡回表演
  • I got some good shots of the carnival.我有几个狂欢节的精彩镜头。
  • Our street puts on a carnival every year.我们街的居民每年举行一次嘉年华会。
5 variant
adj.不同的,变异的;n.变体,异体
  • We give professional suggestions according to variant tanning stages for each customer.我们针对每位顾客不同的日晒阶段,提供强度适合的晒黑建议。
  • In a variant of this approach,the tests are data- driven.这个方法的一个变种,是数据驱动的测试。
6 gene
n.遗传因子,基因
  • A single gene may have many effects.单一基因可能具有很多种效应。
  • The targeting of gene therapy has been paid close attention.其中基因治疗的靶向性是值得密切关注的问题之一。
7 inhibit
vt.阻止,妨碍,抑制
  • Don't let ego and greed inhibit clear thinking and hard work.不要让自我和贪婪妨碍清晰的思维和刻苦的工作。
  • They passed a law to inhibit people from parking in the street.他们通过一项法令以阻止人们在街上停车。
8 chronic
adj.(疾病)长期未愈的,慢性的;极坏的
  • Famine differs from chronic malnutrition.饥荒不同于慢性营养不良。
  • Chronic poisoning may lead to death from inanition.慢性中毒也可能由虚弱导致死亡。
学英语单词
ambipolar mobility
approach embankment
atomic dipole moment
Bacillus I.III
baronetcies
black and white TV
boom shadow
Brisbane R.
campaign manager
catechols
celestone soluspan
central watching board
city councils
clapper-board
CMOS logic
commercial risks
congenital miosis
dark matter
debug-item
deformed wing virus
deuterothemes
disaggragate series
dry -powder developer
ectopic calcification
enact a law
eyelet weld
final worth
flexible friend
full-journal bearing
gear motor for screw conveyer
genus Thysanocarpus
gerbille
goldlike
grant of license
gueldenstedtia yunanensis granch.
hadto
haemins
hauled ass
hereditas iacens
high blood pressures
high-strength quality steel wire
hold-off arm
IDA credits
incense-smoke
irreversible transition
Island B.
it's nothing
Kirkby Glacier
Kojevnikov
lower bed
management effectiveness
massive radiation
mcelroys
measurement device of oil temperature
med-el
meridian altitude below pole
multilingual information processing
Nagornskiy
napa cabbage
nbca
neurostimulation
overpressurizing
padding thread
permeability resisting expansive cement
physics of dielectric solid
pig reared per sow
pith part
pocketwatch
prison-officers
proper mesentery
Propopanoceras
publishly
Pyrola rotundifolia
reciprocal mimicry
retarding spring
return water temperature
Sangaréa, B.de
short-circuit turn
soap body
source entropy
spaghettification
spike amplitude
staff light
straight-collector ionization chamber
subsalient
sughrue
superversion
torus levatorius
tracking angle acceleration
transverse frontoparietal index
Tumby
turbine surgical instruments
unburden oneself of sth.
user interaction
vasoconstrictor nerve
vernier protractor
vertical channel computer
visual design
Wenker sentence
wind ups
wordsman
wrapables