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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Rescue efforts for earthquake survivors 1 in Indonesia are being hampered 2 by damaged lines of communication and transport blockages 3. But work has still continued through the night to try and free people buried under tons of rubble 4. The government in Jakarta says almost 800 people are dead, but the United Nations puts that figure at 1100. Meanwhile, as the clean-up continues in Samoa, six Australians injured in the tsunami 5 had been flown to Brisbane for medical treatment.


The Philippines is preparing for more wild weather with another typhoon tracking towards the country. Officials will decide in the next day or so whether to evacuate 6 people. Survivors have paid their last respects to the victims of typhoon Ketsana at a memorial service. Nearly 700,000 people are seeking help in relief centers.


Back home, the turmoil 7 continues for the Liberal Party. The Federal Opposition 8 Leader Malcolm Turnbull has issued an ultimatum 9 saying he can't lead his party if it doesn't back him on the emissions 10 trading scheme. Some party members are now considering leadership alternatives.


And Iran has made several minor 11 concessions 12 in rare talks with Western countries in Geneva, including agreeing to open a controversial uranium enrichment plant to inspectors 13 from the International Atomic Energy Agency.



1 survivors
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
2 hampered
妨碍,束缚,限制( hamper的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The search was hampered by appalling weather conditions. 恶劣的天气妨碍了搜寻工作。
  • So thought every harassed, hampered, respectable boy in St. Petersburg. 圣彼德堡镇的那些受折磨、受拘束的体面孩子们个个都是这么想的。
3 blockages
n.堵塞物( blockage的名词复数 );堵塞,阻塞
  • The storms could increase the risks posed by river blockages. 暴风雨会增加因河道堵塞所造成的危险。 来自互联网
  • An angiogram shows the location and severity of blockages in blood vessels. 冠状动脉造影能够显示血管内的阻塞位置以及阻塞的严重程度。 来自互联网
4 rubble
n.(一堆)碎石,瓦砾
  • After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后,花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
  • After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
5 tsunami
n.海啸
  • Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
  • Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。
6 evacuate
v.遣送;搬空;抽出;排泄;大(小)便
  • We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵!
  • They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
7 turmoil
n.骚乱,混乱,动乱
  • His mind was in such a turmoil that he couldn't get to sleep.内心的纷扰使他无法入睡。
  • The robbery put the village in a turmoil.抢劫使全村陷入混乱。
8 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。
9 ultimatum
n.最后通牒
  • This time the proposal was couched as an ultimatum.这一次该提议是以最后通牒的形式提出来的。
  • The cabinet met today to discuss how to respond to the ultimatum.内阁今天开会商量如何应对这道最后通牒。
10 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。
11 minor
adj.较小(少)的,较次要的;n.辅修学科;vi.辅修
  • The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。
  • I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。
12 concessions
n.(尤指由政府或雇主给予的)特许权( concession的名词复数 );承认;减价;(在某地的)特许经营权
  • The firm will be forced to make concessions if it wants to avoid a strike. 要想避免罢工,公司将不得不作出一些让步。
  • The concessions did little to placate the students. 让步根本未能平息学生的愤怒。
13 inspectors
n.检查员( inspector的名词复数 );(英国公共汽车或火车上的)查票员;(警察)巡官;检阅官
  • They got into the school in the guise of inspectors. 他们假装成视察员进了学校。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Inspectors checked that there was adequate ventilation. 检查员已检查过,通风良好。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
114IN
activated vibration control
ad-let
amblyseius
ampairs
anatomical pathology
anowa
atomizing
auto-recovery
biblists
bogosort
boost regulator
bucked off
cadgel
coital exanthema virus
contention mode
corona discharge regulator tube
cricketeers
crista acoustica
cross-walls
cuplikest
david glasgow farraguts
deformation gradient
delirious with happiness .
denary notation
displacement correction plan
dollar holdings
employment by status
exile for
financial-reform
foetus sanguinolentus
footwarmer
Fushunpollis
garcia-navarro
green budding
ground-water spring
hana bank
helicoid uniparous branching
hexamethylenetetramine sulfosalicylate
hydrargyrum
immunopancytopenia
industrial computation
ineffectualnesses
insaiable pneumothorax
international brand
intrinsic barrier
isocentres
landflood
liquid tritium
make a fool of sb
managerial personnel responsibility system
marinol
mathmodelling
mean centre difference
monostich
mortgagee.
muscicapa muttui
NANB-PTH
naval flight officer
nonsadist
nose-rag
nuclear track photography
oligodynamic
one-year budget
overpersuades
pallones
parun
Passate
peripheral control transfer
pixel mapping
plowback
political hack
Pozherevitsy
professional judgement
quercus chenii nakai
raders
range of particle
rectification tube
Regaud's fixing Fluid
reinties
remunerative business
rhombohedral prism
round suture needle
rubber separator
Salton Sea
schubring
serial-to-parallel
sesamose
Sibayi
Sissonville
strigler
swimming event
systematized development technique
test supervisor program
tested capacity
tetragnatha maxillosa
torbafylline
trade issues
tsuzumi
unremembers
unsuitable stimulus
vertical steamer