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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A west Australian man who won the right to starve himself to death has died in a Perth nursing home. Quadriplegic Christian 1 Rossiter was confined to a wheelchair, breathed through a tube and was fed artificially. He told his cares he wanted to die, and last month, the WA Supreme 2 Court ruled he had the right to refuse food.




The Victorian Premier 3 John Brumby departs for India today, hoping to ease concern on the subcontinent over racist 4 bashings in Melbourne. A spate 5 of recent violence against Indian students has received extensive media attention in India. Meanwhile, the Premier has abandoned the Mumbai leg of his trip, after warnings of a possible terrorist attack.




Creditors 6 affected 7 by the collapse 8 of Babcock & Brown have contributed more than 300,000 dollars to a fighting fund. It'll be used to pursue the failed investment bank's former directors and senior management. The money will help cover the cost of a more thorough examination of the group's collapse, including weather the company traded while insolvent 9.




And half a million people have jammed into Havana's Revolution Square for a peace concert. 14 Spanish-language pop stars are performing in an effort to bring together Cubans and Americans. The concert is being televised internationally.




We'll have more news later.



1 Christian
adj.基督教徒的;n.基督教徒
  • They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
  • His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
2 supreme
adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的
  • It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
3 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。
4 racist
n.种族主义者,种族主义分子
  • a series of racist attacks 一连串的种族袭击行为
  • His speech presented racist ideas under the guise of nationalism. 他的讲话以民族主义为幌子宣扬种族主义思想。
5 spate
n.泛滥,洪水,突然的一阵
  • Police are investigating a spate of burglaries in the area.警察正在调查这一地区发生的大量盗窃案。
  • Refugees crossed the border in full spate.难民大量地越过了边境。
6 creditors
n.债权人,债主( creditor的名词复数 )
  • They agreed to repay their creditors over a period of three years. 他们同意3年内向债主还清欠款。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Creditors could obtain a writ for the arrest of their debtors. 债权人可以获得逮捕债务人的令状。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 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。
8 collapse
vi.累倒;昏倒;倒塌;塌陷
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
9 insolvent
adj.破产的,无偿还能力的
  • They lost orders and were insolvent within weeks.他们失去了订货,几周后就无法偿还债务。
  • The bank was declared insolvent.银行被宣布破产。
学英语单词
acceptant
action of accounting
airator
American foxhound
ammoniac and mercury plaster
arteriolae rectae
Asterias Seamount
bar code check character
barbella pendula
Benifallim
blanking code
Brahmo Samaj
brown madder
bulwarked
cane carrier
carriage works
carrier grade
catalyst promoter
chgar
clomse
closed shed
cockade ore
cork ring
cubic capacity of tanks
danger sound
dark-field microscopes
disauthorize
dishonorably
Distributed COM
emitter timing monostable circuit
escopet
extraction titration
fiaunts
filo-
frequency thermometer
glyceritum tragacanthae
great improvement
gun-pointing radar
hematogenous dissemination
highburies
hode
hyomandibular cartilage (or hyomandibula)
ibm tivoli storage resource manager agent
inner dead center
Insp. Gen.
intertrigo ani
intervention schedule
intransitable
iodinated contrast reagent
ivy geraniums
Iłżanka
kna(u)r
landslide victory
language acquisition model
levodesoxyephedrine
Lojbanistan
manganous oxide
manual shut down
meat hookss
medullo
metallochelation
Michel parameter
microporous membrane technique
misexpound
mix business with pleasure
no cure no pay
non-turbo
nonspheres
outyielding
penal servitude for definite period
photoelastometry
piercing tentacle
plumbi monoxidum
pneumat-
prediger
regurgitant vomiting
rotor head drag
RST (restart)
scratch your head
screenhouses
shadow gazer
Shamash
single-kick multivibrator
software for industrial process control
spring loaded drill colter
stick bite
stoopest
sword of Damocles
sychnosphygmia
telegraphic
tolu tree
trap hairs
unterberger
use of radical scavenger
variance criterion
VDR (voltage-dependent resistor)
wheel work
wilkinson power divider
wristguard
Yixian Formation
yonnondios
zigzag lightning