时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2010年


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 Three Indonesian crew members rescued from last week's shipwreck 1 off Christmas Island are close to being charged. Australian Federal Police have already questioned the men, but they won't comment on whether any charges could include manslaughter.


 
In Western Australia, emergency workers are preparing food drops for people stranded 2 by floodwaters in the state’s north. Carnarvon, near the mouth of the Gascoyne River, is experiencing its worst flooding in 50 years. The river is expected to peak early this morning. Already about 30 residents stranded on rooftops have been airlifted to safety.
 
A massive oil pipeline 3 explosion in central Mexico has killed at least 23 people. The blast destroyed several houses and cars in the small town of San Martin Texmelucan. Officials say the fire is now under control.
 
The Federal Government is set to release the full business plan for its National Broadband Network today. The document's expected to shed more light on the cost of building the network and also just how much it will charge for wholesale 4 services. The Government's been under pressure since November to release that plan.
 
The Federal Government has presented a plan to East Timor outlining its proposal for a regional detention 5 centre. It's more than five months after the Government first suggested the plan. And Fairfax newspapers quote East Timor's foreign minister as saying the document they've been given is very short on detail. It'll be presented to the country's cabinet for further consideration.

1 shipwreck
n.船舶失事,海难
  • He walked away from the shipwreck.他船难中平安地脱险了。
  • The shipwreck was a harrowing experience.那次船难是一个惨痛的经历。
2 stranded
a.搁浅的,进退两难的
  • He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里, 身无分文,一筹莫展。
  • I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市,既没有钱,又没有朋友。
3 pipeline
n.管道,管线
  • The pipeline supplies Jordan with 15 per cent of its crude oil.该管道供给约旦15%的原油。
  • A single pipeline serves all the houses with water.一条单管路给所有的房子供水。
4 wholesale
n.批发;adv.以批发方式;vt.批发,成批出售
  • The retail dealer buys at wholesale and sells at retail.零售商批发购进货物,以零售价卖出。
  • Such shoes usually wholesale for much less.这种鞋批发出售通常要便宜得多。
5 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
accipitoiliac
achromatising
ADL (annual dose limit)
amplifier output
areeda-turner test
azrouel
bad file name
be in on a racket
be staring at sth
beauteous
bench multimeter
blanketyblank
break with
bulteel
cam lock bracket
cane-cutting
catrionas
Caza Pava
circulating water flume
Civil Guard
clypeomorus subbrevicula
coating additive
contrary to nature
counter current operation
crackpots
curaremimetic activity
declassifiable
designing engineer
diplasmatic
El Sacamil
electron transfer coefficient
Elsassian
engine-generator
exokinetic fissure
explicit send-receive
Eyes right
fetal abnormality
fired-tubular reactor
football coaches
frictional attachment
generalized sample variance
get the old heave-ho
glue paper
Gobiesocidae
grouchers
habitual dislocation of shoulder
had around
hire-purchase company
Hirth minimeter
idea hamster
jawbonists
job opening
jody
K cells
Lag b'Omer
large computer
laser-aiming
Lorquin
Ma-ubin
make a muddle of
make broad her phylacteries
make the best of
malfeasances
Marmota flaviventris
melting characteristic
memory exerciser
memory storage
mercury connection
multi-occupation
Muong Lay
myelogenous
N-Ethylamphetamine
necrostomatitis
ocular nystagmus
one-thirty-five
orders acknowledged
Papanui Inlet
Philomena
re-aerate
Reversol
romanelli
screwtops
Sennariolo
skowronski
social reaction theory
solidago spathulatas
static equilibrium method
suturae palatoethmoidalis
take the case history
thematic atlas
tight bound
tolindate
trichochrysea formosana
undervaluers
unreduced mapping cylinder
videnoida borealis
voltage fluctuation characteristic
wheat pasture poisoning
world famous
Xiushanian Stage
yisra'el
zinc ointments