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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 The threat of war on the Korean peninsula looms 1 after one of the worst clashes in 60 years. Two South Korean soldiers were killed and 19 other people were injured when the North fired 50 artillery 2 shells at the southern island of Yeonpyeong. South Korea returned fire with 80 shells and has threatened Pyongyang with missile strikes. The former US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Christopher Hill says China must take an active role in easing the tensions. 


 
Cambodian authorities say the number of people killed in a stampede is likely to rise. At least 378 people were killed and 750 injured when panic struck in the capital Phnom Penh yesterday. 
 
Mine authorities in New Zealand have defended their decision to show CCTV vision of Friday’s explosion. There’s been no contact from the miners and authorities say the situation is getting bleaker 3 by the hour. 
 
Liberal Senator Julian McGauran has called for the Indigenous 4 welcome to country to be dropped from the opening of Parliament each day. The Indigenous statement of recognition has been made at the start of each sitting along with the Lord’s Prayer. 
 
And the date has been set for a British royal wedding in April next year. Prince William and Kate Middleton will marry on the 29th of April. Westminster Abbey has been chosen as the venue 5. The royal family and the Middletons will pay for the wedding.

1 looms
n.织布机( loom的名词复数 )v.隐约出现,阴森地逼近( loom的第三人称单数 );隐约出现,阴森地逼近
  • All were busily engaged,men at their ploughs,women at their looms. 大家都很忙,男的耕田,女的织布。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The factory has twenty-five looms. 那家工厂有25台织布机。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 artillery
n.(军)火炮,大炮;炮兵(部队)
  • This is a heavy artillery piece.这是一门重炮。
  • The artillery has more firepower than the infantry.炮兵火力比步兵大。
3 bleaker
阴冷的( bleak的比较级 ); (状况)无望的; 没有希望的; 光秃的
  • Horoscopes are merely harmless escapism from an ever-bleaker world. 占星术只不过是让人逃避越发令人沮丧的世界的无害消遣罢了。
  • On the ground the mood is bleaker. 具体形势更加严峻。
4 indigenous
adj.土产的,土生土长的,本地的
  • Each country has its own indigenous cultural tradition.每个国家都有自己本土的文化传统。
  • Indians were the indigenous inhabitants of America.印第安人是美洲的土著居民。
5 venue
n.犯罪地点,审判地,管辖地,发生地点,集合地点
  • The hall provided a venue for weddings and other functions.大厅给婚礼和其他社会活动提供了场所。
  • The chosen venue caused great controversy among the people.人们就审判地点的问题产生了极大的争议。
学英语单词
a bae
actinic rays
alamance
alcohol kali
annin
antipress
attenuable
Balamban
barrels
bellon
black knot
block grant system
Bulbophyllum brevipedunculatum
bungs
Burlescombe
capital intensive economy
capsulizing
caput (pl. capita)
celanese colours
chlorinated isocyanurates
cholesterohistechia
Cologn
conservatory measures in litigation
cool story bro
crust of the earth
Cungena
cycloctenids
Dangarābād
deflection potential meter
dictyotenes
diff-merge custom marker service
dika fat
direct data path
ducruet
egnell
electrochronographs
elutriation by air
Euphorbia hypericifolia
fatigue meter
fore-study
four silent-speed gearbox
fourpieces
French capital
FTTP
gadolinium addition
gain the majority
gerners
Glutasin
Heideck
hepaticolitbotripsy
Hercules press
hidden symbol
inter-family
isometry-invariant
keep measures with somone
Kistendey
lamp pH-meter
laying hens
low lying swamp land
lower mantle
lunar bar
menca
metallic cylinder
mixed nest
mud baffle
nontrespasser
of good cheer
ooblast
pack in dozens
pancake people
pexate resins
photocomposition
promotional budget
pulse-velocity measurement
put something out of one's mind
Qiangjian
quantum electronic frequency standard
reactive power converter
receiveable
reliability measurement test
ring dynamometer
rise in price
run-d.m.c
sample estimates
scrub nurses
self orthogonal block code
sixty-fourth rest
solid state spectrum
SPCI
stock room
tachometer stabilized system
tectonic element
the early stages of development of grasses
thermal bardness
traffic working volume
try one's hand at
unreusable
varitypes
VODACOM (voice data communication)
went at
wing less aircraft
Yulefest