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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 It's a disappointing day for Australian soccer fans. Australia's bid to host the 2022 World Cup soccer tournament has been unsuccessful. The Gulf 1 state of Qatar has been awarded the tournament after a secret ballot 2 of FIFA's executive members. Russia has been chosen to host the 2018 tournament, beating the favourite there -- England. 


 
At least 40 people have been killed by a forest fire that's been raging out of control near the northern Israeli city of Haifa. The dead are all believed to be prison guards who are on a bus caught in the inferno 3. Hundreds of people have been evacuated 4 from the Carmel Mountains. 
 
Swedish authorities have issued a fresh arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder 5 Julian Assange. A procedural error with the first warrant meant it couldn't be applied 6 in Britain, where Mr Assange is believed to be living. The detention 7 order concerns alleged 8 sexual crimes during a visit to Sweden in August. Mr Assange has not been charged, and he denies the allegations.
 
The former Prime Minister Paul Keating is urging the Government to speed up its plan to boost superannuation savings 9. The Government wants to use revenue from its mining tax to lift the super rate from 9 to 12 per cent by 2019. 
 
And Australia's largest poultry 10 manufacturer, Baiada, has been cited by WorkSafe Victoria for the death of a worker. In August, 34-year-old Sarel Singh was killed while cleaning fast-moving machinery 11. A report into the death found Baiada breached 12 occupational health and safety laws by not controlling risks at the plant. 

1 gulf
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
2 ballot
n.(不记名)投票,投票总数,投票权;vi.投票
  • The members have demanded a ballot.会员们要求投票表决。
  • The union said they will ballot members on whether to strike.工会称他们将要求会员投票表决是否罢工。
3 inferno
n.火海;地狱般的场所
  • Rescue workers fought to get to victims inside the inferno.救援人员奋力营救大火中的受害者。
  • The burning building became an inferno.燃烧着的大楼成了地狱般的地方。
4 evacuated
撤退者的
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
5 Founder
n.创始者,缔造者
  • He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
  • According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说,罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。
6 applied
adj.应用的;v.应用,适用
  • She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
  • This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。
7 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。
8 alleged
a.被指控的,嫌疑的
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
9 savings
n.存款,储蓄
  • I can't afford the vacation,for it would eat up my savings.我度不起假,那样会把我的积蓄用光的。
  • By this time he had used up all his savings.到这时,他的存款已全部用完。
10 poultry
n.家禽,禽肉
  • There is not much poultry in the shops. 商店里禽肉不太多。
  • What do you feed the poultry on? 你们用什么饲料喂养家禽?
11 machinery
n.(总称)机械,机器;机构
  • Has the machinery been put up ready for the broadcast?广播器材安装完毕了吗?
  • Machinery ought to be well maintained all the time.机器应该随时注意维护。
12 breached
攻破( breach的现在分词 ); 破坏,违反
  • These commitments have already been breached. 这些承诺已遭背弃。
  • Our tanks have breached the enemy defences. 我方坦克车突破了敌人的防线。
学英语单词
actual wear test
alternation condition
amyloid rings
anglophilic
antievolutionist
arbitrage pricing theories
axillary lymph sac
blown-film extrusion
blue elders
bung off
castel di judica
centre drawer hinge
cephalotripsies
ch'eng-tu
chanoine dam
cry over spilt milk
Da Ponte
dead steel
demonry
discharge of opinion
Dow-Jones utilities average index
eindhovens
energy-price
equilibrium carriers
evaporator blower
ezers
fee interest
fiat justitia, ruat caelum
field-sequential system
free-hand grafting knife
fringe surface
furfurylmercaptan
hair spring divider
haptophoric
hollow acrylic bulb
huminxiang
induced apomixis
isometric-drawing
john-william
Kermodism
labidocera minuta
live oil occurrences
logs out
luigi
Machilus chienkweiensis
material wastage rate
maternal-line selection
megapodiids
milk transport bin
mixflow type GM-blower
news film
Novokanstant resistance alloy
optical fiber interconnections
ordanchite
palped
peradeniya
phlebostrepsis
phus-pull amplification
pigmented compound
Pleurobronchopneumonia
previous mode
Primulina
Protea mellifera
radial compression separation system
raise the siege of
raw material intensive production
reduced correlation matrix
repechages
ripe cotton
risk management system
ritcher
rupatta
Saint Helens
Salvator
scale-borer
schiralli
schr?dinger wave function
sealing mortar
session virtualization
shansu
short supply
skintled brick work
spilling surge chamber
sponging agent
statistical tolerance analysis
stenotrophomonas maltophilia
switch calculations
target image generator
thyriothecia
toothsomer
Umedpur
unavailable nutrients (in soil)
unsinkable lifeboat
updating forecast
urcs
USGRR
Verticillatae
waveguide taper
wedding dresses
wizs
wpn
yellowtails