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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The bodies of eight soldiers killed in one of Britain’s deadliest days in Afghanistan have been repatriated 1. Thousands of mourners lined the streets of Wootton Bassett as flag-draped hearses made their way to a hospital morgue. The small English market town has become the focus of national mourning.


The former Liberian President Charles Taylor has denied war crime charges against him during his trial at The Hague. He is accused of directing rebel groups from Liberia to seize control of Sierra Leone’s diamond mines. The 61-year-old is charged with murder, terrorism, rape 2 and torture of thousands of civilians 3 in Sierra Leone.


Two French officials have been kidnapped in Somalia. The French Foreign Ministry 4 says the men were on an official mission when they were abducted 5 by a group of armed men. They were taken from their hotel in the government-held part of the capital Mogadishu.


North Korea has released new pictures of leader Kim Jong-Il, a day after it was reported that he had pancreatic cancer. The pictures of visits to factories, farms and military bases are being seen as an attempt to convey a sense of normalcy in the Stalinist state.


And France celebrated 6 Bastille Day with a military parade down the Champs-Elysées, and fireworks at the Eiffel Tower. The annual holiday marks the storming of the Bastille prison and sparks the French Revolution.


And that’s ABC World News.



1 repatriated
v.把(某人)遣送回国,遣返( repatriate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The refugees were forcibly repatriated. 难民被强制遣送回国。
  • Ancient artworks were repatriated from the US to Greece. 古代艺术品从美国遣送回希腊。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 rape
n.抢夺,掠夺,强奸;vt.掠夺,抢夺,强奸
  • The rape of the countryside had a profound ravage on them.对乡村的掠夺给他们造成严重创伤。
  • He was brought to court and charged with rape.他被带到法庭并被指控犯有强奸罪。
3 civilians
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
4 ministry
n.(政府的)部;牧师
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
5 abducted
劫持,诱拐( abduct的过去式和过去分词 ); 使(肢体等)外展
  • Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
  • The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。
6 celebrated
adj.有名的,声誉卓著的
  • He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
  • The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。
学英语单词
absolute efficiency
acute retinal necrosis
air priorities committee
andrei gromykoes
antioxidating
Ascelichthys
automation of converter
avlocardyl
badaud
bicipites
billistic missile
biodiversity informatics
bitter cardamon
cadesse
carboloy holder
Carregado
chronite
cinobufatalin
clinkstones
conic without center
corundum-syenite
Crookes
crosslink scission
Crotalidae
crystallizable
Cystagon
distilled vinegar
dizziness and vertigo
dodecane dicarboxylic acid
double invasion
dowelled tongue and groove joint
emergency power source
empathizer
equation rate
fanvid
freebooters
gasket cement
geekiest
go in for forming
good morrow
Hamma el Djérid
health massage for eyes
HPCS (high pressure core spray system)
HSMD
information frame
inmouled
insaniate
izzards
kinked joint
lateral inhomogeneity
lead cable borer
locate a fault (trouble)
log trailer
Magnoliastrum
military missions
military restricted area
missile electronics and computer assembly
mobula formosana
nativealbumin
nonroutine functions
nonsaturated circuit
nuclei air bubble
numbered access
nymphomanics
obfuscating
Obraje
on-line data entry
padded-back linings
paillet
pairing-ups
parraling
per-share
phase-to-phase spacer
photolectric register control
piteira fibre
pratique
prosyllogisms
purpurinid
quomodo
radious
reactive armour
read-only operation
Salome
SBG
screen riddle
sollicitudoes
steam valve body
suck blood
Tahoe, L.
take the mickey out of someone
tap volume
tie-dyed
tolkein
tunica propria (tubuli seminiferi)
twenty-foot equivalent unit
twinhood
underwater irradiance meter
valonia utricularis
vectorial triangle
verodigen
wind tunnel free flight test
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