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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Fifty-two people are now known to have died during an operation to free worshippers held by gunmen inside a Baghdad church. One hundred and twenty people were held in the Catholic church for at least four hours. When Iraqi security forces stormed the building, more than 50 people were killed and dozens more injured. Despite the casualties, the Iraqi defence minister described the operation as a success.


UK officials say the tip-off about parcel bombs being on two US-bound cargo 1 planes came from a repentant 2 al-Qaeda member. Officials have told the BBC a former Guantanamo Bay detainee handed himself into Saudi Arabian authorities two weeks ago. After leaving Guantanamo, he went through a rehabilitation 3 program in Saudi Arabia, then rejoined al-Qaeda in Yemen before turning himself into authorities.


The UN says Australia has resettled just ten per cent of the refugees it had committed to take from Indonesia. Australia agreed to boost its intake 4 of Indonesian asylum 5 seekers from around 50 to 500 early this year. But Jakarta office of the UNHCR says so far it has recommended 528 refugees for resettlement, but only 52 have so far gone to Australia. The Government is declining to comment on the shortfall.


The Government says it’s prepared to consider an extension of the time to finalise the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. The Basin Authority is holding consultation 6 meetings about its initial proposal. A draft plan is due early next year and a final plan is due by the end of that year.



1 cargo
n.(一只船或一架飞机运载的)货物
  • The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.这条船大约有200吨的货物。
  • A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.许多人从船上卸下货物。
2 repentant
adj.对…感到悔恨的
  • He was repentant when he saw what he'd done.他看到自己的作为,心里悔恨。
  • I'll be meek under their coldness and repentant of my evil ways.我愿意乖乖地忍受她们的奚落,忏悔我过去的恶行。
3 rehabilitation
n.康复,悔过自新,修复,复兴,复职,复位
  • He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
  • No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。
4 intake
n.吸入,纳入;进气口,入口
  • Reduce your salt intake.减少盐的摄入量。
  • There was a horrified intake of breath from every child.所有的孩子都害怕地倒抽了一口凉气。
5 asylum
n.避难所,庇护所,避难
  • The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
  • Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。
6 consultation
n.咨询;商量;商议;会议
  • The company has promised wide consultation on its expansion plans.该公司允诺就其扩展计划广泛征求意见。
  • The scheme was developed in close consultation with the local community.该计划是在同当地社区密切磋商中逐渐形成的。
学英语单词
adreno-lumbar vein
agamous
aneroidometer
approach spans
attitude adjustment
autokinetic phenomenon
bahn
beyond all
blastocyst cavity
blocking oscillator transformer
braggings
Brunskill
carbon internals
Carrion's disease
chambersite
channel id
crosslegged
diapriids
diego martin
El Bosque
electric locomotive with computer
etched mirror (reflector)
expenses paid in advance
fall dust
faulty casting
fixed bridge prosthesis
floor type gantry boring and milling machine
geomagnetic activity
graffitilike
harpist
haul down
have another guess coming
holistic medicine
hurdle type washer
hyodeoxycholaneresis
internal audit division
invalid page time-sharing
joint defence
kasatonov
kyrim
Mannville
mechanical resonator
microstress
militant society
mobile camera
modulation demodulation system
Mont-St-Martin
motionate
multinational financing
Nkurenkuru
nonchoices
on their own
order close-out selection
over sight
palm wax
Peliosanthes
petewilliamsite
photosensitive relay
placental fold
polyester union gingham
polylecithal
postcyclodialysis
postsex
preserving melon
proportional numbers
rallytable
recheats
rectification ratio
reference surface diameter tolerance
ripplet
rotating guide vane
Sarvestān
scale eyepiece
sectio perinealis
side folding hatch cover
single bed filter
soybean export promotion
spiegle iron
spray cone offset angle
stability of towed body
staffexchanger
steering-gear worm
submucosal myoma of uterus
swanflower
symmetrical matrix
technical schedule
temporary data
Tha, Nam
tin-coated wire
troposphere reflection
tubulovillous
twin-screw feeder
universal process
ventral turret
Vingrau
Warren's fat columns
werking
wheel web
wide flange section
wiggle trace
Zund-Burguet treatment