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
abrasion strength
an-fol A
analog semicustom
APR III
arylhydrazine
Bartramia longicauda
be possessed of
biserial correlation
brilliant acid blue nas
Brisbane Water
Bromovalcarbamide
callicebuss
Cancri
castelnuovo-tedesco
clusterization
commelinidaes
completed circuit
concoagulate
container load weight
decanoylacetaldehyde sodium hydrosulfite
direct system
double-precision aithmetic
electrophonically
eliminating trouble some weeds
evolutionary operation cycle
exact location
first-divisions
flash coil
fluor-apatite (fap)
fluorescent light trap
food additives
give a start
groupage freight
helm kick
hemisphaeria
higher-order attenuation
hypotrichosis
I'm not unaware the...
inaugural ceremony
inversions
jazz-house
Khokhol'skiy Rayon
Kilwa Kisiwani
King of Terrors
labyrinth packing
lamellar membrane
law of extreme light path
LIRBM
market member
McColl protective system
nonequilibrium technique
nonremittals
open-type condensate return system
oxyhalogen
partial-wave cross-section
people's army
perfecting bail
pneumatically-sensed
polycrystalline oxide ceramics
polystichum scopulinums
pressure main
pro-West
pseudochromids
Rabl-orientation
re-surveillance
read-write head
regression relation
robobird
rodi
screen editor
section valve
self selection
shilling's-worth
side-screw bow instrument
sing for one's supper
spittoons
spurners
star grid
stockpile loading
superpurity metal
Supirdyl
supply routing or operation list
tan-yards
Theognostus Of Alexandria
total energy flux
tractellum
tri-motored
tuberculous pyothorax
unclimbable
undirectly
unit strain
urea nitrogen
Urostylidae
USIT
vacuum pumps
variable inductance type
venew
vespids
villomas
wave pressure diagram
weddell seas
wheel column control