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。
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absolus
addenda
administration of trade regulations
amanpour
American Party
asynchronous multiplexer
balladine (france)
be good friends
beet-drill
Boolean condition
bovine pest
Braine
branchier
bruzio
bulb planter
Business Process Execution Language
calipees
calyculatus
carbonbearing
catch at shadows
chain-drive motorcycle
chloro-acetyl chloride
class fragmentation
cold creep
cometary dynamics
croume
cyanofenphos
data-flows
dipicryl sulfide
divemaster
enervoxe
equal time point (etp)
equally likely events
equivalent expansive grammar
evaporative crystallizer
fibre-spinning process
goes at
guard method
huzzie
intermedius meso
jupiter pluviuss
key way
La Bruffière
lift shaft
long player
macintosh clone
magneto strictive drill
methanobactins
micropenetrometer
mixed medium-sized coal
nasal irrigation
Neolitsea aurata var. undulatula
niederland
nonrepayable
nonrunner
nordihydrocodeinone
nqb
one's money's-worth
Orhaneli
over-trusty
parasitic chain
Pater, Walter Horatio
pernick'etiness
phonemes-voice synthesizer
pneumonic plagues
procurement card
propeller-jet engine
pseudovector
put into practice freezing method
railroad through
Randia racemosa
reader code
refining steel
registering (wind) vane
remasticated
rheophiles
ring throstle
root pain
saddle-trees
satellite technical and operational committee
say uncle
scaph-
self working
shell expansion plan
specification pointer
spray line nozzle
steppin' out
subordinationism
sweetishly
system elements
systems software
three dimensional fundamental form
timed separation
trautenau
true sparrows
tuffaceous shale
universal starching and drying machine
up-and-down indicator
wade through sth
warm runner mould
xyluketose-1-phosphate
yearly weather