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
Achterveld
air risk clause
at the right moment
Atelium
audit sampling method
bit transfer rate
branchial chamber
cement by gases
computed path control
contracted basis
copper(ii) dimethyldithiocarbamate
corrective gymnastics
desertin'
designer babies
designer stubble
Deutzia muliensis
diffractive lens
English unit
environmental torques
equiproportionality
exclusion boundary
executive-size paper
external recirculation boiling reactor
first crack strain
free from
freeze and thawing method
freight liners
fuji-san (fuji-yama)
full port
fused solenoid power circuit
genus Gerris
giulianovas
guisard
gun fire-control radar
highly matched
hoisting crab
homoioptota
hypoacusis
imperial standard wire ga(u)ge
inquiry language
insulae
jap clovers
Kirané
La Guardia
let sth into sth
ligament fundiforme penis
local initiative
medullary sarcoma
menages a trois
metaphonically
meteorotropic disease
Mezzogiorno
Nemda
no lond cut-out
non-coherent synchrotron radiation
nonthing
offset luminance
one-line octave
oven-safe
Pearl and Hermes Atoll
pentoxyverine citrate
plate type fertilizer distributor
polygonine
polystichum piceopaleaceum
potentiometertype rheostat
problem of information and decision analysis
profit and loss of previous year
Quebrada Fracture Zone
reef rash
rodgered
runround
sable antelope
schne
semimeans
Shlisselburg
shortin'
sirly
Smith, John
space-reception diversity
spacegirl
spb
specific binding energy
spectral power
static print-out
structural color
sugarier
super-users
system of internal control
tail joist
temperature of nil-ductility transition
three-way electrochromatography
total torque exerted by the tool
town-halls
transparentizes
turnovoes
tweetie
un-British
unicellular fibre
uronoscopy
winter barley
yellow fruit
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