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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The European Aviation Safety Authority issued a warning in August about Rolls-Royce engines used in some A380 planes, saying that they were potentially unsafe. Now it's not known whether that warning was acted upon, but engine maker 1 Rolls-Royce says it's inspecting now all 20 A380 planes currently in service with Singapore Airlines, Qantas and Lufthansa.


In Western Australia, around 700 people last night attended a meeting in Northam to protest against the plan to house asylum 2 seekers in the town. The Federal Government wants to use a disused army camp on the town's outskirts 3 to detain 1,500 male asylum seekers there.


France's interior minister has revealed that a parcel bomb headed for the United States was just 17 minutes from detonating when it was defused. It was one of two bombs hidden in computer printer cartridges 4 on flights out of Yemen.


Three Sri Lankan asylum seekers involved in a riot on Christmas Island a year ago have avoided jail. Dozens of people were injured when up to 200 detainees rioted, armed with broom handles, pool cues and tree branches. Five men were charged in relation to the event. Two have been acquitted 5. The others have been placed on good behavior bonds.


And Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano continues to cause havoc 6. The latest eruption 7 is the largest yet and has killed six people. Forty-four people have now died in the eruptions 8.



1 maker
n.制造者,制造商
  • He is a trouble maker,You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼,你不要跟他在一起。
  • A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。
2 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。
3 outskirts
n.郊外,郊区
  • Our car broke down on the outskirts of the city.我们的汽车在市郊出了故障。
  • They mostly live on the outskirts of a town.他们大多住在近郊。
4 cartridges
子弹( cartridge的名词复数 ); (打印机的)墨盒; 录音带盒; (唱机的)唱头
  • computer consumables such as disks and printer cartridges 如磁盘、打印机墨盒之类的电脑耗材
  • My new video game player came with three game cartridges included. 我的新电子游戏机附有三盘游戏带。
5 acquitted
宣判…无罪( acquit的过去式和过去分词 ); 使(自己)作出某种表现
  • The jury acquitted him of murder. 陪审团裁决他谋杀罪不成立。
  • Five months ago she was acquitted on a shoplifting charge. 五个月前她被宣判未犯入店行窃罪。
6 havoc
n.大破坏,浩劫,大混乱,大杂乱
  • The earthquake wreaked havoc on the city.地震对这个城市造成了大破坏。
  • This concentration of airborne firepower wrought havoc with the enemy forces.这次机载火力的集中攻击给敌军造成很大破坏。
7 eruption
n.火山爆发;(战争等)爆发;(疾病等)发作
  • The temple was destroyed in the violent eruption of 1470 BC.庙宇在公元前1470年猛烈的火山爆发中摧毁了。
  • The eruption of a volcano is spontaneous.火山的爆发是自发的。
8 eruptions
n.喷发,爆发( eruption的名词复数 )
  • There have been several volcanic eruptions this year. 今年火山爆发了好几次。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Over 200 people have been killed by volcanic eruptions. 火山喷发已导致200多人丧生。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
acid dip
angular Larmor frequency
anti-explosion distribution equipment
be crazy for
benase
bernarr
bioarcheologists
birsana (barsana)
branch table
brichardis
buffleheads
Calcotephroite
cannabinols
carcase clamp
CEDA
chicken liver
chord of the six five
civil commotions
clinched connection
come to harm
commisser
cuneate tail
current gold and silvercoin
Defense Intelligence Agency
deferral tax
Dermovate
disassociation
domesday book
Donon, Col du Le
door guide wheel
eryopids
exerciserenogram
exocolitis
extension field
ferro molybdenum
francy
genus Dialeurodes
genus helotiums
give yourself a pat on the back
hand time
Hiberno-Celtic
house cleaner
interfurca
ionosphere error
isotropic body
knockbacks
knotted sheepshank
light regulator
load range of boiler
lock of metal for vehicle
lophine
marine tactical system
Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso (Emilio)
mechanotherapeutic
methyl viologen
mistiming
moisture resisting agent
multiple Fourier transform
mutual solubility
nonvector
oil-resistant shoe
organic superconducting resonator
organizational control
pictorial writing
popular scanning electron microscope
prasterone
preconcentrate
proprietor's stake
proto-science fiction
pulse polarity selector
quarg
quiescent power drain
rational system
rigid classification
sampling oscilloscope
satelite communication terminal
schubacks
scrollable field
seagoing vessel
selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
semidifferentiated race
simcox
simplicifusus graciliformis
sinuses jugularis
Smale's paradox
staufer
stonked
succession of shoots
sudden short-circuit current
terpenic
the hell out of
thermonuclear war
thurm
traffic (tfc)
trialkyl
triarctic
trigoneutic
unbalanced
unhelms
Viburnum pyramidatum
wear resisting property
zip-loc