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 number of people killed in the tsunami 1 off west Sumatra is expected to climb to more than 500. Officials in the Mentawai Islands are finding more victims of the tsunami that struck on Monday night. Three hundred and forty people so far are confirmed dead. Aerial surveys, however, have revealed many more corpses 2.


Also in Indonesia, a volcano in central Java has erupted again, spewing ash and hot gas into the air. The Mount Merapi volcano has already erupted several times this week, killing 3 32 people. More than 50,000 people have been moved to temporary shelters outside the danger zone.


The Federal Opposition 4 leader says Labor 5’s failing to live up to its aim of being a reforming government. Delivering the annual Alfred Deakin Lecture in Melbourne last night, Tony Abbott argued Labor’s confusing reform with big spending. He says Labor’s $43 billion broadband policy actually stifles 6 competition.


The New South Wales Keneally Government is the least popular Labor government in Australian history, according to the latest Newspoll. The poll shows support for the party has dropped to just 23 per cent. Support for the state Opposition is double that at 46 per cent.


The Prime Minister Julia Gillard will arrive in Vietnam today for the East Asia Summit. Ms Gillard says she’ll use the summit to raise Australia’s strong concern about human rights in Burma. The PM will then visit Indonesia. She says any representations she makes on behalf of Schapelle Corby and the Bali Nine will be done in private.



1 tsunami
n.海啸
  • Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
  • Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。
2 corpses
n.死尸,尸体( corpse的名词复数 )
  • The living soldiers put corpses together and burned them. 活着的战士把尸体放在一起烧了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Overhead, grayish-white clouds covered the sky, piling up heavily like decaying corpses. 天上罩满了灰白的薄云,同腐烂的尸体似的沉沉的盖在那里。 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说
3 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
4 opposition
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
5 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
6 stifles
(使)窒息, (使)窒闷( stifle的第三人称单数 ); 镇压,遏制
  • This stifles the development of the financial sector. 这就遏制了金融部门的发展。
  • The fruits of such a system are a glittering consumer society which stifles creativity and individuality. 这种制度的结果就是一个压制创造性和个性的闪光的消费者社会。
学英语单词
Acrobat Distiller
affect spasms
arylesterase
atomic absorption spectrum
australian floral kingdom
averaging AGC
BAAM
backup data
Barrancas, Pta.
be dirty
beat around the bush
begannas
biological luminescence
block triangulation
camarca
cardioid condenser
chip grinder
chrysochalk alloy
condensator
contraposition
correlation interferometer
dactylopteridaes
dead white European males
defence product
Direction, C.
dispatching center
Dog returns to its vomit.
dual leadership
electric tie tamper
elescophe
ergasia
eudolium lineatum
existing subsystem
extratropical
extruding unit
facility field
foreign exchange reserve
freshwater limestone
fusiform antenna
gearbox main drive shaft
General Pico
germarite
gravitational exploration
head-word
inappeasable
independent heterodyne oscillator
indolebutyric acids
infrabar
judge advocates
karst planation surface
Khaty
ledgering
median monthly runoff
Memmingen
mightlihood
moneyand
Moorfleet
more than a match for
multivalued accretive operator
mythologues
n-ethyl phenylamine
natural draft wet cooling tower
Neoveitchia
onobaio
open magnetic circuit
oregon country
ossmodula
ostensively
out of contact with
passivises
Peplolite
planned profit
platelet cells
predniretard
preferential rate deposit
prepossessions
pro-circer
punchdown block
quiltmaking
recarbonise
reedville
self oscillator
selling on floating terms
separation allowance
shattered zone
star track
Stenographer-typist
Sufetula
suprarenal body
tails lose
Threadtail
tight sand
tissue cell
trussed steel joist
Uffelmann's test
variable-speed input
Vila Pinto Teixeira
Virtual Machine Manager
voltage-to-current converter
volumetric(al)
Williams, Ralph Vaughan
workout clothes