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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Nine Australians missing after a tsunami 1 off Indonesia's west coast have been found alive. At least 108 people have been killed and more than 500 are still missing after that earthquake triggered a tsunami, which hit Sumatra's remote Mentawai Islands. The Australians were on a surfing charter boat and headed to deeper waters where they felt the earthquake.


Peter Costello has launched the second blistering 2 attack on John Howard. In a piece written for Fairfax newspapers, Mr Costello accuses the former prime minister of failing the country and the Liberal Party by refusing to step down. The two men have traded blows about the publication of Mr Howard's new book Lazarus Rising.


Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano has erupted in central Java, killing 3 13 people. Rescuers say 12 people died from burns associated with that eruption 4. Earlier a three-month-old baby died after inhaling 5 ash. Up to 20,000 residents living near the volcano have been ordered to evacuate 6 the area.


One of Saddam Hussein's most senior officials Tariq Aziz has been sentenced to death. Iraqi supreme 7 criminal court found the former deputy prime minister guilty of the persecution 8 of Islamic parties. The charges relate to a crackdown on Iraq’s Shia majority after a 1991 uprising against Saddam Hussein.


And Paul the octopus 9, who shot to fame by correctly predicting the outcome of this year's World Cup, has died. Officials at a German aquarium 10 discovered the octopus dead in his tank, and they believe he died of natural causes.



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 blistering
adj.酷热的;猛烈的;使起疱的;可恶的v.起水疱;起气泡;使受暴晒n.[涂料] 起泡
  • The runners set off at a blistering pace. 赛跑运动员如脱缰野马般起跑了。
  • This failure is known as preferential wetting and is responsible for blistering. 这种故障称为优先吸湿,是产生气泡的原因。 来自辞典例句
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 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。
5 inhaling
v.吸入( inhale的现在分词 )
  • He was treated for the effects of inhaling smoke. 他因吸入烟尘而接受治疗。 来自辞典例句
  • The long-term effects of inhaling contaminated air is unknown. 长期吸入被污染空气的影响还无从知晓。 来自互联网
6 evacuate
v.遣送;搬空;抽出;排泄;大(小)便
  • We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵!
  • They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
7 supreme
adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的
  • It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
8 persecution
n. 迫害,烦扰
  • He had fled from France at the time of the persecution. 他在大迫害时期逃离了法国。
  • Their persecution only serves to arouse the opposition of the people. 他们的迫害只激起人民对他们的反抗。
9 octopus
n.章鱼
  • He experienced nausea after eating octopus.吃了章鱼后他感到恶心。
  • One octopus has eight tentacles.一条章鱼有八根触角。
10 aquarium
n.水族馆,养鱼池,玻璃缸
  • The first time I saw seals was in an aquarium.我第一次看见海豹是在水族馆里。
  • I'm going to the aquarium with my parents this Sunday.这个星期天,我要和父母一起到水族馆去。
学英语单词
adiaemorrhysis
adoretus formosanus
all-metal body
all-you-can
amselem
barbecue stoppers
bark-
barometric efficiency
behave like a hog
berlese funnel method
bicuspidata
birch forest
blaze the path
Borensberg
bowl-shapeds
Bridgtown
budget transfer
buoyancy frequency
cascade hypothesis
clerklier
coveries
critical functions
curtiss-wright
custumaries
damageful
Darwin's nothura
data models
direct sum of finite groups
Douglas Classification of Wave
dressed stone pavement
estimated regression line
extraordinary high tide
fouge
gas-discharge tube
geohydrologic unit
gesinae
glow-plugs
ground water geochemistry
heheaded stream
Heligmosomatoidea
IFAM
in partibus
infurcation
intervention rate
it's not worth it
kuruma shrimp
larimore
lidless
liner flange
magnetic read/write head
marking of transportation
MR-DSA
multi nozzle
MVR-PCR
nansei-shoto (ryukyu is.)
no-go theorem
noncryptographic
nonferrous materials
nucleic acid probe
occipito-axial ligaments
organ-pipes
overhung pulley fan
oversampling converters
ovoimplantation
Papaver
Pativilca, R.
plasma bottle
plausibler
points classifications
ppt, ppt.
pre-logic
prelisting
pressurization by nitrogen gas
printed wiring
pyrimidine base
rantize
redetected
reduction variable
reinforced shell fuselage
retarmacking
ribes acuminatum wall
rotatory current
semiseparbility
sheepfoot roller
sintered body
smyd
solanesyl
sphenisciform seabird
spindle-cell
streaking thread
T cell replacingfactor
tectarias
tendency profile
tendon-longthening
terranes
troides magellanus sonani
turbulent shear stresses
utl
vapidest
waste meter
white swallowwort
whitsum