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
a happy family
Agostilben
air-to-air (a/a)
ALA-D
Albinus's muscle
ALGOL-like rule
aluminum silicate pneumoconiosis
band spread
Barolong Dist.
Barrier I.
bastani
bhabha cross-section
bidirectional diode thyristor
black-rock
blink signal
blue-capped ifrit
broadnosed
Bullock's oriole
camaena friesiana
cocoon effect
commandless
control mode equipment
crissy
cross-hairs illuminating attachment
dance-forms
decision for context free grammar
double conductor cord
dufrenite
duplex pressure gage
economic structure reform
educational administrator
Eisenhower
eosinophilic lymphofolliculosis of the skin
essential work of fracture
eternia
feedmagazine
financing commission
flow disrupter
flowing tide
foreplanned
fuckoff o'clock
furfuryl alcohol silicate ester resin
g.y
Hoyo-shoto
inayat
intercomparisons
intimated
intraural
ionosphere radiation biophysics
keep sth down
low valve gate circuit
machine information retrieval
malfunction routines
man-machine software interface
maxillolabial
mediate possession
mighties
mirror autocollimator
mirror telescope
mutton quad
neburon
new-hires
Niederbrechen
nontransfected
normal subgroups
ofter
on the bright side of
one hitter
OQH
ostanek
Phys. Ed.
pleonastics
post-entry
priming mixture
prohead
puss out
registration of commons
rotchie
SARFU
Sattagydia
schedule repairs
severino
sizilianit (celestine)
sko
slow direction
spherical involute teeth
spring-operated stripper
stereo-
timing lever
top fluid
transcendality
transmitting element
trick work
ultraviolet-erasable
unitary price
unseeable
war aim
washer thermistor
Werdnig
x - ray spectrometry
year acquired
Zwemer's test