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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Defence ties in Afghanistan will be under discussion on Hillary Clinton's final day of her Australian visit. The US secretary of state and the Defence Secretary Robert Gates will meet their Australian counterparts Kevin Rudd and Steven Smith this morning.


Voters in Burma have responded to an opposition 1 call to boycott 2 the first elections there in two decades. Turnout in some areas was reportedly as low as 35 per cent. Democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition refused to take part in the poll, calling it a shame.


And there are reports around this morning of problems with three more of the engines on Qantas planes. Two have been removed from the wings for closer inspection 3. Qantas won't say what the problems are, but it is bad news for thousands of passengers stranded 4 as the airline reorganises schedules after problems with the A380.


The Australian Securities and Investments Commission will be given the power to prosecute 5 banks that try to profit from exit fees. This is part of the Government's financial law reforms that will be announced later this week. The banks charge customers up to $900 to switch their home loans. But there are reports this morning that at least some of the Big Four are said to dump the fees.


Barack Obama isn't satisfied with the pace of Pakistan's fight against terrorism inside its borders. Speaking on the second day of his Indian visit, the US president says progress isn't as quick as he would like. Many Indians aren't happy that the US continues to supply weapons to Pakistan. But the president is defending his policy, saying America is working with Pakistan's government to stamp out extremism.



1 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。
2 boycott
n./v.(联合)抵制,拒绝参与
  • We put the production under a boycott.我们联合抵制该商品。
  • The boycott lasts a year until the Victoria board permitsreturn.这个抗争持续了一年直到维多利亚教育局妥协为止。
3 inspection
n.检查,审查,检阅
  • On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查,发现肉变质了。
  • The soldiers lined up for their daily inspection by their officers.士兵们列队接受军官的日常检阅。
4 stranded
a.搁浅的,进退两难的
  • He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里, 身无分文,一筹莫展。
  • I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市,既没有钱,又没有朋友。
5 prosecute
vt.告发;进行;vi.告发,起诉,作检察官
  • I am trying my best to prosecute my duties.我正在尽力履行我的职责。
  • Is there enough evidence to prosecute?有没有起诉的足够证据?
学英语单词
a baptism of fire
A-bracket
acceleration stage
additional collateral
all-optic communication network
Amati Family
anatomic(al)
angle recoprocating compressor
antipreferential
antisurgical
befreed
board-level
bobbin bit
Boitzmann superposition principle
break of load
cadmium mercury
caffers
canine tooth
chun purple
CL leads
colliquative softe
colonial preferential duty
completely linear metric space
concertina fold
confined charge
cooperating agency
cunned
cut-out pedal
daily wagon requisition plan
decision support systems
decohering
demonomancy
Dischidia tonkinensis
dismiss
double-benched
emergency chiller
erysiphaless
federal type of cooperative
ferric trichloride
field of plane on manifold
foreign substance
fractional entitlements
fuze action
gourd vegetable
hadera
Harbour Dues on Cargo
Horace Greeley
hot insulation resistance
hunter/killer operations
intrical
lateral secretion theory
Logan slabbing machine
Malechowo
malony
mass game
merlis
metal hot dipping
monosomatic
Nahnsen zinc process
neboes
new-land
nightcaps
offshore navigation
overconsumes
papill? renales
photoconductive lag
phss
plain fixing bath
platinized
politics of cooptation
popelote
popych
print drier
proboscideous
protein denaturation
pulse-type transducer
rail bonding drill
retroduodenal fossae
ring type joint face flanged
saframycin
scal-of-two multivibrator
schlager
self-chambering
shatter index
silicates
sisleys
sleeper coach
sliding stay
software reconfiguration
sort work file
spark polishing
special privilege
sulphamidic acid
sure bet
sweating out
tag-question
terms of an agreement
the virgins
ventilating coaming
VIp-36
vomitoxin
wagon-head