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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 Police in Colorado are waiting for the parents of Australian twins shot on a rifle range to arrive so they can identify them. One twin died, and the other is seriously injured, but police don't know which is which. Both were shot in the head at the same time. Police are still trying to work out what happened.


 
The Government and the Senate are at loggerheads over a business plan for the National Broadband Network. The Senate wants the plan released now before parliament breaks for the summer recess 1. But the Government is refusing. It says it's still working through the details and won't make it public until next month.
 
Parliament will vote on the Greens' gay marriage motion this morning. The motion calls on MPs to consult with their electorates 2 about same-sex marriage. The Government has decided 3 to support it and it's likely to get enough cross-bench support to pass.
 
Ireland is resisting European pressure to help bail 4 it out of its financial woes 5. European finance ministers have met to discuss how to stop the crisis from spreading to other vulnerable countries like Spain and Portugal. Ireland insists it can sort the problem out itself.
 
And Germany is on security alert after a tip-off about an impending 6 terrorist attack. Security at airports and train stations has been stepped up. The country's interior minister says he has evidence the terrorists are planning attacks for the end of the month.

1 recess
n.短期休息,壁凹(墙上装架子,柜子等凹处)
  • The chairman of the meeting announced a ten-minute recess.会议主席宣布休会10分钟。
  • Parliament was hastily recalled from recess.休会的议员被匆匆召回开会。
2 electorates
全体选民( electorate的名词复数 )
  • The assembly's 15 seats have electorates as small as 190. 大会的15个议席只有很少的190选民参加。
  • Restricting hedge funds is something they can sell to their electorates. 限制对冲基金是他们能够向选民兜售的东西。
3 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
4 bail
v.舀(水),保释;n.保证金,保释,保释人
  • One of the prisoner's friends offered to bail him out.犯人的一个朋友答应保释他出来。
  • She has been granted conditional bail.她被准予有条件保释。
5 woes
困境( woe的名词复数 ); 悲伤; 我好苦哇; 某人就要倒霉
  • Thanks for listening to my woes. 谢谢您听我诉说不幸的遭遇。
  • She has cried the blues about its financial woes. 对于经济的困难她叫苦不迭。
6 impending
a.imminent, about to come or happen
  • Against a background of impending famine, heavy fighting took place. 即将发生饥荒之时,严重的战乱爆发了。
  • The king convoke parliament to cope with the impending danger. 国王召开国会以应付迫近眉睫的危险。
学英语单词
AAGUS
advauncing
agenthood
antitraditionalism
apomixes
bartang r.
Beijing Geodetic Coordinate System 1954
biologic energy
blocked operation
BOL (beginning of life)
broadcast home
bunk covers
cesar chavezs
chronotron
Coast is clear
coilingly
crankum
CRW
cut-off valve
defence spending
detective time constant
dilacerating
dragon piece
Dueodde
ECLA
electriclpower station
elstein
equulites absconditus
etherising
Eurosam
external hemorrhoid
ferte
fish strainer
fishing bank
fore line
forward lead of the brushes
funds for fisheries
Greenwich mean noon
helping-hand phenomenon
Holtwood
homotaxia
hot and hot
how are you fixed for sth?
ingan
initial orders
integrated camera
interior escape stair
isolated phase bus bar
isolated sign
Jovian magnetopause
klammers
La Gloria
Latimeridae
leprosied
leukorrheal diseases
liriodendra
Lithcarb atmosphere
logging depot
love-egg
mariner project
Minalpha
mother wart
Mountain Lakes
NOC (network operation center)
nondimensional
number of magnetic flux inter linkage
oilnut
optical shutter
papaveraceous
Payong, Bukit
photoelectrical refrigeration
polyformate
prescribed value
pressure-main
printed substrate
psychiatric drugs
radioiodinated steroid
random schedule
red-lead putty
ridged beach plain
Rose-cold
semidarkened
silktails
single-particles
sound post
strobe memory
study-time
swastikas
tallow-tree
tallowing
the-writings
Tongoy
trans-regulator
trolley-jib tower crane
unmediatized
vitellogenins
water tight sluice door
welfare building
wet calender stack
window film
wine-based
working principle diagram