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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Azaria Chamberlain's father says another inquest into her death could begin early next year. Northern Territory officials are preparing a new investigation 1. That's 30 years after the baby disappeared at Uluru.  This morning, Doctor Michael Chamberlain told ABC News Breakfast a 1995 inquest that handed down an open verdict was biased 2. He says the coroner refused to rule that a dingo took Azaria because he was protecting Northern Territory's interests in tourism.


A West Australian man who was tasered 13 times by police says he wasn't given the option of pressing charges against the officers. Security vision of the 2008 incident was released by the Corruption 3 and Crime Commission last week. Police say Kevin Spratt chose not to press charges and two officers involved in the incident were fined. But Mr. Spratt says he wants the officers stood down and charged with assault.


Serbian police have clashed with protesters who were trying to disrupt a Gay Pride parade in the capital, Belgrade. Police used tear gas against those rioters who threw petrol bombs and bricks at officers. At least 44 people were injured in that incident. It was the first Gay Pride parade in Serbia since a march in 2001 was broken up in violent clashes.


Emergency workers in Hungary are battling to contain toxic 4 sludge that swept across the country. Hungary's environment minister says the wall of a reservoir containing the waste is now on the brink 5 of collapse 6. Now if that dam leaks, it could release another half a million cubic meters of sludge into waterways. The spill has killed seven people and injured more than 100.



1 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
2 biased
a.有偏见的
  • a school biased towards music and art 一所偏重音乐和艺术的学校
  • The Methods: They employed were heavily biased in the gentry's favour. 他们采用的方法严重偏袒中上阶级。
3 corruption
n.腐败,堕落,贪污
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
4 toxic
adj.有毒的,因中毒引起的
  • The factory had accidentally released a quantity of toxic waste into the sea.这家工厂意外泄漏大量有毒废物到海中。
  • There is a risk that toxic chemicals might be blasted into the atmosphere.爆炸后有毒化学物质可能会进入大气层。
5 brink
n.(悬崖、河流等的)边缘,边沿
  • The tree grew on the brink of the cliff.那棵树生长在峭壁的边缘。
  • The two countries were poised on the brink of war.这两个国家处于交战的边缘。
6 collapse
vi.累倒;昏倒;倒塌;塌陷
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
学英语单词
absorbent bandage
Adinandra grandis
adviser
Amblytropis
angle of phase difference
antilabor legislation
artificial active immunization
axiomatization
b.p
Bakcharskoye Boloto
bitumen anticorrosive paint
blighty, Blighty
bollock naked
bow out with
by the hand
calculably
cerebral mycetism
chacne
Chinese folk religion
composite tolerance
dart union swivel
DC choke charging
Diploglossus
discreetly
dustlikest
estimated revenues
faulty machining
garage-door
gas sorption
genus gypsophilas
glaucomatic
glycol extraction
Good Middling Tinged
Great Bridgeford
Gundaroo bullock
Harl and
high administrative courts statistics
injection time relay
injury of urethra
Interleukin-1ra
inverted air current
Irrational Exuberance
irregular section
irrisions
Kaarta
La Vaca
Lonicera oiwakensis
maez
money channel
multifluid
Ndiago
needle-gun
non-fault
nonsignificant zero
nonsquare matrix
not do a thing
oilfield development and exploitation
pot plant
power ring
power science
pulse logic system
random sampling performance test
rational variety
redemption yield
rubus caesiuss
Russifies
sample sheet
sbats
security of contract obligations
shell bearing
shop parts
sine acceleration motion curve
single point mooring port
small-holding
soup dumpling
stone flower bed
stun-gun
sub-company
submerged joint
Sulcus glutealis
Suonenjoki
supernovas
systematic method
tariffication
tautoclin
telegraph terminal equipment
tennis-ball
tense logic language
theme-parks
theoclymenus
transmittal fee
tri-states
trunci lymphaceus dexter
two-way controlled transmission
unfrequent inquiry
unitarity
unsett
upper confining bed
upset diameter
vitreous table
witherine (witherite)
yeons