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
accosta
after arrival of goods draft
aliwals
apparent rediometric magnitude
automatic titrator
basal mental age
be nothing to do with
begannest
bias off
binary experiment
Bogodukhov
broadcasts
bulbotuber
busy period distribution
capacities
chelsis
cockcrow
cold-charged ingot
common American shad
container gantry crane
content window
Cotrefon
Cyperus flavidus
defect sporadic
delorean
dense chain
desoxidation
detergent for household use
dickfests
discrimination reaction
Distributed COM
dividing strip for terrazzo
early ectoblastic cavity
Ecodipin
elimination tournaments
error of account
escaped species
evaluation technique
fog proof insulator
frightener
fuundament
Glen Massey
guanidium
have a problem
hiccough nuts
hoswell
in someone's debt
innocent blood
intratribal
larielle
lay a finger on sb
Lenard tubes
lump-sum method
malifolius
mattice
methyl ricinoleate
methylscopolamine
Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge
microglitch
mine run ore
monodramatic
multicapacity process
Nailwort
neotraditionalism
non-nuclear effect
nonrepayable
off-white
pages out
pankow
Parkertown
peccants
phase, two
pre-straining
private tap
qam (quadrature amplitude modulation )
quadratureaxis
rated thrust
regulatory enzyme
Rhus coriaria
romanoscope
runner's diarrhea
self-standings
short-term
site intensity
soda-pop wine
soft pedals
spans
steeped labyrinth seal
stoplessly
sump lubrication
tantalum condenser
tetanurans
the goats
titrigraph
to the uttermost of one's power
tuning handle
Tysday
ultrared heating
Urotrate
vegetable albumin
yellowish sweating
zarqas