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
abbreviated installation
accordion theory
adenomatoid polyp
afpol
agalope formosana
Ateriovinca
atmosphere dust
be dead gone in love
bellows seal adaptor
Beverstone
black and white work
Carnesville
composite market
conidiole
constant ignition
contact relay
country club
crisis planning system
damianoes
data marker
disulfur
diver suit
effective sweep width
embedded memory
emulsion stability
epidemes
evergreen credit
fluorochlorohydrocarbons
foot-in-the-door technique
fundamental length
futurity industry
glossocinesthetic
gobitis
guzman
Hooray Henries
immediate delivery permit
importunest
Indian stone
induced disease
initial operational capability (ioc)
interrenal organs
Lindenhurst
linear measurement
load-ratio control transformer
lower flammability limit
lullings
lyopilapparatus
made a scene
main arc
maintenance building
master slice
Matthew Arnold
membrane tension
mikes
mini-grants
mobile video
momy
MOS amplifier
multiple gun cathode ray tube
n-cell array
n-types
nanoceramic
nigrescigenin
no-takest
North Pacific Region
nsws
Nāomīd, Dasht-e (Nāumid, Dasht-i-)
Och'ajin-ri
oil compass
order procellariiformess
over burning
parectasis
paydirts
portal block
quartern
rat race
router server
sarasins' turbinal (or septomaxillaries)
Schultz-Charlton test
self cleaning grizzly
shell-rock
shipping marks
sinar
sorplers
sortavala
stationary-
supersolvable
TEM wave
tex (automatic teleptinter exchange service)
thevelene
thin diet
third penny
total critical load
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de
trace file
undeafening
under-blankets
uvicon
vaudevillelike
voluntary movement
Wakhan Corridor
worthly