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
-browed
a'cockbill
activity-dependent reinforcement mechanism
adnexa
al lith (lith)
Anloy
antidromic impulse
azymous
berats
bitmask
block prefix
bridge escape
Bruch's membrane
Bruyères-et-Montbèrault
buzzphrases
cadre's responsibility system
Caesalpinia bonducella
cargo throughput
china's economy
cocainomaniac
coerulein
coined word
cold spray
color-blind
cooling grinder
core-rope storage
corynograptidae
crown-tree
cutlery steel
dee jig
dithiosalicylic acid
dormans
dratted
dudly
earthed circuit
edmond de goncourts
erosion pollution
external line
fault isolation routine
fork-join
fracture of scapula
frequency-domain estimation
fridas
Friedman's tests
gamesman
generalized pupil function
green peach aphids
grenz ray
guzhengs
haeger
hana
hierographer
Histaphene
hold the record of
in respect to
infrared absorption spectrum
initial fibre structure
insolat
isoaspartate
Kando-gawa
laboratory-grown
large exposures
Lewis County
logical schema
Mahonia japonica
mampy
Many a pickle makes a mickle.
micro and semimicro viscometer
Munnsville
n-oct
Never too old to learn.
nonpensioners
Oedipus complexes
over-extension
palpitation due to alarm
pedipalpate
perturbating
pisiformis
pneumatic receptor
power-boats
registry of merit
rememorations
return valve plug
roseworm
row scanning
Roxburgh binding
salashur
San Vicente, Pta.
shahovite (shakhovite)
sheath-anchor
six-unit error detecting code
stem radiation
stevedorings
subjective reading
subtest
tongue twister
tubera olfactorium
twin labor
vaporizing pressure
vitreous humor (or vitreous body)
Vresse
zero-phase