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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On her first international trip as Prime Minister, Julia Gillard has admitted the foreign relation is not her passion. The Prime Minister is at the Asia-Europe Meeting in Brussels, meeting with foreign dignitaries there.


A state of emergency has been declared in Hungary where a toxic 1 mud spill has swamped three villages. At least four people died and more than 120 people were injured when the red sludge burst from a dam at an aluminum 2 plant. Emergency services are trying to stop the mud from flowing into major waterways.


The man convicted of an attempted car bomb attack in New York’s Times Square has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Earlier this year, Faisal Shahzad pleaded guilty to weapons and terrorism charges. At his sentencing, he told the judge that war with the Muslims has just begun and the US was facing imminent 3 defeat.


A French financial trader has been sentenced to jail for masterminding one of the biggest trading frauds in history.  Jerome Kerviel was found guilty of betting nearly 70 billion dollars of Societe  Generale's money without the bank's knowledge. The bank says his covert 4 stock trades lost more than seven billion dollars.


And it's been another golden day for Australia’s athletes in Delhi. Australia won another five gold medals at the Commonwealth 5 Games overnight. Anne Meares led Australia’s winning site in the cycling, breaking her own record to take gold in the women's 500m time trial. Medals in cycling, swimming and gymnastics helped take Australia’s gold medal tally 6 to nine.



1 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。
2 aluminum
n.(aluminium)铝
  • The aluminum sheets cannot be too much thicker than 0.04 inches.铝板厚度不能超过0.04英寸。
  • During the launch phase,it would ride in a protective aluminum shell.在发射阶段,它盛在一只保护的铝壳里。
3 imminent
adj.即将发生的,临近的,逼近的
  • The black clounds show that a storm is imminent.乌云预示暴风雨即将来临。
  • The country is in imminent danger.国难当头。
4 covert
adj.隐藏的;暗地里的
  • We should learn to fight with enemy in an overt and covert way.我们应学会同敌人做公开和隐蔽的斗争。
  • The army carried out covert surveillance of the building for several months.军队对这座建筑物进行了数月的秘密监视。
5 commonwealth
n.共和国,联邦,共同体
  • He is the chairman of the commonwealth of artists.他是艺术家协会的主席。
  • Most of the members of the Commonwealth are nonwhite.英联邦的许多成员国不是白人国家。
6 tally
n.计数器,记分,一致,测量;vt.计算,记录,使一致;vi.计算,记分,一致
  • Don't forget to keep a careful tally of what you spend.别忘了仔细记下你的开支账目。
  • The facts mentioned in the report tally to every detail.报告中所提到的事实都丝毫不差。
学英语单词
a/c (account)
ahidjo
angle struct
aptnesses
arthritis leucocytotica
bachofen
Bank Secrecy Act
baquet
baviere
be of advantage to
beigbeders
benc
bleeding heart dicentra spectabilis dc.
bur tawfiq (port tewfick)
cellulose laurate
Ch'ǒnmasanmaek
chimings
circuit resonance curve
collarmakers
construction expenditures special funds
conveyer lever
corporation with foreign capital
corporatists
Cremlingen
cymosely
deblock
DP (design proof)
edge stitched seam
egg matzas
exploitation through land rent
external open juncture
FANNIIDAE
fault coal basin
Galen's nerve
gas turbine-electric propulsion
genus Cerastes
genus Lilium
Gilliam's operation
guillouxes
haskinize
hematomctachysis
hull assembly
institute for telecommunication science (its)
jackknife position
kathisma
Kibwezi, C.
Kiddi
koyok
lactobutyrometer
left track
Ligustrum confusum
louis-heeled
love-stricken
lymphatic infiltration
maximowicziana
measure out
microvibrograph
mislabelled
mislucks
monitor group
narrative mimesis (syntax)
natural compound chemistry
natural voice
nonpairing
Old Norman
onocrotal
orthocore
orthogonal antenna
overpitches
paddle rotor
periodic intermittent working
Piersol's points
plagueship
pokinete
postgate
principalities of andorra
PROMEROPIDAE
Puktaech'ǒn
Quicabo
re-keying
road improvenment
Rφdberg
saddle
sea basses
seismic energy
sharkin'
SPDLTR
staged search
straight ampul
tectonic depression
teera
the year's harvest forecast
theory of production
Tmesipteris
Uschinsky's solution
verbal request
weight in average
white vitriols
wonder
WS (water supply)