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
'puter
Acacia teniana
academic adviser
achuars
algol 68s
Allhallowmas
Andy McNab
anecdotally
angular optical polygon
arabinogalactan
be in dittos
benthic invertebrate
Bhuban Hills
bioherm oil gas reservoir
block structured process
bring more land under cultivation
cadmium fluoride photon spectrometer
carotene oxide
colonels-in-chief
conneting rod small end
cutty clay
deep-drawing steel
deprotected
discountenance
do you need help
dorsal digital vein of foot
double governor
elder-berry
everquest
expiring date
franctional rights
front interchangeable lens
fundamental category
gearin
glenmuirs
guide cable
hair-ribbons
Hamilton, Sir William Rowan
haustella
hawdod
heteromannan
hide's theory
high-speed wire
Interspinals
intra-european payments agreements
Ioniveyem
ipoh aker
Irish Republican Army
island group
isolation test routine
kalamkari
lactyl-lactic acid
LAFU
Lindesnes
liquidation value per share
lost motion caused by elastic deflection
lumen output
mars-e
mediocrest
Methyl-3-heptanone
Minogues
mycosphaerella piperis
mysophobe
oil production sharing
optimization of heat exchanger
organizational justice
pass keys
photopeak
plane trace
postgulare
powered axle
premessianic
programming performance
protection error
recessed room
relative partial free energy
RFDH (reserve shut down forced derated hour)
sagrajas
see-sawings
self-guided weight-loaded accumulator
semmelwei
sequential strategy
solicited
special-occasion
statement of operating expense
steam admission
strip mill
super-rich
t'ai ch'ang
Tapirapuã
tekkieh
thyme
tomzik
tramisol
transformer on-load voltage regulating
triple passing tone
valuation for customs purposes
valve seater
winnie
WNL
worm and wheel
zero-order rate