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。
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ablation shields
administrative-law judge
adult movies
aerobic composting
amanita virgineoides
and I don't know what else
angle bead
antifear
arse-crack
atinga (nigeria)
aznars
balsam
benzeneazo cresol
ceiling on wages
cellasin
center for shipping information and advisory services
centralized adaptive routing
completely self-protected distribution transformer
copygraph
critical limit
daylight lighting
diamond training
dichotomist
Didah
dioristical
DO delivery order
dog's-leather
economy system science
equal opportunity for all
error absolute
error rate damping
Exochognathus
external profile diameter
Faladoira, Sa.da
fermentation cylinder
fettling door
flatteners
formosina ochracea
free-format
function
gomels
good-government
ground-out
herring roe
high-power broadcasting
high-speed calculator
ICI182780
in want
interest per day
intraocular microforceps
language science
man-induced event
Mangoni
measurement data transmission
milesina miyabei
moar elveation of boiling point
multilevel flash memories
mythicisations
Māni, Wādī al
narrative address
neo-conceptual
neuro-psychologists
nocturnus
ota
panama zephyr
pars sternocostalis (pericardii)
pearlitic cementite
physics class
pilot plunger
potch
protect environment
Radonin
rib-ticklers
robot technology
rod milling
runkle
rustinesses
self-complacent
selfabandonment
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social intelligence
sprogged
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starter terminal stud
straw mushroom
sun-day
taxi-dancers
tendino-
the devonian
three-forked jump
tiwari
trumpet moonflower
tudes
tunicae uveae
under the premise
underdetermine
ustilaginous
vestibulo-cochlear artery
vrsceralgia
walk over sb.
walking up
whistness