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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acupuncturists
adjustable stator blade
ameries
archaeoastronomy
architectonic(al)
arken
Atenase
automatic decimal aligment
be sucked in
biotectural
bracketed longitudinal system
burst range
Cambridge blue
campto
CFIT
chapstick lesbian
Cholchol
closing sitting
condition adjustment with parameters
control laboratory
DACOM
davisville
delfts
dichroiscopes
disclosable
eskrima
ethnomethodologies
fight fish
foetal death rate
formatted display
freemarketry
fringe sharpness
fully fluorinated paraffin
gawyn
geomagnetic longitude
geometry of the spectrum
HEPA filter
hippocratism
homochasmanine
hydraulic test of stern tube sleeve
hypoleucum
Ibbett
incident angle
instruction address source
interfere with
international chemical symbols for the element
invigorate the lung and the kidney
Kavalerskiy
keyboard lighting
L. S.
legal encyclopaedia
leontinis
long-range policy
malachiids
Mebyon Kernow
Microtoena pauciflora
minuscule
motor impersonal micrometer
nephrotuberculosis
normalized modes
ob-gyns
optical add & drop multiplexer
oval point
ox-wagon
panmiotic population
phosphonium salts
pile hook
plugboard unit
polishing file
politicone
powder horns
pulsed magnet betatron
ramp up
root sealer bead
salted drying
semi-geostrophic space
sideloop
sink into the memory of someone
sinus capillaries
Sirānwāli
slot-type furnace
solar-terrestrial phenomena
solozone
spanker boom
strait-lacedness
structured writing for software documentation
submarine exercise area
synchrotron-osciliation frequency
tableing
telluroxide
tenuation factor
thronged
transpositioning
turbine cooling
two-port junction
two-stage cascade generator
ulysses
underground railway survey
uterine body
utilest
Vernalis
wordgame