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
adenocystosarcoma
administrative aircraft
alpha-acetylenes
Armoracia Gaertn
Arshinka
asphyxiant gas
ATBC
automatic programming and recording (apar)
barger
baseball coach
be about to do something
benshoof
berm ditch
bikerss
Bletilla hyacinthina
calcsilicate
calling for orders
candle lamp
carboxyl reaction
card-counter
carvacrol-carboxylic acid
chew over something
co latitude
coated ginger
compound rotating joints
condensable vapour
content-addressable basis
convex vertical curve
cosequence register
costimulate
cross sell
dichomeris lushanae
double-grid tube
drip-drier
East Friesian
Eddy Merckx
electrical quantities measurement
equilibrium inventory poisoning
European Academic and Research Network
firo-b
fistula of semicircular canal
flavor compound
fluorinated hydrocarbon
frequency distribution function
gateacres
gay boys
genus blenniuss
gowans
group 2 facsimile machine
hafnifluoride
Hattifatteners
Hosni
identicalnesses
indian trails
intermittent flow coefficient
islower
loading team
loop jack switchboard
Make-A-Wish Foundation
maternalizes
megascale
metalloproteins
multitask of processing routine
mutation load
n-p-c
nebule
neophytism
nettle-cloth
neuraclerosis
news feature
odd lot of stock
open culture
open-standard
oya
page boundary error
pathogenicbacteria
pitch of cascade
pollages
power of politics
procyclic
retainer flange
right between the eyes
rotary spool
sceneries
secondary amide
settle for
stationary phase method
stationary portion
sternquartz (asteriated quartz)
synthetical leather
television radar nevigation
tender passion
three-dimensional velocity log
transverse piling
unrighteousnesses
upper hatch
uproused
vibration-damping
Villarta de San Juan
whitefin dolphins
wind erosion hazard
winding shield