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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The Government has played down speculation 1 that Australia could be involved in the war in Afghanistan until 2020. Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition 2 Leader Tony Abbott have both expressed their support for Australia's commitment beyond 2014. But the Greens want Australia to withdraw from the conflict.


The Federal Government will spend more than $170 million creating two new detention 3 centres. Immigration Department officials told an estimates hearing the new centre at Northam in Western Australia will cost over $164 million. South Australia's Inverbrackie facility will use existing buildings and cost just under $10 million.


There are reports that James Packer has launched a $250 million share market raid on Channel Ten. That would give him a 15 per cent stake in the company. Stockbrokers 4 say after the market closed yesterday, 163 million Network Ten shares were traded. The Ten Network has declined to comment.


The Forest Industries Association says it could take up to 30 years to end logging in Tasmania's native forests despite a historic peace deal. A deal between the logging industry and conservationists was signed in Hobart yesterday. That agreement outlines a commitment to stop logging of high conservation value forests within months. It also pledges to eventually end all native forest logging.


In France, almost half a million people have taken to the streets for a sixth day of protests about pension reforms. The nationwide strikes have cancelled flights and closed schools, but the government says it will push on with…       



1 speculation
n.思索,沉思;猜测;投机
  • Her mind is occupied with speculation.她的头脑忙于思考。
  • There is widespread speculation that he is going to resign.人们普遍推测他要辞职。
2 opposition
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
3 detention
n.滞留,停留;拘留,扣留;(教育)留下
  • He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
  • He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。
4 stockbrokers
n.股票经纪人( stockbroker的名词复数 )
  • Stockbrokers never more than now lack enthusiasm for the small client. 证券经济人在面对那些小客户时从未像现在这样缺乏激情。 来自互联网
  • Today, I have expensive attorneys, accountants, real estate brokers and stockbrokers. 今天,我雇有身价昂贵的律师、会计师、房地产经纪人以及股票经纪人。 来自互联网
学英语单词
a.c.l
aand
abolishment
alternative substiutions
ammonium rhodanate
anesthetist
antiphase boundary energy
auditory ganglion
Australian or Tuvaluan Dollars
autograph albums
automatic indexing
barthe r.
birdseed
box canyon
bromine (mono)chloride
capital budgeting
cavernous plexus
chelonethida
cheniere
chlorbycyclen
Cimone, Mte.
contact starting
Crataegus kansuensis
Deb. spis.
dimgray
dry fuel engine
enclosed space
factor complex
fixed frequency iff
gene doping
good through
gravid uterine tumor
grossy
gurners
hawaladar
Hoffmannia
hollow viscus
Ilokano
impeccable
indlamu
iplab
lacrosse stick
Lafayette Hill
lehtungensis
liquor separator
loan principal
low pressure valve
merbecke
metabolic inhibitor
methodology
minimum-critical-mass experiment
monovalent antibody
nervousness
Nervus musculi tensoris veli palatini
non-managers
nose radiator
not know a hawk from a handsaw
nuclearizing
number of vehicles
Oeste, Can.
Office document
ordinate axis
overflow linking overflow technique
PEG-Adenosine
pericytes
personal lubricants
pinotherapy
pneumatic robot
post-historical
pre-caching
prison-reform
pseudoprime number
pyralidaes
rachitism
relief tower
request homing
s-word
Sahel
samaja
sandmo(u)ld
satisfactory condition
Sedum formosanum
sepioteuthis lessoniana
shell and tube condenser
snap flask mould
solubilis
Spearman-Brown formula
Starnberger See
subgleba
technique test
theoretical environmentology
Thymoglobuline-Sangstat
tufa cone
two letter signal
unbloated
vells
Vesak
whips through
Winer spectrum
worryin'
zero-output terminal