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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Australia won six swimming gold medals on the third night of competition at the Commonwealth 1 Games in New Delhi. Leisel Jones won gold in the 200m breaststroke ahead of compatriots Tessa Wallace and Sarah Katsoulis who took the silver and bronze medals. Australia's medal tally 2 stands at 21 gold, 15 silver and 10 bronze.


Australian Federal Police and overseas agencies have carried out raids on a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank which makes banknotes. Employees and agents of Securency International are being investigated over allegations of corruption 3 in securing international polymer banknote contracts. The British government’s Serious Fraud Office says properties in Melbourne, the UK and Spain were raided last night. Two men were arrested in the UK.


A new report from the Center of Independent Studies says it's wrong for politicians to pretend that they can stop population growth. The Populate and Perish report says, no matter what measures we take, Australia's population will reach 29 million by 2050.


The Federal Opposition 4 Leader Tony Abbott has met the British Defense 5 Secretary Liam Fox to discuss Australia's role in Afghanistan. Back home, ANU defense expert Professor Paul Dibb has accused the Opposition of political opportunism in calling for extra troops and resources for Afghanistan.


In Yemen, a British embassy official has been injured in an attack on a diplomatic car in the capital  Sana'a. Militants 6 fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a British embassy car, injuring a staff member and three by-standers.



1 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。
2 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。
3 corruption
n.腐败,堕落,贪污
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
4 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。
5 defense
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
6 militants
激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
  • The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来,反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
  • Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此,巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
学英语单词
Adetide
all-male
Anemone quinquefolia
Arlt's trachoma
arq(automatic repeat request)
athwart hawse
atm protocol data unit
attaway
automatic colo(u)r control circuit
babuyan channel
be experienced in
bismutomicrolite
boyfriend
brehm
cache algorithm
cambridge springs
chilloplasty
clubiona jucunda
commercial maritime law
consiglios
contingent upon
convention for constantinople
countdowns
demeritorious
Diglycidyl
disinsuring
distillation cathode
disulfid
doctus
draught regulator
emergent literacy
encoronet
episcopi
exhausture
fish oil tank
flap chair
gammadions
gas recycling
gate lifting device
genus Liatris
geography of labo(u)r resources
glacial staircase
grandmont
gross misbehavior
gymnosporidia
heat-resistant motor
high-frequency symmetrical cable
honkey, honkie
intelligence-based
jewstones
lichen ruber moniliformis
liquid poison system
LPL (list processing language)
macrogeographical
made-for-television
main metacentre
Mokpot
Morpurgo
non selective party line
Oberfell
of a lifetime
osbournes
overdriven amplifier
periorchitis adhaesiva
phycochromes
plant closing
pollaccine
porcapyne
power displacement coefficient
prolate spheroidal
pteris crentica auct non l.p.nervosa thunb.
public-address amplifier
Puccinia osmorrhizae
quasiconvex sequence
re-extract
rivergate
rugate
seouestra
set head rivet
sheet bar
ship light
single ended synchronization
slant-bottom scoop
sniveling
space plane
tetrametre
Theridion
tight fracture
transom stern
ulam
uncertificated system
unspool
vice grip
warlick
water-pollinated
wheelchair curling
wicketkeeping
wildlife disease
without fraudulent intent
write-of doubtful account
Yaguaneque
yochim