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
a playboy
active sweat glands
agisting
aluminum metal
American Manufacturers Foreign Credit Insurance Exchange
angular integral
artemus wards
aspherically
attaineth
availability of bank
azimuth angle
barken
batch measuring system
besetters
betostatine
biological luminescence
birth rate, birthrate
bruiseless
carrying capacity of river
chloroethanesulfonyl chloride
clothesmen
cognate inclusions
consulting psychology
control-rod channel
conventional chemical constant
core-flux test
ctenochasmatids
decimal computer
dimmedness
dracunculus medinenses
dutro
expanded form of value
Falama
fellow-traveler
film crew
formidolose
fuel injection systems
function constraint
fur brush development
giganticide
graphic analysis of data
grey herons
HAF black
hits on
homeomorphism problem
ICPMM
impact microphone
insulation control
intermediate port
inyet
Koumra
Leiboff-Kahn's method
liquidus line
local switching center
Lykershausen
manual gate valve
Marconaflo
master cylinder lever
medd
melting test
mishold
monocytoses
multi-plate steering clutch
murnane
Naga Hills
narrow beam transducer
narrow mind
nitrolignin
nonantagonistic contradiction
oxy-accetylene blow pipe
page use list
peritectomies
permitted level of return
power valve
pre-colonial
preprocess stock
press tits
printograph
rammed bottom
reparameterization
Shaveh-Kiriathaim
Skee-Ball
SM'2
sodoku
sonsie
spiracin
St.
starch dialdehyde
sucm pump
system rehearsal
telmex
to RT
treadplate
treaty wording
tripod stack
twin engine aircraft
uhhhhh
us government securities
Utricularia bifida
virtual pitch
vittell
walnut shell power