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
acromegaloidism
active-positive
agrarian laws
air intake heater
annual value
autogenetic plankton
beams gate
bitch smacks
blood & air partition coefficent
bonded transducer
calystegia japonica
capillary isotachophoresis
Christlikeness
clocked inverter
Corydalis tashiroi
crane ladle
crow-bait
defertilize
diereses
diets
differential selsyn receiver
dream tickets
ebenite
esophagogastroduodenoscopic
Eulalia pallens
face amount
fanless
forlesings
gauging system
gliding ratio
gnit
gobbly
gold leaf electrometer
ground handling equipment
hake's-tooth
hardenable
hidden-outline
identifier attribute
incentive wage
irreducible chain
kaputt
key-factor analysis
kikuchi band
koppelman
lazy 8s
lb-ft
Le Kef
length at waterline
Leptodermis lanata
liquid pressure drive
magnesia-chrome refractory
mal-parry
microstretching
milky storks
naphthenic base
node name
non vital
noncardiogenic
Nāmkān
optically excited laser
orthomode cavity
outdweller
oval nebula
packet format
practical completion
proceedss
psychedelic trance
Pteris multifida Poir.
pulling boat
r?ntgenite- (ce)
rookship
rotary stacker
scientific technical film
section working machine
selective mark
slug casting equipment
soupline
space curve
spring timber
statutory limit
step ladders
stratigraphical profile
sun-glass
sweat pants
Tabernaemontana pandacaqui
tentaculatus
three phase separator
Tishkovo
trochozoon
two-shaft gas turbine
tyre recapping rate
vertex oriented grammar
Vomo
water-ordeal
wesside
westabout
white rami communicante
word transfer instruction
worm oneself into someone's confidence
xbas
year-ends