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
actual bicarbonate
aichmophobia
anomalous magnetic moment
aperture restrictor
back(ward)ware
biological terrorism
bouyancy curve
Carla-Bayle
casual business
chalcographer
checkerboards
christianisations
cigar store
column of built channels laced
combined disk clutch
content peering
crane on-track
Cuban heels
curtain-wall type breakwater
cyclophyllids
dairy cream
dispersion law
Disulone
does out of
dzo
earthing cable bond
edriches
edutains
effer
freemarkets
Fribourg
genus Rhinoceros
Gigartineae
Grossheubach
gumnivorous
HILAST
hull model
hyperkeratosis of palms and soles
infantile amaurotic familial disease
islandicin
japanese black pines
karyopherins
kreditanstalt
lobeline hydrochloride
Luyego de Somoza
made a toy of
mean time between failures (mtbf)
multiloop communication network
Nekrasovskaya
nervilia alishanensis
nickel steel wire
original source
outcharms
overgart
own declaration
paracoccin
plate girder joist
plateros piceicornis
Primula bulleyana
Protostomia
pure-tone audiometer
ratio of tip-section chord to root-section chord
reaction member
receiving telescope
recirculation lands
rehumanised
residual fat content
Ringsberg
school community
scuzzes
second mortgage lending
sector disc
service type parachute
session musician
seyh
shevats
single phase three-wire connection
slander of title
storage ratio
strictinin
sump water hold up tank
tarbooshes
tertiates
the court of appeal
tint tool
to spare
totaglossa
tricordia
twisted ears
two axle truck
Uberlingen
unconditional order
unlikenesses
urbanisation
valve tappet adjustment
venae interlobulares reniss
vertical differential chart
Wallawalla
Weekstown
welfare Cadillac
Whidbey Pt.
yellow orpiment