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 bodies of three election workers have been found in Afghanistan after the weekend's presidential election, taking the death toll 1 to 25. Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission says the three workers were kidnapped during voting. NATO officials say there were nearly 500 violent incidents during the poll after Taliban militants 2 vowed 3 to disrupt the vote. Officials say voter turnout was about 40% and counting is now underway.


Green's leader Bob Brown will use his first meeting with the prime minister this week to push for territories to have the right to legalize euthanasia. Senator Brown says he'll introduce a bill to return the rights of territories to legalize euthanasia.


Qantas passengers and crew have launched Australia's biggest compensation claim over a flight which was forced to make an emergency landing. The 2008 flight from Singapore to Perth plunged 4 twice during the flight, injuring 100 crew and passengers. The claim is against Airbus on the grounds of psychological trauma 5.


Indian police say a gang of criminals was most likely responsible for a gun attack on a tourist bus in New Delhi. Two Taiwanese tourists were injured when motorcyclists opened fire on tourists outside Delhi's main mosque 6. A group called the Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the attack.


And US officials say the ruptured 7 BP oil well that caused America's worst environmental disaster has finally been sealed. A pressure test shows a cement plug installed in the Gulf 8 of Mexico rig is holding.



1 toll
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
2 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。
3 vowed
起誓,发誓(vow的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。
  • I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。
4 plunged
v.颠簸( plunge的过去式和过去分词 );暴跌;骤降;突降
  • The train derailed and plunged into the river. 火车脱轨栽进了河里。
  • She lost her balance and plunged 100 feet to her death. 她没有站稳,从100英尺的高处跌下摔死了。
5 trauma
n.外伤,精神创伤
  • Counselling is helping him work through this trauma.心理辅导正帮助他面对痛苦。
  • The phobia may have its root in a childhood trauma.恐惧症可能源于童年时期的创伤。
6 mosque
n.清真寺
  • The mosque is a activity site and culture center of Muslim religion.清真寺为穆斯林宗教活动场所和文化中心。
  • Some years ago the clock in the tower of the mosque got out of order.几年前,清真寺钟楼里的大钟失灵了。
7 ruptured
v.(使)破裂( rupture的过去式和过去分词 );(使体内组织等)断裂;使(友好关系)破裂;使绝交
  • They reported that the pipeline had ruptured. 他们报告说管道已经破裂了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The wall through Berlin was finally ruptured, prefiguring the reunification of Germany. 柏林墙终于倒塌了,预示着德国的重新统一。 来自辞典例句
8 gulf
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
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actress-character
annual range
Anophthalmy
argillitic
aseroe arachnoidea
bada-bing
Ban Wang Ai Pong
bengal beans
bet one's boots.
biopersistent
bug-bear
C-Refine
cell lethality
charge-coupled imaging device
civs
claryon
clitopilus prunulus
commandeerer
computer graphics algorithms
constructive relationship
cosmetic bottle
cutting-off tool rest
deskbound
differential voltage gain
digital signature with appendix
disintegrity
DSRC
electro melting corundum
emhs
escap't
expense fund deposit
finished grade
flame colouration
gefrs
germ-free isolator
germ-vesicle
graded cable
grimstad
hand brake support tie rod
hand-operated rotary duster
high pressure sodium vapour lamp
highly cross-linked etherified starch
hildi
hindered isotope
incomparability
inflatable aircraft
intersection conical projection
Ipstones
kenmare
let him who is without sin cast the first stone
load time constant
local soil type
machine picked cotton
market grouping
marsplane
Measure of Success in Salvage
mill trunnion
Namam-ni
Nascar dad
ni shang y? i wu
non-conversational mode
non-operating earnings
oral arithmetic
owner-building
perturbation of spectra
philbins
physiomorphology
portable hot mix trailer
pro-ams
Pyraceton
re-phrase
reserve of foreign exchange
Sandvatn
SAP CRM
sense of loss
sink of graph
slime layer
sp reduction factor
spin dry
springlike
stalky tea
star electromotive force
state transition table
stithies
stochastic linear discrete system
stone circle
suster
switching stage
talkmeister
tetrapodisis
thallium(i) chloride
thumb pin
unencoded
vathe
vehicular systems
waste gas system
weep hole dam
what's more
wimble-wamble
window-ledge
Y-7131
yoey