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。
学英语单词
access stencil
adrenotrophic hormone
adrenoxine
african-led
antepygidial process
arclofenin
assembly process chart
ate one's words
balanced surface
Balkan Entente
bill and charge system
bituminating
braid group
braiding net machine
built-in rheostat
byte multiplexor channel
carbonatises
carry-bag
Chimonocalamus longiusculus
COM graph plotter
continuing operating enterprise
CP (constrained procedure)
Craigellachie
d.y.
debiting
dihydr-
disk furrower
dismountable
ECWA
electrooptic block
exhaust ventilator
Frenchton
gan(n)ister
gasoline blending stock
gelatinization
genus conuropses
girland
grain-growing
ground brace
Guajarraa
gutter-crawling
have something to eat
highgrove
inactive gas
initial set rudder angle
inorganic filler
intermedius meso
irigarays
isospin forbidden nuclear reaction
jet dyer
Jægerspris
kaimak
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
klagge
ko-
labilizer
majorana neutrino
malditas
manganese-anorthite
medium scale integration circuit
microhemagglutination
microphone equipment
mispled
mncars
multiprogramming dispatching
nascent soap
national standard
news information
one-strokes
outer bottom
Ovochlor
pair of faults
payment on land shares
personifacation
Petit's law
polynesians
present-worthed
pure imaginary
pyrolytic degradation
radiation thermocouple
radioisotope monitor
regional tectonics
rescue train
ruching
saint athanasiuss
sappanol
Saxonisms
sea-serpents
Sidi Kacem
smoochies
stable recharge
structural auteurism
super cut
thallodea
title song
unbettered
vagal attack
variation in level of supports
welany
wire together
workpeoples
write error