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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Alcoran
amphistylic attachment
Aq.
arsenic amblyopia
assemblywomen
be made for each one another
biology laboratory activities checklist
biperiodical regime
block type reamer
Buvika
carsrud
Chinese pheasants
Chopra's antimony butter
coking power
consignment distributor
contract for the entire management of ...
conversational device
dacron wool filter
dampness-heat in lower jiao
daphnicadine
daumas
decidua basalis
dependence preservation
desamidation
droned on
drowsing
dysprosium oxalate
Fagus grandifolia
fallow soil
flegm
floyd-warshall algorithm
fly to bits
gap gage for spark plug
Gig E
grav
grugings
hanadi
holddown timer
Hudson B.
ichthyology laboratory
innerducing
interhousehold
inventory import cycle
issuers
Juris Doctors
live band
loaded solvent
logging headquarter
man-machine control systems
maximum enzyme velocity
membrano-proliferative change
metal - oxide semiconductor
method of calculation
monoclinic hemi-pinacoid
morulation
multiple access modulation
nonnumeric character
oil pressure indicator
oil-hardening steel
one-component system piezoelectric ceramics
pan troglodytess troglodytess
partitions of logic
polytropic compression
propylthiopyrophosphate
pullup acceleration
rear ends
rebitings
redundancy technology
Remodulin
repackers
retsinas
rotarod
rotatoire tic
S4B
sallad
Sanggan River
seminatural landscape
sender individual name
sheet of celluloid
single-phase stator
snake-bird
snow groomers
soldering pot
sperm-agglutinin
sprinkled
stove-top
stratospheric pollutant
Sylvinohalite
taagepera
tarn-cap
Titicaca water frog
Tolsan-do
Tretten
uk underwear
uneces
uranospathite
vacuous
wheatfield
whifflers
wmata
X-reactive dyes
zintl