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
acct.
adopted children register
advance drawing change notice
atomic airburst
austroboletus taiwanensis
bangla deshes
BESRL
binary information
bow loading arrangement
butting-joint
calcisiltite
celtis koraiensis nakai
chopper modulation
chromatographable
Clochicinum
Coinage Security Fund
crimson-magenta
date conversion
dilly dally
direct insertion
drill gage
Dvinitsa
electrolytic pickling
enveigling
face-centered
famble
fast freight line
flagfeather
forestales
free alumina
free boundary electrophoresis
garnet zone
gastrotourists
Grolier
hot-finished tubing
I'm blind
inexhaustibility
inter-changeabilities
kernelless
lawyer of the corporation
Libritabs
magnetci thermometer
maintained markup
Malin More
megabit system
MEKC
microdrop
modes of transport
mononeural
muscle scar
musk-tree
Naver, Loch
negative line feed
Nevadian
non-conformer
non-purging type bulimia nervosa
parke-davis
Peloridiidae
potential demand
Prayssas
prima inter pares
PRX
put reliance in
pyschrophile
R1625
radiation aid
radiation chemical yield
ratio to moving average method
recombination-defective
repetitive operation
representative model
roundoff noise effect
scfh
searocket
sekihan
shelf sea
snow-whiter
space telemetry
spend like water
spindle hole
spinning manifold
spiritualizers
stationary random distribution
stichuss
stood sentinel
superior twin muscle
telephone vote service
three-dimensional magnetic field
thrice-favoured
Tijucas
torch cutting
trial of case
unsuffisance
uterus adenomyosis
vaskene
versatilous
Vychegda
war-ine
wear resistant rail
wheel-spinning
wooden maul
Zavodskoye