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 bulldozers are back in the West Bank. The Palestinian leaders have yet to decide if they'll stick with the peace talks. They threaten to walk if Israel resume(s) building in its West Bank settlements. They say they'll decide what to do after meeting Arab leaders next week.


The ABC has reported the Indian Commonwealth 1 Games have been plagued by corruption 3 and nepotism 4. It understands as much as a quarter of the costs have gone to corrupt 2 bureaucrats 5 and business leaders. The Games' original budget of 500 million dollars has ballooned to close to


five billion dollars.


Three Australian soldiers facing charges over a firefight in Afghanistan that killed five children are vowing 6 to clear their names. One soldier has been charged with manslaughter; the two others are facing lesser 7 charges of failing to follow orders and dangerous conduct.  


Virgin 8 Blue says customers are still facing long waiting times at some airports as it struggles to get flight schedules back to normal. So far, no flights have been cancelled. Some passengers spent a second night stranded 9 after the airline's check-in computer crashed on Sunday.


Industry groups in New South Wales are warning a scheme to promote solar power is encouraging dodgy installation companies to set up. The scheme pays households for the excess electricity. The Department of Fair Trading has confirmed complaints about installation companies have skyrocketed since the scheme began.



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 corrupt
v.贿赂,收买;adj.腐败的,贪污的
  • The newspaper alleged the mayor's corrupt practices.那家报纸断言市长有舞弊行为。
  • This judge is corrupt.这个法官贪污。
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 nepotism
n.任人唯亲;裙带关系
  • The congressman lashed the president for his nepotism.国会议员抨击总统搞裙带关系。
  • Many will regard his appointment as the kind of nepotism British banking ought to avoid.很多人会把他的任命看作是英国银行业应该避免的一种裙带关系。
5 bureaucrats
n.官僚( bureaucrat的名词复数 );官僚主义;官僚主义者;官僚语言
  • That is the fate of the bureaucrats, not the inspiration of statesmen. 那是官僚主义者的命运,而不是政治家的灵感。 来自辞典例句
  • Big business and dozens of anonymous bureaucrats have as much power as Japan's top elected leaders. 大企业和许多不知名的官僚同日本选举出来的最高层领导者们的权力一样大。 来自辞典例句
6 vowing
起誓,发誓(vow的现在分词形式)
  • President Bush is vowing to help Minneapolis rebuild its collapsed bridge. 布什总统承诺将帮助明尼阿波利斯重建坍塌的大桥。
  • President Bush is vowing to help Minneapolis rebuild this collapse bridge. 布什总统发誓要帮助明尼阿波利斯重建起这座坍塌的桥梁。
7 lesser
adj.次要的,较小的;adv.较小地,较少地
  • Kept some of the lesser players out.不让那些次要的球员参加联赛。
  • She has also been affected,but to a lesser degree.她也受到波及,但程度较轻。
8 virgin
n.处女,未婚女子;adj.未经使用的;未经开发的
  • Have you ever been to a virgin forest?你去过原始森林吗?
  • There are vast expanses of virgin land in the remote regions.在边远地区有大片大片未开垦的土地。
9 stranded
a.搁浅的,进退两难的
  • He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里, 身无分文,一筹莫展。
  • I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市,既没有钱,又没有朋友。
学英语单词
-co-
a greasy grind
acolake
active stack
Adonias
Adrian IV
aggrieved
agricultural career orientation program
alicyclobacilli
American literature
anatase
bailing air rate
bathetically
be in a tearing hurry
blomstrandine
Brava Island
carrier bitt
Casanova
center flux
Charlotte Town
common white dogwoods
copper electrode
de generator
delete statement
domin
draw sb out
eccentric knockout grid
end-games
Escalhão
euparal
expert statement
fetal anoxia
flexible sprocket wheel pulverizer
genus Krypterophaneron
glacial tills
guards of honor
hammer diamond
hideth
histamine cephalagia
humping slow signal
imbedded guide
ion product constant
Isocainide
jugular compression
Kushtia Dist.
labial flange
magnetic fluid bearing
making contact
Mammoth Cave National Park
meltet
mercury-arc rectifier
migration of capital
motion indicator
Nagavali
native defect
nautica
Netsh
non-drop frame
orecarrier
orthogonal functions
otp
personel locator beacon
phosor bronze
pokras
Polmaddie Hill
polydystrophy
post-offices
primary regulation
process-oriented category
progeid
pylzowii
radio communication for multiple-operated locomotive units
rarefaction
ratchet brace
rated maximum supply current
re-tinker
receiver data available
rectal cancer
rehypothecating
saumpel
Schrodinger's
scroll work
seleniferous
shift pulse
sosegon
South Ossetia
spermia
St Mary L.
stationary program
steel pans
subharmonic mode-locking
Syklofosfamide
system external storage
three-lamp
Toilax
uniaxial strain gauge
upper case text
vorse
Wanyamwezi
wire back tie
zirconium oxide oxygen analyzer
zvonimirs