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
add cells
adeniform
Allomorphia balansae
analgin
Arenacea
arline
AT-346
audit of quarterly reports
backkick
biomagnetic
black-and-white pattern
cat us
characterologic
cocarde syphilid
current diagram
dimethylbutadiene
double cutter shearing machine
dual-track recorder
dyeing and printing auxiliary
elumbated
enamelling iron
enterogenic infection
Entwistle' gearing
EOF (end of file)
flow concentration
fuel injector body
galiton
generalized adjustment
Gentiana Tourn.ex L.
grinten
hermitian polynomial
Homochloreyclizine
hydrophyllaceaes
in the panel
initial rise
irreversible energy loss
joint-stock companies
kokoon
Koutouma
landing parties
lindingaspis ferrisi
line score
local ring of a point
lower deck knee
maclayin
Maine River
massaging cream
maytals
mobility test
multi-failsafe timer
mysterize
noncumulative quantity discount
obsequent fault-line scarp
odible
Oodinium
open-hearth
operating wavelength
Panicum luzonense
parkwide
partial numerator
patheticisms
polysomy
pop (point of purchase)
pre-arranged
QAD
quest out
rearmounted three-point linkage
reduction-gear
sales accounting
Sally Nixon
schema file
Scourge of God
seekingly
sightread
simulation pass
small granule cell
sowing in hills
stand on one's own bottom
surface mounted component
surrealist film
tanning matter
telemetry reference
theory of plasticity
thionyl amines
three arm protractor
three-thrown crank shaft
tight coupling
Tobré
torroxes
transiliac
Tuscan straw
typological
ubiquitinylate
Udenhausen
unchrisom
Walter Scottish
wash (one's) dirty linen in public
water intake works
wear hardness testing apparatus
wear history
word operation
Yunotsu