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
Acutrim
agglutin-
amplified agc
apron-elevator
arapungas
Asset depreciation
be blended of
bienne (la bienne riviere)
biostructures
black maria
borkar
brunelli
bufonidaes
calculation instructions
camets
carcharodontosaurus
cardiacs
cell-mediated lymphocytotoxicity
ceptions
clear language address
column-shift unit
comfortable temperature
crista spiralis
Dariganga
defined label
devil's rope
disavaunce
drill jib
electric propeller
extinction in diffraction pattern
falc
flameproof transformer
Flemish coil
fountain water
gasoline gas
genus Limnodromus
geomorphic system
grid (packed) tower
heart-rater
henequens
hyalids
infinitely small
insufflator
lamellar polarization
lateral cervical region
lingulated
low level collision avoid ance
magnetic aftereffect loss
marked ratio
Master of the Universe
measuring and control system
merry widows
mitrovics
Montzen
moving-window
multipactor breakdown
natramblygonite
natural sound
natural-logarithm
neutral document
nitronium ion
not your father's
ocular flutter
Oliana
personal difference
potluck lunch
pre-study
preventing cough
primary geodetic network
readout command
releasing contact
responsibility for
Ryan's skin test
scattering vector
Scottish National Dictionary
self-maintaining discharge
shaftwork
slightest
stage of complete ripeness
stair-carpets
standgales
static life
sthenes
submarine thermal reactor
superjunket
swingback release
tack reducing material
tentacule
Tha Wat Buri
tontogany
trans-erasure
trans-interchange
transplantings
trivirostra hordacea
Trube's correlation
trustlessness
tschernichewite (chernyshevite)
uncapped
unproven
upper limit of flammability
uterosalpingography
valuation clause