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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Burmese officials say democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be released from detention 1 next month as scheduled. Her lawyers say she is yet to be told. And they remain skeptical 2 that this will actually happen. The Nobel Peace laureate won the country's last general election in 1990, but spent of course most the last (next口误) two decades in detention after a military coup 3.


The first week of the new Federal Parliament is over, but not without some teething problems. Speaker Harry 4 Jenkins is frustrated 5 with aspects of the new rules governing Question Time. And many MPs are still finding their feet.


A teenage boy is in a serious condition (after口误) in hospital after an overnight shooting in Adelaide. The 17-year-old was shot in the neck at a tattoo 6 parlour in the city centre. Police are still investigating that matter.


And a state of emergency has been declared in Ecuador. Troops have taken over the main airport and there's been unrest in several towns. Police and the army have been protesting against government plans to cut their pay.


And the US Middle East envoy 7 is no closer to securing further direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. George Mitchell's meeting yesterday with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas ended inconclusively. Mr Abbas has threatened to pull out of the talks if an Israeli freeze on settlement building isn't extended.



1 detention
n.滞留,停留;拘留,扣留;(教育)留下
  • He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
  • He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。
2 skeptical
adj.怀疑的,多疑的
  • Others here are more skeptical about the chances for justice being done.这里的其他人更为怀疑正义能否得到伸张。
  • Her look was skeptical and resigned.她的表情是将信将疑而又无可奈何。
3 coup
n.政变;突然而成功的行动
  • The monarch was ousted by a military coup.那君主被军事政变者废黜了。
  • That government was overthrown in a military coup three years ago.那个政府在3年前的军事政变中被推翻。
4 harry
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
5 frustrated
adj.挫败的,失意的,泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的过去式和过去分词 );挫败;使受挫折;令人沮丧
  • It's very easy to get frustrated in this job. 这个工作很容易令人懊恼。
  • The bad weather frustrated all our hopes of going out. 恶劣的天气破坏了我们出行的愿望。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 tattoo
n.纹身,(皮肤上的)刺花纹;vt.刺花纹于
  • I've decided to get my tattoo removed.我已经决定去掉我身上的纹身。
  • He had a tattoo on the back of his hand.他手背上刺有花纹。
7 envoy
n.使节,使者,代表,公使
  • Their envoy showed no sign of responding to our proposals.他们的代表对我方的提议毫无回应的迹象。
  • The government has not yet appointed an envoy to the area.政府尚未向这一地区派过外交官。
学英语单词
allyl butyl sulfoxide
anthemize
base track
basis period tax
be no substitute for
Belcher Is.
blimpishly
book jobber
bovine smallpo
British gum
brushing table
c-abl-bcr
cabbage net
caffes
carpet-like alpine meadow
castagno
catopleite
chk
clasp knife
commercial bank loans
common feldspar
composite junction
computationally extended logic programming
cyanuric ester
denotating
detailloss
diacytic type
diameter of impression
direct-axis time constant
display oriented language
dodecahedral slip
enoki
event definition language
fat chemistry
fdisks
forward flight
Franklin and Marshall College
freeze prices
Full Hard
galaxaura rugosa
ghost writers
glutamyls
Great Fish Pt.
grilly
gun-target line
have afit of the blues
have experience
hemicolectomies
hydrobromide
immune pregnancy test
indriidaes
internal diseconomics of production
Kamera
kolypeptic
lead line correction
lemarchand
Leubnitz
level table guide
magin
make much ado about nothing
matures
meal-mouthed
moon moth
octadecanoid
offshore production facilities
oil of palms
oleuropin
oven-fresh
oxygen mask assembly
peeping tomism
pettiness
phrase marker
predator-preys
rating of well
rectifying printer
refrex
refuse disposal plant
remote access dial-in user service
repair cycle aircraft
Riccati differential equation
rule character set
self-aligning plunger line switch
serozymogenic cells
serverless computing
stone washer
storativities
supergene water
tab washer
takasaki
take the wraps off
technical revolution
textularid
three stub tuner
traffic safety
TTCE
unsuitable value
vacuum braking
vitreous cavity
Wedekind, Frank
weldable structural steel
wentzelite (wenzelite)
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