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
abored cycle
abutilon fibre
accident death benefit insurance
adhesion placenta
Anastasius the Librarian
apterygida tumida
astroglosis
avants
be in full fig
bore slime
boulier
Boxer Rising
bridge structural mechanics
Canarians
Cape salmon
car lift
cavernlike
churchwardens
circuiting
cobber
collection of related data record
comment phrase
contractual joint venture
Cracker Jack
crumpled paper
Cumberland Island National Seashore
Curtiss
Datanil
de-stabilize
engine stop push button
erythropia
exocoetus monocirrhus
flat gain master controller
flee away
for the moment
freeish
Hanslick, Eduard
heterocrine
high-low points method
HTRF
inner parts
inquisitor perclathrata
keelage
Kilómetro 171
Koumac
labour of private individual
large-set
line deflection system
mechanically fired boiler
Mussalman
nailed-down
Nambakk
negative absorption coefficient
network transformernction
nonprismatic
oil of origanum
open flow test
p-chlorofluorobenzene
paste resin
peridentoclasia
piston-cooling pump
piston-displacement
postboxing
primogenitureship
pulmonic accentuated
radial turbocharger
radiochromatic dose glass
rated power of solar array
real-time information-processing system
rebroadcasting transmitter
reproductive motivation
resistance converter
rhinocerebral
rising space
rocket photography
rolling resistance of tractor
runoff factor
Savanat
seedfall
segmentalising
semi-durable good
seroanaphylaxis
Severn, Mouth of the
Shapki
shatz
skin girth
spectroflow
submunitions
subpress die
suffer pain
tantalous bromide
tenerum
throw-away
Tulare County
vacuum-sealed
Vansittartism
vector space
virtual discharge amount
white manifold paper
white-listed
wlt
woodcuts