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
a4-size paper
abdalla
alpha phase
analogue ground
articulated gearing
attached goods
autocautery
average duty on specified category of product
balanephagous
beauclerk
blow jobbers
brass stud
Buabuata
bubbletown
Carbazilquinone
carbureter engine
chainable
Chodsko
Clitea metallica
Clopenthioxol
cobaltglance
cobby
core area
country living
cover up for
Cryptophyceae
cumjunkies
delphos
Dendrobium jiajiangense
detumesced
docu-mentary
donyea
drumler
drying meter
DUVD
eaglehawk
en axe
ENCOE
endolithon
exantlation
extines
first team
Fossa jugularis
fouling hawse
frequency calibration scale
Gallophiles
genicular syndrome
go through a red light
griset
Guiren Township
haplobasidion musae
Helbon
henryi
hold up as an example
impaction of vitreous
increase in the same pace
intec
intermediate groove
ion microprobe
jacta est alea
Jungner battery
justice-involved
Kantara Castle
look round for
loss conductance
mystery meat
neurochemicals
normal growing-stock for summer's middle
oomatogenesis
open-skies
oxygenian
paraffin gas
politica
prefacive
primary (parent) container identifier
quadratic element
quality level certification
re-gaging work
salmoni
scutigera coleoptratas
second-order effects
Senegaleseness
sewn soft cover
shipper's weight
show your ivories
solid stop
string-handling instruction
study-level
styptical
successful aging
take a spin
tidal lock
trichodophlebitis
turbine-driven fan
uptake tube
us birth certificate
warehouse charges at por
We are in the same boat
workforce
Zachodniopomorskie
zecchin