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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A senior commando officer has told the ABC a decision to charge three Australian soldiers involved in the deaths of Afghan civilians 1 has incensed 2 his colleagues. Four children were among six people killed in an attack in February last year. The officer, who does not want to be identified, has also criticized the process for taking so long.


The Opposition 3 communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull says he is not interested in demolishing 4 the National Broadband Network. But Mr Turnbull said the cost of the NBN is too high. He made the comments during a debate with the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy.


In British politics, David Miliband won't be part of his brother's new shadow cabinet. The former foreign secretary says he wants to recharge his batteries. Mr Miliband narrowly lost the Labour leadership ballot 5 to his brother Ed.


Europeans are showing their anger at government budget cuts. About 50,000 protesters from 30 countries are demonstrating in Brussels. They say they shouldn't have to shoulder the financial burden for mistakes made by financial institutions.


US Middle East envoy 6 George Mitchell has met Israel's prime minister on his mission to keep the peace talks on track. Several compromises are on the table, including restricting West Bank construction to the main settlements. Mr Mitchell is due to meet the Palestinian president tomorrow.



1 civilians
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
2 incensed
盛怒的
  • The decision incensed the workforce. 这个决定激怒了劳工大众。
  • They were incensed at the decision. 他们被这个决定激怒了。
3 opposition
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
4 demolishing
v.摧毁( demolish的现在分词 );推翻;拆毁(尤指大建筑物);吃光
  • The machine was designed specially for demolishing old buildings. 这种机器是专为拆毁旧楼房而设计的。 来自《用法词典》
  • Conventional demolishing work would have caused considerable interruptions in traffic. 如果采用一般的拆除方法就要引起交通的严重中断。 来自辞典例句
5 ballot
n.(不记名)投票,投票总数,投票权;vi.投票
  • The members have demanded a ballot.会员们要求投票表决。
  • The union said they will ballot members on whether to strike.工会称他们将要求会员投票表决是否罢工。
6 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
access network interface
agency factor
avoidance behaviour
balaenoptera omurai
bellicostic
beneficially interested
birchens
blister cloth
Botallo's foramen
bugle-players
castreum
caury
cissus voinieriana hort
civa burnu (chiva burnu)
clickwrap licenses
coarse-chrominance primary
cross-relation function
design period
ebullated bed reactor
eccentric circle-in
eddy spectrum
effective publication
Estramadurite
eternity ra.
exameter
excel file
exhaustive classification
F minus
flight gyroscope
folded- media-type air filter
footgears
forceps hamostatic
friction twister
Gasteropoda
get it through your thick head
GKB
Gleifometer
gullwing
heinie
hemathlophorus formosanus
heptathlons
hofeld
Hornos, Is.
Howtown
Hsihutsunite
in alkaline soils
incision and drainage of external auditory canal
infant industry protection
jackanape
jump for joy
kinetic energy head
leaving tape
low excess air operation
mass transfer in gas phase
Meesden
melosira moniliformis
memory effects
mesozoic orogeny
neptunite
next most significant word
nonpolar dynamo
not to matter a farthing
off and
oil stock
on the horizon
ortho test
outlined rectangle
pay the piper and call the tune
pedicellate
peridotites
post yellow
potent
propagation angle
Prussianisms
reinner
resistancy
resource caching
roastnear
roofing bone
rubber-necker
scales of lepisosteus
school career
scopoletin
scrutinization
semicanales
serial processes
Seymour, Jane
shining firmoss
Shoho
shutoff operation
slotted template method
stoker
subsumings
subtractive colour
take it into your head to do sth
the disadvantaged
the Seven Sisters
three-state gate
untermensch
vertical stabiliser
waveguide flow calorimeter
wing brake