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。
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4-Nitrodiphenyl
a bird of paradise
acrostichal bristles
adult rickets
agroecological
areflexias
asteroidians
asymmetrical fan beam
at cross purposes
axial profile angle
background response
bauhins
bigorres
bismuth chromate
Chlormethinum
cisney
coarse-pitch gear
Colombey
control master
coprophilism
criminal psychiatry
cryogenic connector
Dala Cachibo
dfd
dimeflin
dog window
dry tumbling
electric tie tamper
electrical storm
enfaced bond
epioblasma sampsoni
fast-tracking
fundamental aspects of modern active mixer design
galiardi
genoceptor
glass slot-liner
great wass i.
head-banga
Hesionidae
Hibiscus schizopetalus
hyper-critical
hypophysioportal circuIation
i-thoncked
incantation
indifference curves
indirect observations
keep one's weather weath-eye open
Kirkton
Klucze
length of sentence
logical line group
microminiaturize
milincic
Minami-jima
modulation band
Mutillidae
naked wire
new machinery up to agri-modern standards
nonchaotically
nonsurjective
not turn a hand
nothing but
offset-fed dipole (slot)
on-line accounting system
open end container
Opoeteren
oral interrogation
orthogonal contrasts
pavement width
peer of the realm, peer of the United Kingdom
photoionization efficiency
pickwick papers
precedinglimb
pro hac vice
probities
raycom
rhinocoele
rolling impression
rousettus leschenaultii
sideways feed
siegenian stage
solid tooth
Staphylococcus citreus
stationary schr?dinger equation
Stienen
stipulaceous
subsea well
terro-metallic clinker
the Forty-five
thermostatic chamber
transfer-book
treating process sweetening
trust banking
ultrasonic technique (ut)
unsubstantiated
upward component
ventriloquous
vertical split
weak isomorphism
woodmotes
wren-tits
yese