时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2010年


英语课

Australia faces another week in political limbo 1 as negotiations 2 to end post-election power stalemate enter a second week. Four independents return to Canberra today to resume talks with major parties about who will form a minority government. And Labor's preparing to reveal its plan for parliamentary reform as demanded by independents Tony Windsor, Rob Oakeshott and Bob Katter.


New South Wales police will today try to confirm whether skeletal remains 3 found in the Belanglo State Forest are human. A group of trail bike riders discovered the bones on Sunday and called police. The serial 4 killer 5 Ivan Milat dumped seven bodies in the forest in the 1990s.


Former David Jones' chief Mark Mclnnes is back in court today, fighting Australia's biggest-ever sexual harassment 6 claim. Former DJ's publicist Kristy Fraser-Kirk is claiming $37 million in damages, alleging 7 Mr Mclnnes acted inappropriately at work functions earlier this year. She's also suing the company, saying complaints to supervisors 8 were not taken seriously. David Jones and Mr Mclnnes denied the allegations.


One of Australia's biggest crime investigations 10 has uncovered an international drug syndicate linked to bikie gangs, Chinese triads and corrupt 11 Australian officials. A report by The Age and the ABC's Four Corners reveals the Australian Crime Commission has been leading the Hoffman investigation 9 for the past two years.


And police investigating a riot at the Darwin immigration detention 12 centre will study CCTV footage to see if charges will be laid.



1 limbo
n.地狱的边缘;监狱
  • His life seemed stuck in limbo and he could not go forward and he could not go back.他的生活好像陷入了不知所措的境地,进退两难。
  • I didn't know whether my family was alive or dead.I felt as if I was in limbo.我不知道家人是生是死,感觉自己茫然无措。
2 negotiations
协商( negotiation的名词复数 ); 谈判; 完成(难事); 通过
  • negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
  • Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。
3 remains
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
4 serial
n.连本影片,连本电视节目;adj.连续的
  • A new serial is starting on television tonight.今晚电视开播一部新的电视连续剧。
  • Can you account for the serial failures in our experiment?你能解释我们实验屡屡失败的原因吗?
5 killer
n.杀人者,杀人犯,杀手,屠杀者
  • Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
  • The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。
6 harassment
n.骚扰,扰乱,烦恼,烦乱
  • She often got telephone harassment at night these days.这些天她经常在夜晚受到电话骚扰。
  • The company prohibits any form of harassment.公司禁止任何形式的骚扰行为。
7 alleging
断言,宣称,辩解( allege的现在分词 )
  • His reputation was blemished by a newspaper article alleging he'd evaded his taxes. 由于报上一篇文章声称他曾逃税,他的名誉受到损害。
  • This our Peeress declined as unnecessary, alleging that her cousin Thornhill's recommendation would be sufficient. 那位贵人不肯,还说不必,只要有她老表唐希尔保荐就够了。
8 supervisors
n.监督者,管理者( supervisor的名词复数 )
  • I think the best technical people make the best supervisors. 我认为最好的技术人员可以成为最好的管理人员。 来自辞典例句
  • Even the foremen or first-level supervisors have a staffing responsibility. 甚至领班或第一线的监督人员也有任用的责任。 来自辞典例句
9 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
10 investigations
(正式的)调查( investigation的名词复数 ); 侦查; 科学研究; 学术研究
  • His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查,但没有发现什么。
  • He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。
11 corrupt
v.贿赂,收买;adj.腐败的,贪污的
  • The newspaper alleged the mayor's corrupt practices.那家报纸断言市长有舞弊行为。
  • This judge is corrupt.这个法官贪污。
12 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。
学英语单词
acetizes
afrocypris maltia
antiphagocytic sera
apexes together
Baker,Newton Diehl
bank estate
bisection algorithm
boundary layer profiler
branch conditional
brothers in law
business for profit
buttu
carter's spread
celeritous
celery-like
chalcedony-opal
charons
chemical industrial company
chief cell adenoma
Chloropseidae
cleared altitude
cloracetadol
CNDW
common perpendicular
crossed-coil measuring
crusted prejudice
crystalline chert
curtailment of operation
cylindromatous
d'ag
damper segment
deposit dose
desalting
dextrolateral
diphosphoribulose carboxylase
directo-executive
drysalteries
duckburgers
el ni?o
enqueres
equijoin
estate agent
fast-fermentation
formation of gas
frays
genus phleums
genus violas
germophobia
Gibbethon
goodo
haswelite
hieromancy
hydrogenated residuum
icositetrachorons
intermediate ceiling
investment worthy of compensation
jeffry
Kunžvart
Labobo, Pulau
laser gasification
lentil ore (liroconite)
link by-link signaling
matters of law
maximum dynamic error
maximum undistorted power output
meirion-jones
millenniarism
moving electron
MPHBIM
mud circulation volume
navigational plot
non Canadian ship compliance certificate
non-monetary transactions
not have a penny to one's name
packaged refinery
Paraprenanthes multiformis
Petabyte Age
pin head
Pius VI
proude
Qin Mountains
quarker
racing-type foam-filled rubber fuel cell
rendaku
seismologic station
semantic tree
sharpening room
sinnses paranasales
spinal fluids
spoiling
stapp
stepping forward
subterraneous outcrop
supplementaries
taken by
tasto
terminal drying
thinkling
Tungooses
turtleweed
unvernalized
wax-myrtle family