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
a-lists
accession to manhood
actural deflection
africanizations
agelongs
americaine
american national standard labels
ashram
avenolith
ball transfer table
bandhavgarh
beard lichen
Bou Hanifia, Barrage de
break-journey
british capture clause
Chinese alligators
class of vehicle
cleane
coiled key
commemoration coin
compatible single side-band
constant definition
Corocoro, L.
Council of Chalcedon
cryptodome
cumulative preference shares
domain of function
drive key
dynamic IP
electric lighting act (u.k.)
end cell system
expansionary monetary policy
face to
felled sale
Ferdinand IV
fishing worms
flatulency
freedom of the seas
gelito-precollinite coal
general visual inspection
grugel
Hamilton, Alexander
hercogamy
Hilltonia
hotelschool
HPCB
huallagas
hydraulic pressure nozzle
indian capitals
insect-repellings
jequirity
kreegers
less than car load shipment
Lunda cirrhata
machinery Q-switch
microinferences
mock leno weave
monumental
Nansangaan
national treatment clause
negative colloid
Nerium indicum Mill.
Nkonko
nonpigmented
oipo
operating origin
organic sulfur chemistry
parallel intergrowth
pericystitis
personal remark
pipeline leak
plane director
pnagus indicens
professional liability insurance
projection beam
put in mind
re-roofing
reform tub
refractory behaviour
remittent temperature
restrainers
Rzeczka
Samuel Rawson Gardiner
scaptodrosophila decipiens
Selove receiver
serial data transmission
set point adjuster
single arm measurement method
slumbersome
solution polymerized rubber
sono elasticity
studs
subgroup blood
tabular epithelium
temperated
throttling refrigerator
unbishopped
underruffed
viperish
virgenes
water pump seal retainer
wool noil