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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Israel has hinted at a compromise with the Palestinians as direct talks between Middle East leaders begin in Washington. Israel's defence minister said the Jewish state would be willing to hand over parts of Jerusalem to the Palestinians. The US President Barack Obama is hosting those talks between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Mr Obama says acts of violence in the meantime will not derail these talks.


Police in the United States have shot dead a man who was holding several hostages in the state of Maryland. The man took at least three hostages inside the headquarters of the Discovery Channel. Police say the man entered the building with a handgun, and was believed to have an explosive device strapped 1 to his chest. All the hostages are now safe.


The sole survivor 2 of a plane crash in Papua New Guinea is being treated in a north Queensland hospital. The New Zealand man was flown to Townsville on a plane chartered by Careflight New South Wales. Four men died when that Trans Air jet crashed at the end of a runway on Misima Island yesterday. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is investigating the cause of the crash.


The New South Wales Premier 3 Kristina Keneally is in damage control this morning after the resignation of a fourth minister in less than a year. The Ports and Waterways Minister Paul McLeay resigned yesterday after accessing pornographic and gambling 4 websites on his work computer. He was caught out by a new internet filter in state parliament and a small number of other parliamentary internet users may require further investigation 5 as well.



1 strapped
adj.用皮带捆住的,用皮带装饰的;身无分文的;缺钱;手头紧v.用皮带捆扎(strap的过去式和过去分词);用皮带抽打;包扎;给…打绷带
  • Make sure that the child is strapped tightly into the buggy. 一定要把孩子牢牢地拴在婴儿车上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The soldiers' great coats were strapped on their packs. 战士们的厚大衣扎捆在背包上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 survivor
n.生存者,残存者,幸存者
  • The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
  • There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。
3 premier
adj.首要的;n.总理,首相
  • The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
  • He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。
4 gambling
n.赌博;投机
  • They have won a lot of money through gambling.他们赌博赢了很多钱。
  • The men have been gambling away all night.那些人赌了整整一夜。
5 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。
学英语单词
altered distribution of mucosal folds
angiolysis
Anglo-Burmese Wars
arachnoid layer
armillarilin
Asset Swap
automated direct access to information
black-necked swans
blenching
bounced check
branch off
bug-hunters
CCC
chasee
chulpayev
coiled radiator
convection transfer rate
converter generator
danneskiold
disabling statute
disendowment
ditopogamy
dowried
dSph
economic vigor
embryoscopies
Evenki Autonomous Okrug
feed check valve
film boiling range
first-strikest
flexor digiti minimi brevis
food-born
frequency recorder
frequency theory of nerve impulse
Gelbensande
glossanthrax
goosh
granite linoleum
ground general stability
heavy dust loss
hinge line's for inner skirt
house wrecker
humourlessly
ideat
indian sub - continent
inhibitively
internal heat source thermo-conduction
john mccain
krigsten
Kyivans
large-signal current gain
loop unit
Luthuli, Albert John
Lydian
Mercury-Neohydrin
merica
mesial migration
microanatomic
mid - term test
multicolour press
muniting
musculus unipennatus
nonexciting
on-the-job professional training
opera-cloak
order independence
oscillatory initial value
oxalethyline
pantalette
party state
PBP
pce
photoelectric function generator
Pirozpur
postfundibular eminence
power supply boat
prime vertical circle
Prouhet-Tarry-Escott problem
ptereleotris microlepis
puntius snyderi
Quashie
rectified recording
Rhynchosia chinensis
Roman arch
Sabia paniculata
Selection Sunday
sonofagun
sorghum nitidum nitidum
state-space
Stenogramma
stone-dead
Striatifera
sylvestriss
the welfare state
thermally induced unbalance
velocity inertial radar navigation system
VRBC
war machine
waume
Whim Creek
wobble position