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
accelerated at growing rate
air superiority fighter
asynchronous concurrent event
Ava Gardner
avares
back order memo
baigent
banked secondary
carry a load of debt
Choanotaenia
clerodendrum calamitosum
clivia nobilis lindl.
column count
conditioning theory
contract transport
control variable of program
crab slewing mechanism
crepe embossing
did away with
double curved line
dressing gowns
dropoffs
effective humidity
electric-field
emolumentary
eosinophilic adenoma
Eriocheir sinensis
ethylethanolamine
exoccipital
eye-rubbing
flat skin
fucosterol
full wave power supply
fusible covering
geophysics of Mars
Godfrey's cordial
herba veratri nigri
horizontal maxilla fracture
intra-class correlation coefficient
jujuba
kataphalanx
keifs
kroehnkite
lemanek
Lobelia doniana
magnetic belt separator
marverer
metal corrugated plate
methopterin
minimum size
momsers
monopoly behavior experiments
mushroom head screw
narrow fire box
nice money
night-ravens
no-doc
no-fire current
nonterminal alphabet
orkney is. (orkneys)
Orobanche solmsii
palmpressing
part of speech
periguloside
peripheral chamber
Phentanyl
pokals
political spheres
polymethyl methacrylate resin
private branch exchange (pbx)
proartacris taiwanensis
protrude
quadratic reciprocity
rate of productivity
relinquishes
rice transplanter
RNA
rotor control assembly
rowlet
Salling Sd.
siderometer
spear point
St-Pierreville
stomatomenia
subsidiary documents
take delivery of the goods
talk, etc. nineteen to the dozen
telecommunication services
telocentrics
terrace ridge afforestation
threshing performance
transformer oilproof board
truncus arteriosis
Uc Son
uniplanar flow
variable longshore current
variable name
Viburnum prunifolium
vindicativeness
viprostol
wetted contour
wiandt