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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Complaints have already started about Julia Gillard's new ministry 1 that hasn't even been sworn in. The prime minister has upset universities by splitting education between at least two ministers. They say putting higher education under Senator Chris Evans' skills portfolio 2 devalues the sector 3. The Opposition 4 is also questioning Kevin Rudd's ability as foreign minister to negotiate setting up an asylum 5 seekers' processing center in East Timor.


Police say the trans-Tasman crackdown on alcohol-fuelled violence and anti-social behavior has been a success. More than 1,200 people have been arrested during the weekend's blitz. New South Wales led the tally 6 with more than 700 arrests.


Victoria's arson 7 squad 8 has confirmed it's investigating a series of insulation 9 fires at several locations. It's believed they are related to the Federal Government's bungled 10 home insulation program. Police say it's an ongoing 11 investigation 12 and they can't give any more details.


The worst seems to be over in Victoria's flood emergency. While mopping-up continues in most of the flood-affected areas, the focus is now on the Murray River town of Echuca.


And Iran is set to release an American woman jailed more than a year ago. Sarah Shourd was charged with spying after straying across the country's border with two fellow hikers. But she will now be released on half a million dollars' bail 13.



1 ministry
n.(政府的)部;牧师
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
2 portfolio
n.公事包;文件夹;大臣及部长职位
  • He remembered her because she was carrying a large portfolio.他因为她带着一个大公文包而记住了她。
  • He resigned his portfolio.他辞去了大臣职务。
3 sector
n.部门,部分;防御地段,防区;扇形
  • The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
  • The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。
4 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。
5 asylum
n.避难所,庇护所,避难
  • The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
  • Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。
6 tally
n.计数器,记分,一致,测量;vt.计算,记录,使一致;vi.计算,记分,一致
  • Don't forget to keep a careful tally of what you spend.别忘了仔细记下你的开支账目。
  • The facts mentioned in the report tally to every detail.报告中所提到的事实都丝毫不差。
7 arson
n.纵火,放火
  • He was serving a ten spot for arson.他因纵火罪在服十年徒刑。
  • He was arraigned on a charge of arson.他因被指控犯纵火罪而被传讯。
8 squad
n.班,小队,小团体;vt.把…编成班或小组
  • The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
  • A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。
9 insulation
n.隔离;绝缘;隔热
  • Please examine the insulation of the electric wires in my house.请检查一下我屋子里电线的绝缘情况。
  • It is always difficult to assure good insulation between the electric leads.要保证两个电触头之间有良好的绝缘总是很困难的。
10 bungled
v.搞糟,完不成( bungle的过去式和过去分词 );笨手笨脚地做;失败;完不成
  • They bungled the job. 他们把活儿搞糟了。
  • John bungled the job. 约翰把事情搞糟了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
11 ongoing
adj.进行中的,前进的
  • The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
  • The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。
12 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。
13 bail
v.舀(水),保释;n.保证金,保释,保释人
  • One of the prisoner's friends offered to bail him out.犯人的一个朋友答应保释他出来。
  • She has been granted conditional bail.她被准予有条件保释。
学英语单词
aboriginal people
anthropology department
antiwetting
be distant towards sb
beta waves
biocodes
bloomless
blow football
Capitolium
Chicana studies
Chinese wallpaper
chrysophytas
claxon
co-discoverer
collector to-emitter current gain
color quantum number
combat operating mode management
company ordinance
culturecide
Diphyllobothrium taenioides
disorganized speech
draw cutting
dyna
fan-stoppage methane-monitor breaker
feature deduction
female bird
firefighting tug
floorings
froises
gains and losses
gapless rail
gas reforming
gender-bender
hadro-
hemagglutinating
high-chromium stainless steel
hydrohaemostasis
Iisvesi
incident field
incineration at sea
industrial hamony
initial state manifold
jet testing
Kommunizm
Lebanize, Lebanonize
left life
limited election
literal-mindeds
longsight
mechanical-type exhauster
Megalotinus
mowries
multicasting
night alarm relay
nine-ring
norma sagittalis
normal magnetic moment
not on your life!
obnebulate
Old North Church
Ormosia boluoensis
oxidized odo(u)r
paid annual vacation
paid home
paper disk method
phono connector
pig ken mixer
Pokorni
powermac
pre-inspection
quadrupolar
queuosine
quilombos
raffinose
rat bandicoot
rhodesian sleeping-sickness
rotap
rough-dry
runway-edge lights
scsis
sensory presbyacusia
singlists
small globethistle
society for automation in business education
sodium diborane
space request
spot dancing
state of marine environment
the trouble is that...
timelike line
tortillas
transdominant
true class action
turkey-like
twisted-pair cable
unexecuting
ungalvanized iron and steel
valorisation
web belt
well pavilion
wild rosemaries
wrap drivebar