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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Residents in northeast and western Victoria are bracing 1 for the worst today as floodwaters continue to rise. Sixty residents in the town of Wangaratta in the state’s northeast have been told to evacuate 2. In Victoria’s west, residents at Skipton near Ballarat have also been asked to leave their homes. More than 250 houses have already been flooded.


Work resumed this morning to clear fallen trees and damaged roofs in parts of New South Wales that were hit by a severe storm. One hundred thousand houses in the Illawarra and Shoalhaven regions lost power at the peak of the storm as winds of 100km/h brought down power lines.


The three federal independent MPs hope to decide either today or tomorrow just which party they’ll support to form government. Labor’s agreed to the set of parliamentary reform proposals put forward by Rob Oakeshott. But the Coalition 3 says it’s important that any changes do not disadvantage the Opposition 4.


First it was the quake; now strong winds are threatening to do more damage to the New Zealand city of Christchurch. Strong aftershocks have continued to shake the shattered city after Saturday’s 7.1-magnitude quake. Police said the 130 km/h winds could bring down unstable 5 bricks and masonry 6.


And American soldiers have been called in to help Iraqi forces battle insurgents 7 just days after the US formally ended combat operations in the country. The insurgents attacked an army base in Baghdad, killing 8 at least 12 people. An Iraqi officer says US forces exchanged gunfire with the attackers before Iraqi security forces stormed the building.



1 bracing
adj.令人振奋的
  • The country is bracing itself for the threatened enemy invasion. 这个国家正准备奋起抵抗敌人的入侵威胁。
  • The atmosphere in the new government was bracing. 新政府的气氛是令人振奋的。
2 evacuate
v.遣送;搬空;抽出;排泄;大(小)便
  • We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵!
  • They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
3 coalition
n.结合体,同盟,结合,联合
  • The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
  • Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
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 unstable
adj.不稳定的,易变的
  • This bookcase is too unstable to hold so many books.这书橱很不结实,装不了这么多书。
  • The patient's condition was unstable.那患者的病情不稳定。
6 masonry
n.砖土建筑;砖石
  • Masonry is a careful skill.砖石工艺是一种精心的技艺。
  • The masonry of the old building began to crumble.旧楼房的砖石结构开始崩落。
7 insurgents
n.起义,暴动,造反( insurgent的名词复数 )
  • The regular troops of Baden joined the insurgents. 巴登的正规军参加到起义军方面来了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Against the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents, these problems are manageable. 要对付塔利班与伊拉克叛乱分子,这些问题还是可以把握住的。 来自互联网
8 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
学英语单词
abbreviatory
aggregate corporation
algebraic correspondence
alum-carmine
anticipated fixed cost
approach-control radar
asphalt tile
azacyclobutene
Bad Salzuflen
bipinnatifid leaf
bit of skirt
cafeteria trays
cake boy
chin-cough
claw-hammer
coil brake
commeasurable
core nodal switching system
craniate
cryosurgery of prostate
denotation impulse
destroyer stern
Dirofilaria repens
discontinue an action
discoverment
dodge a creditor
DS-DAG
electrodynamometers
epipedon
exothermic paint
extreme upper atmosphere
foumarts
Furilin
ganj
gas source molecular beam epitaxy
genus Lampropeltis
geodesic radome
glyoctamide
grey amber
grid bias detection
have a rare time of it
hereditary univalent
hoots
Hyǒn-ri
impanators
in the track of
indigoids
indoxyl-sulfuric acid
International Committee on Weights and Measures
ishindi
jasplakinolide
jerrie
ladds
large rocket
local disease
m. semispinalis dorsi
main cargo line
mathewsons
minimal tillage
monotone operator
moxon
NADA-TR
nepotists
nerr
network schedule for construction of nuclear power plant
Nitraria sibirica
OPS83
parhierodula (parhierodula) venosa
pH-recorder
philodicus chinensis
potential gain
primary amenorrhea
protective homogenization technique
recourse for non-payment
renin-angiotensin-aldosterones
representative property
reversed bending
Romanizations
runner cup
same-sex marriage
scale film
semi-synthetic penicillins
shin-sock
slice time
splayed jamb
standard pull tension cable
starting wave in traffic flow
steering worm roller bearing
stem to stem
straight connector
terrorcore
thematic structure
to make a choice
torpitude
uniters
unmanacling
vanhook
viminea
workmeter
x-ray spectroscopy
zoxazoiamine