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
accrued taxes payable
adawed
albuquerque-based
analytical standard
Anattotree
basic cycle
be affected by cold
beef side
biconditional
blanking impulse generator
broad-footed rail
Burk'a
chemico-thermal treatment
clod separator
coil height
colloredo
crawling crane
Dataquest
deficiency-cold
dicastic
displaced employee
downtoners
dry deck shelter
electronic reverser
excurrent
exitted
fissured pelvis
fixed propeller
four bar mechanism
front cutting edge
gamow-teller selection rule
gentleman of quality
gypsum partition tile
highly-paids
hippophilia
historicness
hot trim
Hypericum sampsonii
immunoheterogeneity
inannas
isochron method
Jianzhen (SI9)
kanbans
ketosubstrate
lig. corniculopharyngicum
locked cell protected
lving
macrourus
melisse
metal oxide semiconductor transistor
milk-curdling ferment
mortar factor
myogenic sarcoma
N-Methylphenothiazine
numerical aspects
opportunity class
pancreatin
Panjang, Tg.
party-hearties
pepsigogue
phrase structures
physical etch
pole dab
postcondensation
pseudo-automorphism
referencing
residential account
round - trip flight
sealed-in nozzles
sela
semi-radial reciprocating compressor
Shirebrook
single-glassed window
sleeve armature
spell work
splanchnosclerosis
subsartorial plexus
sulfofatty acid salt
surface mining methods
T. A. T.
tack-rooms
takes chances
talk of the devil
tangent-sphere method
tate-beche
telescoped ice
thermal shock fatigue
threaded valve stem
tracery parapet
Tremellineae
ultratoxon
undermining resorption
uneven contest
uniform traffic
unjustifiable deviation
urims
varistructured system
voltage and frequency response
white squire
wide ga(u)ge
worshipers
zinc fluoride