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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More than 300,000 extra premises 1 will be connected to the National Broadband Network than originally planned. NBN coverage 2 maps to be unveiled today by the Federal Government show the network will provide fibre optic coverage to 93 per cent of residences. That's up from its original estimate of 90 per cent.


The former Labor 3 leader Mark Latham believes Kevin Rudd is behind the Cabinet leaks that have undermined Julia Gillard's election campaign. This week it was reported that Ms Gillard argued against the paid parental 4 leave scheme and a raise in the age pension. When fingers pointed 5 to Mr Rudd as a source of the leak, Ms Gillard and Treasurer 6 Wayne Swan defended him.


A three-million-dollar compensation payment to the family of an Aboriginal 7 elder who died in custody 8 has been described as inadequate 9. The 47-year-old man, known as Mr Ward 10 died from heatstroke while being transported in the back of a prison van in Western Australia. The Deaths in Custody Watch Committee says it will continue to push for criminal action.


In Pakistan, floods caused by heavy monsoon 11 rains have killed at least 100 people. Dozens of people drowned in the worst affected 12 areas in the country's northwest. Others were electrocuted or buried under the rubble 13 of collapsed 14 buildings.


And a woman has confessed to suffocating 15 eight newborn children and hiding their bodies in a village in France. The bodies were found wrapped in plastic bags at two homes near the northern city of Lille.



1 premises
n.建筑物,房屋
  • According to the rules,no alcohol can be consumed on the premises.按照规定,场内不准饮酒。
  • All repairs are done on the premises and not put out.全部修缮都在家里进行,不用送到外面去做。
2 coverage
n.报导,保险范围,保险额,范围,覆盖
  • There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
  • This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。
3 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
4 parental
adj.父母的;父的;母的
  • He encourages parental involvement in the running of school.他鼓励学生家长参与学校的管理。
  • Children always revolt against parental disciplines.孩子们总是反抗父母的管束。
5 pointed
adj.尖的,直截了当的
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
6 treasurer
n.司库,财务主管
  • Mr. Smith was succeeded by Mrs.Jones as treasurer.琼斯夫人继史密斯先生任会计。
  • The treasurer was arrested for trying to manipulate the company's financial records.财务主管由于试图窜改公司财政帐目而被拘留。
7 aboriginal
adj.(指动植物)土生的,原产地的,土著的
  • They managed to wipe out the entire aboriginal population.他们终于把那些土著人全部消灭了。
  • The lndians are the aboriginal Americans.印第安人是美国的土著人。
8 custody
n.监护,照看,羁押,拘留
  • He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
  • He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后,他立即被押了起来。
9 inadequate
adj.(for,to)不充足的,不适当的
  • The supply is inadequate to meet the demand.供不应求。
  • She was inadequate to the demands that were made on her.她还无力满足对她提出的各项要求。
10 ward
n.守卫,监护,病房,行政区,由监护人或法院保护的人(尤指儿童);vt.守护,躲开
  • The hospital has a medical ward and a surgical ward.这家医院有内科病房和外科病房。
  • During the evening picnic,I'll carry a torch to ward off the bugs.傍晚野餐时,我要点根火把,抵挡蚊虫。
11 monsoon
n.季雨,季风,大雨
  • The monsoon rains started early this year.今年季雨降雨开始得早。
  • The main climate type in that region is monsoon.那个地区主要以季风气候为主要气候类型。
12 affected
adj.不自然的,假装的
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
13 rubble
n.(一堆)碎石,瓦砾
  • After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后,花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
  • After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
14 collapsed
adj.倒塌的
  • Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
  • The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
15 suffocating
a.使人窒息的
  • After a few weeks with her parents, she felt she was suffocating.和父母呆了几个星期后,她感到自己毫无自由。
  • That's better. I was suffocating in that cell of a room.这样好些了,我刚才在那个小房间里快闷死了。
学英语单词
(R)-loxiglumide
abluded
active pressure
akumide
automatic roasting furnace
automotive design
balla
binary convolutional encoding
botment
buffed
cablecasts
catalysis element
chuck ... away
combined application
coming before
compiler manager
corn-picker
cost - of - living index
counter-offer
cross-stimulation
cylinder force
decomposition mechanism
detonating velocity
dextrane
digital data delay distortion
dimethylesculetin
DJSM
dorsal rays
Dublin Core
electrothermostal
Eucharistial
fast-laner
feed drum
financial accounting
flash media
flenge
flow bean choke
grading automatic sorter
gropeth
Harker Point
image of
imbricaria olivaeformis
imitation champagne
in memoriam
incentive compatibility
inscrolls
interprocess communications
Isles-sur-Suippe
james espy
lemakalim
litigious matter
Lopping-axe
lymphangiosarcoma
MacGyvering
mackaroon
MAG welding (metal active gas arc welding)
maisteresse
Maple-wax
mastonia rubra
Mdiq
metal-poor star
moighte
mucosus
NAIRS
nonpressure parts
nonsticky
normal hydrometer
onuss
OP (operation permit)
Ostellato
Pancrudo
pharyngotom
platypleura hilpa
podded propulsion system
prints off
projection printer
recovery.gov
rediffusion
republics of the marshall islands
reservoir sedimentation computation
rhythm guitar
samoud
sapatya (philippines)
simple branched acinar gland
sitogluside
size milk
space width of wormwheel
spathous
static test mode
step-by-step motor
thermoelectric property
thessalias
thistle funnel
thunder-gust
trumpet-shapeds
turfbound
two-layered ectoderm
universal galvanometer
user prompts
vegoil
Walter, Mitty
warm-up system