时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2010年


英语课

Prime Minister Julia Gillard is expected to take a tougher approach to border protection when she announces her policy on asylum 1 seekers this week. Cabinet will today discuss the future of Sri Lankan asylum seekers who've been left in limbo 2 since May. The Government suspended processing of


their refugee claims but the measure expires on Thursday.


A Melbourne man could face 12 years in a Bali jail after he was caught using cocaine 3. Indonesian police said Angus McCaskill was found carrying several packets of cocaine in his wallet. He told reporters he made a silly mistake and he took the cocaine after getting drunk watching the soccer World Cup.


An Australian AIDS expert says the world is facing a rolling holocaust 4 because millions of sufferers are denied life-saving treatment. Bill Bowtell who helped draft Australia's policy on AIDS, says the global financial crisis has slowed an international response to the pandemic.


The owners and captain of a ship that spilled 270,000 litres of oil off Queensland will face court today. The Pacific Adventurer captain and his employer, Swire Shipping 5, are charged with disposing of oil in coastal 6 waters and failing to notify authorities. The spill caused a major clean-up of Queensland beaches in 2009.



1 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。
2 limbo
n.地狱的边缘;监狱
  • His life seemed stuck in limbo and he could not go forward and he could not go back.他的生活好像陷入了不知所措的境地,进退两难。
  • I didn't know whether my family was alive or dead.I felt as if I was in limbo.我不知道家人是生是死,感觉自己茫然无措。
3 cocaine
n.可卡因,古柯碱(用作局部麻醉剂)
  • That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。
  • Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。
4 holocaust
n.大破坏;大屠杀
  • The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。
  • Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.内贾德否认大屠杀,因为他像希特勒一样残忍。
5 shipping
n.船运(发货,运输,乘船)
  • We struck a bargain with an American shipping firm.我们和一家美国船运公司谈成了一笔生意。
  • There's a shipping charge of £5 added to the price.价格之外另加五英镑运输费。
6 coastal
adj.海岸的,沿海的,沿岸的
  • The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
  • This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。
学英语单词
active immunotherapy
adducings
Amaranthus tricolor
Amomum chinense
angulus sterni
antonians
asynjur
auriphrygia
bakelite B
bendin'
blocking and tackling
brasfield
by-passed oil
cable loss compensator
Cash settlement contracts
chemical-mechanical
chilary layer
cloddy pulverescent structure
coldbooted
columnlike
conjoined twins
delayed scram capacity
diphenylarsine oxide
double cup bearing
dumb and dumber
dunsires
E-MLC
ejaculatorium
foreign Foreign Trade Arbitration Committee
gayfryd
giant nuclear resonances
grace commission
Green formula
Grindela
hardimen
Heegaard decompositions
hold out something
hypodiploid
in comparison
ituss
knockout dropss
learned reactions
Lieser
Live-in lover
loss of liberty
macroseismic observation
metallic paper
mid-infrared algaassb-ingaassb diode lasers
mixed card
mock-bird
myokinesimeter
naturist anarchist
Nierembergia frutescens
non continuous rolling mill
nonrebreathers
nucleating point
obligationary
old tyberculin
Ovshinsky
panorpa deceptor
pattern display
peaklet
pelikai
pencil attachment
physical instrument
plasmahaut
polar air mass climate
porphyrins
position indicator pointer
Primula socialis
production organization design
profit warranty
proximity focussed diode image intensifier
pulse therapeutic device
razumovsky
review prosecution
rostnikov
ruddle (red ocher)
shizukanolide
spanish daggers
spelled off
spice rack
staff officer
step connection
stransference of patents
Sunflower State
surplus milk
symplectic bone
target state
timing-gear gasket
tosetto
universal service directive
use of emulsifying agents
vampire squid
Vicia megalotropis
video accelerator
walk the line
wash-outs
willises
worker participation
wurman
yazhs