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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The United Nations report has paved the way for the Federal Government to take a much stronger stance against asylum 1 seekers. The High Commissioner 2 for Refugees report re-points to “greatly improved” security in Sri Lanka, and says it should not be presumed that Tamils now need asylum. The report will help the Government decide whether to continue its freeze on Sri Lankan refugee applications.


Turkey is threatening to cut ties with Israel for its deadly raid on a Turkish aid ship bound for Gaza. Turkey's foreign minister said Israel would lose its close ally unless it apologized or accepted a finding from an international commission investigating the incident. Israel says it has no intention of apologizing.


AFL player Ben Cousins will undergo a test today after spending the night in intensive care. Richmond club officials say he had an adverse 3 reaction to sleeping tablets. Cousins is a recovering drug addict 4, but the club says there is no suspicion his condition is related to the use of illicit 5 substances.


The board of the Reserve Bank will meet today and it's tipped to leave official interest rates on hold. Most economists 6 say volatile 7 global markets will force the RBA (Reserve Bank of Australia) to keep the cash rate at 4.5 percent.


And two police officers will today seek an injunction against disciplinary action proposed by Queensland's crime watchdog over the death of Cameron Doomadgee.



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 commissioner
n.(政府厅、局、处等部门)专员,长官,委员
  • The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
  • He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。
3 adverse
adj.不利的;有害的;敌对的,不友好的
  • He is adverse to going abroad.他反对出国。
  • The improper use of medicine could lead to severe adverse reactions.用药不当会产生严重的不良反应。
4 addict
v.使沉溺;使上瘾;n.沉溺于不良嗜好的人
  • He became gambling addict,and lost all his possessions.他习染上了赌博,最终输掉了全部家产。
  • He assisted a drug addict to escape from drug but failed firstly.一开始他帮助一个吸毒者戒毒但失败了。
5 illicit
adj.非法的,禁止的,不正当的
  • He had an illicit association with Jane.他和简曾有过不正当关系。
  • Seizures of illicit drugs have increased by 30% this year.今年违禁药品的扣押增长了30%。
6 economists
n.经济学家,经济专家( economist的名词复数 )
  • The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
  • Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 volatile
adj.反复无常的,挥发性的,稍纵即逝的,脾气火爆的;n.挥发性物质
  • With the markets being so volatile,investments are at great risk.由于市场那么变化不定,投资冒着很大的风险。
  • His character was weak and volatile.他这个人意志薄弱,喜怒无常。
学英语单词
accrual parity principle
accurate sweep generator
adiabatic twin calorimeter
airy's theory of isostasy
Americanizer
aminopherase
atheizes
automatic time element compensator
Block of Ice
bonally
brick coping on gable
bumper-to-bumper
celanite
circuit testing screwdriver
closure algebra
combined vibrating roller
compassionis
converge aircraft on the target
cutback
delusible
dependency school
detail shot
Erythrinae
escape wheel foot jewel
european corn borer moths
fabulistic
fallen to the ground
ferrimuscovite
fibre optic video modem
findrinny
fleur de lys
flotery
fraumeni
fresh water monitoring
fumariline
Gadaffi
genufacial position
genus Thevetia
gonna
grets
half-angel
handmirrors
heat of vapourization
Hillaby, Mt.
includent
internal division
k-ar dating method
Kairana
keeled garlics
lazy eight
letta
lettuce leaf
lierse
longitudinal dispersion
loyalty-scheme
magnetographs
make up sth
mankiewiczs
maxill-
miscellaneous manufacturing products
misphrasing
monocistronic messenger RNA
musculi thyreohyoideus
musical-comedy
Nitrofurmethone
out-dated
overbreaks
palagis
partial radiation pyrometer
pasteurellosis of cattle
physiology of bone
polar movement
praens
program budget
quasi-linear theory
read ... a lecture
rectococcygeal
refortifies
relocatable emulator
rolls-on rolls-off
semihydrobenzoin rearrangement
single-race
spiroxepin
split tickets
spoused
starchless
surpassingly
take a pass
Tarenna austrosinensis
technical tallow
temporalward
terrain storage
thermo-shock test
thick milk
tolerability
traffic patterns
Urdharvötn
vaporer
vibrating impacter
walling scaffold
weaving the bead
ziff-davis