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 Prime Minister Julia Gillard is this morning poised 1 to announce a deal with the big miners on the super profits tax. It's understood the deal could include lifting the rate which the super profits tax kicks in. The headline rate of 40 percent may also be cut.


At least 35 people have been killed in three suicide attacks in a Muslim shrine 2. More than 100 others were injured when bombers 3 targeted the Sufi shrine in Lahore in the city in the country's east. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.


The International Cricket Council has given Cricket Australia until the end of August to offer another vice 4 presidential candidate. The ICC has rejected the former prime minister John Howard’s bid for the job. Mr Howard has returned to Australia from Singapore but he's refusing to withdraw his nomination 5.


Lawyers for former Queensland doctor Mohamed Haneef say a defamation 6 case will only go ahead if a compensation settlement isn’t reached. Dr Haneef was arrested after failed terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow in 2007. He had his visa cancelled. But the case against him collapsed 7.


And the Australian Medical Association says the Jayant Patel case could undermine confidence in doctors and surgeons across the country. Patel has been sentenced to seven years in jail for the manslaughter of three patients at Bundaberg’s Base Hospital between 2003 and 2005 as well as inflicting 8 grievous bodily harm on a fourth man.



1 poised
a.摆好姿势不动的
  • The hawk poised in mid-air ready to swoop. 老鹰在半空中盘旋,准备俯冲。
  • Tina was tense, her hand poised over the telephone. 蒂娜心情紧张,手悬在电话机上。
2 shrine
n.圣地,神龛,庙;v.将...置于神龛内,把...奉为神圣
  • The shrine was an object of pilgrimage.这处圣地是人们朝圣的目的地。
  • They bowed down before the shrine.他们在神龛前鞠躬示敬。
3 bombers
n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 );投弹手;安非他明胶囊;大麻叶香烟
  • Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 vice
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
5 nomination
n.提名,任命,提名权
  • John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
  • Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。
6 defamation
n.诽谤;中伤
  • Character defamation can be either oral or written.人格诽谤既可以是口头的也可以是书面的。
  • The company sued for defamation.这个公司因受到诽谤而提起诉讼。
7 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。
8 inflicting
把…强加给,使承受,遭受( inflict的现在分词 )
  • He was charged with maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm. 他被控蓄意严重伤害他人身体。
  • It's impossible to do research without inflicting some pain on animals. 搞研究不让动物遭点罪是不可能的。
学英语单词
ainis
Alfie Bass
allowable operating current range
anal blood gill
anticyclogenesis
artesian discharge
ask for leave
astern maneuvering valve
autodermic
be swayed by prejudice
beeter
bergamot pear
bottari
bowlingite
bulls eye
cock carrying platform
color bar Y buffer
come to a dead end
Commission on Narcotic Drugs
consumer expenditure income pattern
container fork lift
depth charge exploder
devorations
dialectical statement
divisibilities
dressel
dumb down
ec-
El Uarot
elastic restraint
end land width
equips
erythroferrone
exemplificator
extensible markup language parser
family historian
femoral scute
field ion microscopy(FIM)
foration
gas sampling
gdcf
Georges Bizet
gotten some air
Horizontal Stripe
incomplexly
isoenzyme isozyme
lichees
life linesman
Ligularia przewalskii
Lobomonas
low-speed agitator
mariage blanc
meter-candle
middling purifier
midepigastric plane
most obviously
nonfollicular
nonreference
object image coincidence method
operation of controller
oxophenamidum
pajaros
pedal operated directional valve
periphrasic
pomiferas
potassium bitartrates
presco
present historic
program debugging
prostomial palp
recipe for disaster
reinforcement layup
rock rip-rap
Saint-Yrieix
show deference to
sound duct
sparklinkage
stomachic
store access cycle
stovetops
sulfosuccinate
table speed
the Channel
tiletamine
to the memory of sb
torpedo stop
tortaxis mirus
Traffic Safety Committee
tungsten-carbide composition
unamortized share-issuing expenses
undamped navigation mode
universal joint transmission flange
us sars
voltage-controlled shift register
wassermann tests
watering hole attack
wave shoaling coefficient
waveguide twists
X-LA
X-ray fluoresce readout analyser
xylosidase
zooms in