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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A poll shows that the Rudd Government would lose in an election if it was held today. The Nelson poll conducted for Fairfax, shows the Coalition 1 leads Labor 2 on a two-party preferred basis by 53% to 47%. That's an increase of three percentage points for the Coalition in a month.


 


Australian Federal Police are investigating the internet giant Google over alleged 3 privacy breaches 4. It's alleged that workers unlawfully collected information from wireless 5 networks while taking photos for its Street View program. Google says it mistakenly collected the data. But the Government says the company may have breached 6 the Telecommunications Interception 7 Act.


 


Israel's ambassador to the United States says his country will reject a proposed international commission to investigate its deadly raid on a Gaza aid flotilla. Israel's deporting 8 another 19 activists 9 from an Irish-owned boat that was prevented from breaking the blockade at the weekend.


 


Tornadoes 10 and storms have swept across the US Midwest, killing 11 five people in Ohio and Michigan. At least 50 homes were destroyed and scores more were have damaged. Authorities in northwest Ohio are still searching through homes and it's unclear whether anyone else at this stage is missing.


 


And the Government will subsidize the insurance of private practice midwives from today. And to the new laws, pregnant women will also have the costs of midwifery services covered by Medicare from November.



1 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。
2 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。
3 alleged
a.被指控的,嫌疑的
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
4 breaches
破坏( breach的名词复数 ); 破裂; 缺口; 违背
  • He imposed heavy penalties for breaches of oath or pledges. 他对违反誓言和保证的行为给予严厉的惩罚。
  • This renders all breaches of morality before marriage very uncommon. 这样一来,婚前败坏道德的事就少见了。
5 wireless
adj.无线的;n.无线电
  • There are a lot of wireless links in a radio.收音机里有许多无线电线路。
  • Wireless messages tell us that the ship was sinking.无线电报告知我们那艘船正在下沉。
6 breached
攻破( breach的现在分词 ); 破坏,违反
  • These commitments have already been breached. 这些承诺已遭背弃。
  • Our tanks have breached the enemy defences. 我方坦克车突破了敌人的防线。
7 interception
n.拦截;截击;截取;截住,截断;窃听
  • Aerial photography can provide valuable information on precipitation, evapotraspiration, interception, and runoff. 航空摄影可提供有关降水量、蒸发蒸腾量、入渗和径流量的有价值的资料。
  • Light interception and distribution in hedgerow orchards with different alleyway widths is indicated in Fig. 56. 图56显示篱壁果园不同行间宽度的光能截取和分配的情况。
8 deporting
v.将…驱逐出境( deport的现在分词 );举止
9 activists
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
10 tornadoes
n.龙卷风,旋风( tornado的名词复数 )
  • Tornadoes, severe earthquakes, and plagues create wide spread havoc. 龙卷风、大地震和瘟疫成普遍的毁坏。 来自互联网
  • Meteorologists are at odds over the working of tornadoes. 气象学者对龙卷风的运动方式看法不一。 来自互联网
11 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
A-weighted decibels
al-libi
allergologist
amberite
arctic survey boat
before-tax
Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
building bay
bumfeage
calamus tetradactylus hance
Carex subfilicinoides
cargo without bill of lading
cincinnati-area
cold gluing
cosmic-ray meson
coulter knife
current task
D2 radio source
diplodactylid
Dunafalva
editorial article
electronic billing computor
epinephrin
essentialspecies
fire go on
fixated behavior
friday-sept
group dynamics training
guiding nut
handkerchief map
high-level programmer interface
human herpesvirus 8
imbrocate
ingression speed
intersymbol(ic) interference
Inzhavino
isochronal performance test
Juncus modicus
keehn
kium
Laifour
laved
locked-on
Lokris
lutherism
magnetic flux in spot
magnetic properties
make against
megachile sauteri
mental faculty
misapplying
Moffat Mills
motherkin
neurodamaging
non-decimal system
non-diffusible calcium
omnidirectional ranging
out-of-hours
outflankers
overlavishly
pace cars
pelorial
pentachromium dicarbide
Pharmacopeia of Japan
plague bubonica
Ponzo illusion
porle
precombustion chamber
procurement of materials
profit centres
progress payments
propaculum
propagation of wave
putaminal
refrigerator thermometer
remaining unbalanced friction factor
revival meeting
rollster
Rothenthal
sand-bed
sculd
selection of main equipment
set the tone
she-bitch
smoked mackerel
solitary tapeworm
statutorily
sulcomarginal tract
Sunnitised
switching control
tanveer
tauriform
Tenerife, I.
thals
totters
treatment in accordance with local condition
Trichlorphene
UNIKOM
vaginal areoles
vertical double action presses
Watson-Crick
Wilson equation