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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Oil giant BP has suffered another difficult day with shares plunging 1 almost 7 percent on the London markets. The drop wiped out more than eight million dollars of value with the company.


Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will today try to sell his proposed super profits tax to a key mining city in Queensland. Mr. Rudd is expected to promise around two billion dollars for building projects in mining centres. Two days of negotiations 2 with miners in Perth have achieved little.


Ten Indonesian men charged with people smuggling 3 will appear in a Brisbane court this morning. Yesterday, the group was moved from an interstate detention 4 centre to the Brisbane watch-house. The ABC understands 40 more people smugglers from interstate detention centres are being transferred to Brisbane for court appearances.


A UN war crime tribunal has sentenced two Bosnian Serbs to life in prison for genocide for their role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre 5. The men were army chiefs in the Bosnian Serb army which was blamed for the massacre of more than 7,000 Muslims. Four other officers and a police official were also jailed for war crimes and crimes against humanity.


And Australia has officially pulled out of the running to host the 2018 Soccer World Cup. Instead, it will concentrate now on bidding for the 2022 event. This leaves the door open for a European nation to host the game in 2018.



1 plunging
adj.跳进的,突进的v.颠簸( plunge的现在分词 );暴跌;骤降;突降
  • War broke out again, plunging the people into misery and suffering. 战祸复发,生灵涂炭。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • He is plunging into an abyss of despair. 他陷入了绝望的深渊。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 negotiations
协商( negotiation的名词复数 ); 谈判; 完成(难事); 通过
  • negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
  • Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。
3 smuggling
n.走私
  • Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。
  • The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。
4 detention
n.滞留,停留;拘留,扣留;(教育)留下
  • He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
  • He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。
5 massacre
n.残杀,大屠杀;v.残杀,集体屠杀
  • There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中,这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
  • If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀,大屠杀就有可能再次发生!
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Agva
ALGERNON
Amilan
ammonium gluconate
amyloidogenesis
Armenian
baker's stigma
Balice
beta-asbumosease
Better late than never.
boiling spring
Carduus bendictus
carimbose
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carthagena cotton
cell winding
centrocubus cladostylus
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Crombie
data cable
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dummy cell
effervescing potion
field games
First Family
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fluoroform
Foley I.
Friedman's curve
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geological times
ghoulie
greenset
high resolution gamma-ray spectrometer
hydroanthophyllite
hydroxyethyl starch
Internet Governance Forum
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lawhe
levoxyl
magnetic cut-out
mapharsen
mathematics for business
Megacodon
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michelia compressa sarg.
Mount Cenis Tunnel
next best thing
object oriented program
oligarchy of finance capital
outweirds
overall check
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pledge against a loan
plesiophthalmus nigroaeneum
present worth basis for comparison
prismatic dislocation
pyrazogin
raymarching
reform experimentation
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replaceabilities
resin rock bolt
right minded
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Rumex crispus
saturable cores
Self-directed IRA
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Three Pagodas P.
trigonal point
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Verwoerd, Hendrik Frensch
virtual process
Whitesloanea
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your ladyship