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!
学英语单词
A.S.W.
absolute permittivity of vacuum
ACAU
account as recorded in a ledger
age-blackened
aggrandise
alumina fibers
alumina minium
analytical model
andis
Antidorcas
balanced reaction rudder
bare one's teeth
belted plaid
biographette
blizzak
bottle-top
businesswoman
car registration
caryomitome
cat walk bridge
catarrhal
cement conveyer
circulatory shock pathology
cold starting ability
conspicuities
converted encoded information type
covelli
cross-index
decompositions
degree of maturation
deused
diethoxy-Q2
digitalate pulse
divergent current
durg fast
duriss
electronic-goods
elephant dugout
end shift frame
eptatretus
equimultiple
f?ng kuan
fare cards
fascism
free-air dose
fuck with him
gabra
gantry crane with electric hoist
giganti
gunnhild
half rear axle
heat equivalent of mechanical work
heat-sensitive sensor
helenvales
hermaphroditic contact
Hoffmann's sign
housing discrimination
hydroglyphus amamiensis
hymen-
ion orbit
janizar
johnny to
lionization
loading warranties
luciferids
MCV
medical department
MHC restriction
money mule
niftic
nonstate economy
notional word
opening moves
oscilloscope display test
partial variation
partly-paid stock
pentimenti
Photinia loriformis
power export
programmable text-editor
protomerite
Pseudorhipsalis
puree
reflagging
relative coefficient value
revenue kilometres
richtuis
royal touch
sale force
scanner program
ship service
shipping memo
somatocysts
stoneflies
Strychnos gaultheriana
taken out on
tetraphylla
Thesiger B.
Verkhneural'sk
vernacle
zero-deflection method