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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Aardenburg
accelerating pressure gradient
Achras
advertainment
anatomical age
anethocurarium diiodide
asplenium oldhamii hance
automatic depuration
azotometer
ballistocardiogram
balum
behavioral relationship
blacksmith shop
brea
Brucetown
can-cap printer
character symbol set
clarkei
coin-tossing game
come to close quarters
community economic well-being indicator
convo
core-peripheries
cryogenic magnetic system
cultivation of fields
cyclopropylrhodamine
dataflows
diffusion theory
digylcol stearatee
ectinosomatid
enhanceable language
epilations
fatherless
gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase
general secretary of government
Ham.
height of weir
hell to split
Huai(River)
hydatidostomy
hypophrenic
institute of precautions
interventions
jiaogulan
joist head
keio
lansbergen
least affine multiple
libelling
lloyd-davies
mandibulation
marital infidelity
merchandise production
mesoscale convective complex (mcc)
metallurgic instability
moscow' worthington
mucinous film
mud pumping action
multi-turns
nonrailway
Obermoschel
Oprep
orthodiagram
path strewn with roses
pie-faced
plumping out
poff
proscillaridin A
prosti-tot
pseudarrhenia
refer back to
relief valve solenoid
restauratrices
river adiges
scan sheets
SCOR-IHD
senior chief petty officers
shopping centre
sight picture
skimmer surge tank
sodium persulfide
spantiks
spread-spectrum transmission
standard projection
staudt
stratified volcano
surface-grinding machine
system of public service
Teshio-sanchi
the expendables
tobacco-plant
tradevman
troponin I
under care
velociously
venetias
Volatile solids
wasagle
Wilcoxon paired comparison test
witii
wood parenchyma