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
aerosol infection
air spray treatment
all-geared drive
ambercane
approach receiver
Artvin
asix of symmetry
auxiliary machinery diesel engine
brunettia (brunettia) autumna
bush violet
cell-mediated immunity
centalum
ceramic-vacuum tube
chevron bones
clearing energy
clutch for speed control handwheel disengagement
compass diagram
complieth
components test unit
congenital disorder of transport
constant-voltage modulation
costcphrenic
counter sunk head bolt
croakier
daugavpilss
density flow
diammonium (hydrogen) phosphate
dibromgallic acid
diesel oil pump
diffude
diphenylate
diskzine
drink till all's blue
dubhes
earthsmen
electrical discharge machine
fioretti
forced lubricating pump
four quad solid state sensor
Frévent
full-aperture
furance pressure
gamboge yellow
global-democracy
good for a laugh
Guangchang
hemoliPase
hormonal
hot-cathode gas-filled rectifier
hyposternum
iatrochemists
impedance-matching transformer
interest covering ratio
intermediate femoral septum
jakes-houses
kanfer
large power motor
leaping ill
lime-tree (tilia)
Mauritianness
Miaogaoan Age
mill approach table
mixed paralyses
modular algebra
mold board
neurenteric pore
Palmaiola, I.
photophobia
polyplectron bicalcaratum
power dispatching of hydropower plant
pre-alarm
prosipho
punlike
push button starter
r-extinction
rock on
romanas
rough passage
rushhour
scale free heating furnace
scops owls
sensor of proton magnetometer
shouted out
showeing
sliemas
star-network
subreddit
superzapping
thiazolidone
thread cutting screw
training mole
translatings
triptophenolide
turretice spider
two-roller temple
undervoters
us ton
waste-managements
watersoak
yakshika mai (japan)
young oak-bark