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 service will be held in an airbase in the United Arab Emirates today for two Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan. The Brisbane-based combat engineers, 26-year-old Sapper Darren Smith and 21-year-old Sapper Jacob Moerland were killed by a roadside bomb. The Defense 1 Minister John Faulkner and Defense Force Chief Angus Houston will attend the service.


The Prime Minister will hold crucial talks on the mining tax today when he heads to Western Australia. Mr.Rudd met BHP Billiton's chief Marius Kloppers in Sydney yesterday and today in Perth he will meet Fortescue Metals Group's Andrew Forrest. Mr.Forrest is one of the strongest critics of the tax.


Golfer Tiger Woods will return to Melbourne in November to defend his Australian Masters title. On his website, Woods says he is looking forward to playing at The Victoria Golf Club. The Herald 2 Sun reports today the Victorian taxpayers 3 will have to pay half of the three-million-dollar bill.


British Prime Minister David Cameron has met Baroness 4 Margaret Thatcher 5 at 10 Downing Street for a private meeting. Lady Thatcher visited Tony Blair and Gordon Brown shortly after their elevation 6 to the country's leadership, back in 1997 and 2007. Lady Thatcher was the Tory prime minister between 1979 and 1990.


And North Korean bodyguards 7 have shot dead three Chinese citizens. China's Foreign Ministry 8 says the incident happened last Friday. A fourth person was injured.


 



1 defense
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
2 herald
vt.预示...的来临,预告,宣布,欢迎
  • In England, the cuckoo is the herald of spring.在英国杜鹃鸟是报春的使者。
  • Dawn is the herald of day.曙光是白昼的先驱。
3 taxpayers
纳税人,纳税的机构( taxpayer的名词复数 )
  • Finance for education comes from taxpayers. 教育经费来自纳税人。
  • She was declaiming against the waste of the taxpayers' money. 她慷慨陈词猛烈抨击对纳税人金钱的浪费。
4 baroness
n.男爵夫人,女男爵
  • I'm sure the Baroness will be able to make things fine for you.我相信男爵夫人能够把家里的事替你安排妥当的。
  • The baroness,who had signed,returned the pen to the notary.男爵夫人这时已签过字,把笔交回给律师。
5 thatcher
n.茅屋匠
  • Tom Sawyer was in the skiff that bore Judge Thatcher. 汤姆 - 索亚和撒切尔法官同乘一条小艇。 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
  • Mrs. Thatcher was almost crazed; and Aunt Polly, also. 撒切尔夫人几乎神经失常,还有波莉姨妈也是。 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
6 elevation
n.高度;海拔;高地;上升;提高
  • The house is at an elevation of 2,000 metres.那幢房子位于海拔两千米的高处。
  • His elevation to the position of General Manager was announced yesterday.昨天宣布他晋升总经理职位。
7 bodyguards
n.保镖,卫士,警卫员( bodyguard的名词复数 )
  • Brooks came to Jim's office accompanied—like always—by his two bodyguards. 和往常一样,在两名保镖的陪同下,布鲁克斯去吉姆的办公室。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Three of his bodyguards were injured in the attack. 在这次袭击事件中,他有3名保镖受了伤。 来自辞典例句
8 ministry
n.(政府的)部;牧师
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
学英语单词
active microwave remote sensing
airborne gravity survey
anomalous extinction
anti-immune substance
antidetonating
anyonas
appeal for help
apron slab
arcaneness
Azat-le-Riz
baal hazor
bacterial asthma
bad family
barium carbide
bartolo
be after
brooktrees
ceeler
Cefalexium
chaffingly
cheilopoda
chresmologues
Chromoxane
circular depression
coefficient of pth order
cony (pl. conies)
cystoscopic(examination)
dapnoline
decomposition of relation scheme
decyl acrylate-iso
deuteroporphyrin
diethylhydroxylamine
directed tree
dot com
Doudeville
dutch cap
emergence phase
Energetopathology
exact demands
external-bruning ram
fail'd
foreign body in eyes
furnace tube
galenite
horizontal slices method
ideal line
ill-omened
induced inner content
iSight
isovalent
jack hole
kretzmann
light-activated switch
long-range Coulomb interaction
loni
lower-income
malecoton
material inventory budget
mauritanies
mergersort
mine mouth power plant
moderately urbanphobe plant
mumification necrosis
nitroimine
northeastward
novative
oATP
old tin of fruit
olinger
on evidence
open ... heart
ova (pl. ovum)
panophthalima
passive reserve system
percentages of production capacity
podocarpinol
pondpine
porphyryl grous
predominance
preste
Pristimera cambodiana
reaccented
receiver data
research report
right-centre
scapulare
scarlet buglers
speed of shear
spoil heap fire
Str.
subacute appendicitis
tabasco peppers
tear into sth
trindle-bed
trisoligonucleotides
under-serviced
vertical classification
vincaleucoblastin
wall-projected shelf
wallerite
Warevan
wrap-ups