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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Israel says its relationship with Australia will only grow stronger despite Australia's decision to expel one of its diplomats 1. The Federal Government says it was left in no doubt that Israel was responsible for using forged Australian passports in the Dubai assassination 2.


 


The U.S. Secretary of State says Washington is trying hard to keep the peace between North and South Korea. Hillary Clinton says North Korea had created a highly precarious 3 situation after a report found the North sank a South Korean warship 4. She urged the South to avoid retaliation 5, but confirmed the United States will still hold naval 6 exercises with the country.


 


A leaked report shows lawyers have accused the former Victorian police commissioner 7 of deliberately 8 misleading the Black Saturday Royal Commission. The Herald 9 Sun newspaper says, lawyers acting 10 for the commission have rejected Christine Nixon's early claim that she forgot she went out to dinner on Black Saturday.


 


Asylum 11 seeker boat arrivals have increased the workload 12 of Australia's Intelligence Agency by ten fold. A Senate estimates committee has been told that ASIO assessed more than 2,000 irregular maritime 13 events between July 2009 and March this year. That's up from just 20 assessments 14 in the 2008-2009 year. ASIO director-general David Irvine said ASIO's expanding responsibilities meant the agency hasn't been recruiting fast enough.



1 diplomats
n.外交官( diplomat的名词复数 );有手腕的人,善于交际的人
  • These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
  • The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 assassination
n.暗杀;暗杀事件
  • The assassination of the president brought matters to a head.总统遭暗杀使事态到了严重关头。
  • Lincoln's assassination in 1865 shocked the whole nation.1865年,林肯遇刺事件震惊全美国。
3 precarious
adj.不安定的,靠不住的;根据不足的
  • Our financial situation had become precarious.我们的财务状况已变得不稳定了。
  • He earned a precarious living as an artist.作为一个艺术家,他过得是朝不保夕的生活。
4 warship
n.军舰,战舰
  • He is serving on a warship in the Pacific.他在太平洋海域的一艘军舰上服役。
  • The warship was making towards the pier.军舰正驶向码头。
5 retaliation
n.报复,反击
  • retaliation against UN workers 对联合国工作人员的报复
  • He never said a single word in retaliation. 他从未说过一句反击的话。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 naval
adj.海军的,军舰的,船的
  • He took part in a great naval battle.他参加了一次大海战。
  • The harbour is an important naval base.该港是一个重要的海军基地。
7 commissioner
n.(政府厅、局、处等部门)专员,长官,委员
  • The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
  • He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。
8 deliberately
adv.审慎地;蓄意地;故意地
  • The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
  • They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。
9 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。
10 acting
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
11 asylum
n.避难所,庇护所,避难
  • The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
  • Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。
12 workload
n.作业量,工作量
  • An assistant one day a week would ease my workload.每周有一天配一个助手就会减轻我的工作负担。
  • He's always grousing about the workload.他总是抱怨工作量大。
13 maritime
adj.海的,海事的,航海的,近海的,沿海的
  • Many maritime people are fishermen.许多居于海滨的人是渔夫。
  • The temperature change in winter is less in maritime areas.冬季沿海的温差较小。
14 assessments
n.评估( assessment的名词复数 );评价;(应偿付金额的)估定;(为征税对财产所作的)估价
  • He was shrewd in his personal assessments. 他总能对人作出精明的评价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Surveys show about two-thirds use such assessments, while half employ personality tests. 调查表明,约有三分之二的公司采用了这种测评;而一半的公司则采用工作人员个人品质测试。 来自百科语句
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adaptive coloration
address, effective
Akarnanika, Ori
always a bridesmaid, never the bride
and as well
anticorona coating
apartment block
ASBATANKVOY
back-pocket
Barmy Army
bartizans
Berndt
bills receivable register
brain-drains
branchiostomous
breccia like structure
bridechilla
bundt cake
catalytic metal
character count program
chase ... up
Cleobury Mortimer
clericalize
comminuted fibres
consecutive sequency computer
consolidated statement of cost goods sold
Corneoconjunctivoplasty
creep-rupture
crisscross merge
cutting off turning machine
dead-end steel tower
diet pill
differings
Dischidia nummularia
DIW
electric vehicles
electrotonic junction
fish oil fatty acid
flexible metal sleeve gasket
frontal eminences
functionless
hash map
high resolution spectroscopy
hinged panel
hoodied
hyperbolic guidance
impedance-matching transformer
improved propeller
individual capacity
invariant approach
invites
iorgulescu
irreplacable
isoperms
left handed crystal
lexigraph
light bulb
little doubt
Macaranga indica
Malay
mictomagnetism
nonfrugivorous
nylan
objectives of accounting
occult anemia
phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate
Pilning
plunger type briquetting machine
popehead
port-levels
powdery scab
precis
preset flight path
previous cleaning
protective barrier
pseudofermions
ptomatopsia
quadrimodality
random rubble fill
riveted lap joint
sarcophaga ostindicae
scare campaign
scotch malt whiskies
send datagram
shabuoth
sodium bentonite
taiwan habu
tea firing
tension stiffening
this time next year
threo isomer
tower loading
tremens rigor
two-dimensional condensation
two-direction thrust bearing
urico-
video amplifier channel
Villafranca del Penedés
Villatobas
wallaba
wavelength-division-multiplexer
zabaleta