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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BP will create a Twenty-billion-dollar compensation fund to pay damages claims arising from the worst oil spill in US history. The oil giant agreed to the demand at a White House meeting between US President Barack Obama and company executives. After the meeting BP apologized and announced that it would suspend dividend 1 payments for the rest of the year.


Queensland’s Crime and Misconduct Commission has found that investigations 3 into the death in custody 4 of Cameron Doomadgee were seriously fraud. The scathing 5 CMC report to be tabled in Queensland Parliament today was leaked to the Australian Newspaper and it found the original investigation 2 into the death in 2004 was biased 6 and failed to heed 7


basic police procedures.


A new report shows the proportion of people waiting for more than a year for elective surgery is falling. The Australian hospital statistics report shows the number of people waiting longer than 12 months fell from five per cent in 2004 to three per cent in 2009.


South-eastern Australia has been battered 8 by gale 9 force storms overnight. Victoria bore the brunt of the wild weather with winds reaching 133 kilometres an hour in mountain ranges and 80


Ks in Melbourne.


And in Europe, flash flooding in southern France has killed 15 people and left several others missing. Emergency services are working to help hundreds of people trapped in vehicles, houses and on rooftops.



1 dividend
n.红利,股息;回报,效益
  • The company was forced to pass its dividend.该公司被迫到期不分红。
  • The first quarter dividend has been increased by nearly 4 per cent.第一季度的股息增长了近 4%。
2 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
3 investigations
(正式的)调查( investigation的名词复数 ); 侦查; 科学研究; 学术研究
  • His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查,但没有发现什么。
  • He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。
4 custody
n.监护,照看,羁押,拘留
  • He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
  • He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后,他立即被押了起来。
5 scathing
adj.(言词、文章)严厉的,尖刻的;不留情的adv.严厉地,尖刻地v.伤害,损害(尤指使之枯萎)( scathe的现在分词)
  • a scathing attack on the new management 针对新的管理层的猛烈抨击
  • Her speech was a scathing indictment of the government's record on crime. 她的演讲强烈指责了政府在犯罪问题上的表现。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 biased
a.有偏见的
  • a school biased towards music and art 一所偏重音乐和艺术的学校
  • The Methods: They employed were heavily biased in the gentry's favour. 他们采用的方法严重偏袒中上阶级。
7 heed
v.注意,留意;n.注意,留心
  • You must take heed of what he has told.你要注意他所告诉的事。
  • For the first time he had to pay heed to his appearance.这是他第一次非得注意自己的外表不可了。
8 battered
adj.磨损的;v.连续猛击;磨损
  • He drove up in a battered old car.他开着一辆又老又破的旧车。
  • The world was brutally battered but it survived.这个世界遭受了惨重的创伤,但它还是生存下来了。
9 gale
n.大风,强风,一阵闹声(尤指笑声等)
  • We got our roof blown off in the gale last night.昨夜的大风把我们的房顶给掀掉了。
  • According to the weather forecast,there will be a gale tomorrow.据气象台预报,明天有大风。
学英语单词
accessibility to children
accrescency
Aldrox
Alv. deject.
anti-republican
aperwind
applied scientist
bajillionth
Ban Le The
bedhanging
bill of discovery
binocular acuity
blue bird
Boolean factor
bostjan
builder-upper
buskles
carry-over pinch roll
circulation failure
claim tax relief
collar extension
complex line drawer
conai
conformity coefficient
constant-pressure start-up
continuous retort
decidua basalis
dual-seal tubing joint
duplicated sensor
electric instrument
emergency communication net
englard
eometamorphism
ethnoichthyology
euro-communisms
fine cleavage
forehocks
full labour power
Gerbi
glass wall tile
Greater Antilles
half-silvered
harmonizing liver-spleen
have't
high water discharge diagram
Hinchcliffe
hydropneumatic accumulator
income-earners
intervigilant
investment premium
investment priorities
iodic salt
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
Kalijarosite
lockaway
lookaside cache
lucasite-(Ce)
manfredoes
matricaria chamomillas
Morsbach
Muang Thai
national union of students (nus)
Naturaliste Plateau
neuropodous
new order of international economy
night direction-finder
organizational skills
pulsed-bed ion exchanger
pump leakage
quantization of sinewave input
receptive relaxation
red-breasted nuthatches
reduced dependence
retable
Rhodes scholar
ribbonzine
rust protection
seismic coefficient
senarmont plate
set vertical format
shalwar-kameez
signal fire
silver cup
simplotite
splitter fitting
Sterculia foetida
sticklerite
stir up mud
Syeda
Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve
the onset of
thujgenin
triangular smooth file
trolley-wire hanger
tryptic bate
UPB
vocal function
wake-up waiting bit
waverer
wax casting
winter-proud
yoke-cam