澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-06-17
时间：2018-12-11 作者：英语课 分类：澳洲ABC新闻快递2010年
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.
- 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%。
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。
- 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》
- 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。
- 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。