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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The Duchess of York has been caught on camera offering to sell access to her husband Prince Andrew. The News of the World says Sarah Ferguson was filmed by one of its reporters posing as a businessman. And it appears that she accepts 40,000 US dollars in cash. The paper says, Prince Andrew knew nothing about the deal with more than half a million pounds.


A witness at the centre of a corruption 1 investigation 2 has alleged 3 that a Reserve Bank subsidiary was willing to supply prostitutes and pay bribes 5 to win banknote supply contracts. The allegation surfaced in the special investigation by Four Corners and The Age newspaper. It's found that a middleman hired by Securency International said he intended to bribe 4 a central bank governor from an Asian country.


A report on Australia's education system says teachers want an overhaul 6 of the performance evaluation 7 process. The Grattan Institute report says most teachers surveyed believed that the existing evaluation process doesn't improve teaching in Australian schools.


And lawyers for the Bushfires Royal Commission will this week attack the Victorian Government over its handling of the Black Saturday fires. A leaked lawyers’ submission 8 accuses the Government of “substantial policy failure” that placed “at least some of those who died at great risk”.


(It’s) found that at least 19 people have been killed and more than 70 injured when a train derailed in a mountainous area in eastern China. State media says a landslide 9 damaged the tracks causing several carriages to derail and overturn in Jiangxi province.



1 corruption
n.腐败,堕落,贪污
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
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 alleged
a.被指控的,嫌疑的
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
4 bribe
n.贿赂;v.向…行贿,买通
  • He tried to bribe the policeman not to arrest him.他企图贿赂警察不逮捕他。
  • He resolutely refused their bribe.他坚决不接受他们的贿赂。
5 bribes
n.贿赂( bribe的名词复数 );向(某人)行贿,贿赂v.贿赂( bribe的第三人称单数 );向(某人)行贿,贿赂
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • corrupt officials accepting bribes 接受贿赂的贪官污吏
6 overhaul
v./n.大修,仔细检查
  • Master Worker Wang is responsible for the overhaul of this grinder.王师傅主修这台磨床。
  • It is generally appreciated that the rail network needs a complete overhaul.众所周知,铁路系统需要大检修。
7 evaluation
n.估价,评价;赋值
  • I attempted an honest evaluation of my own life.我试图如实地评价我自己的一生。
  • The new scheme is still under evaluation.新方案还在评估阶段。
8 submission
n.服从,投降;温顺,谦虚;提出
  • The defeated general showed his submission by giving up his sword.战败将军缴剑表示投降。
  • No enemy can frighten us into submission.任何敌人的恐吓都不能使我们屈服。
9 landslide
n.(竞选中)压倒多数的选票;一面倒的胜利
  • Our candidate is predicated to win by a landslide.我们的候选人被预言将以绝对优势取胜。
  • An electoral landslide put the Labour Party into power in 1945.1945年工党以压倒多数的胜利当选执政。
学英语单词
aggregate weighted index
alatest
alway
Archipielago de Colon, Prov.de
as thick as thieves
auroral ray
Balkhāb
billikens
bring to a bring a halt to
brinksmanships
Brossac
bullfincher
Cellucon
Cephalotaxus wilsoniana
close button
coal-powereds
communication satellite technology
completed contract accounting
conditioned signal
conflict resolver
crossholdings
cubatory
davoren
demoralised
differentiation of symptoms and signs to identify etiology
dishwashing detergents
Duklja
embroidery frame
epicrania
external plasma
flower of sulphur
fluorescence efficiency
Frankia
fundamental measures
gas-pipe thread
gender-bending
geriatric-care
golfs
Gooringia
hatch-locking bar
hexose diacide
hierographer
high pressure lifting device
homed
hoop drop relay
Hornsömmern
hublin
ideal speech situation
ihep
integrated missile early warning system
interlocking plan
internal structure of the earth
isocholine
jib arm
Johnson and Lark-Horowitz formula
kurlelo
leather jackets
longicornis
low price standard
martyre
masse shot
melanippus
mesh coordinates
meta-tolyl-n-methylcarbamate
metallic bridge
Migranyan
mixed decision function
moufflon
Musculus brevis
ninespot
odontogenetic
out-nose
overlond nozzle
pacaranas
paraison
peasant movement
person-organization fit
pharyngeal lymphaticring
pinch phenomenon
Plexus esophagealis
PPPoEs
proof procedure
queen of puddings
Ruben cell
seven-shooters
short rotation
short take-off and landing
sibley
signal quantization level
spike harrow
steel plate membrane embedded in the foundation
store audit
straight-line graticule
straight-line type regulator
subimago
total current regulator
trabeculae corporis spongiosi penis
trachelomonas volzii intermedia
unfect
virtual bidirectional relationship
wet metallurgical processing
Zaraguro