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
-diene
absorption solution
abstract of record
accumulator railcar
active verb
analytic method
Ancient Macedonian
anson
atmospheric steam exhaust
Axiidae
bebedourite
benchmark survey
bioastronautics
biological defenses
bywater's lesion
carnotaurs
Chouzé-sur-Loire
company secretaries
costal respiration
crossdisciplinarity
curviplanar fracture
d.c.m.
decosta
digital analog simulator
diode electronic function generator
domestic fecal sewage
Ectrogellaceae
ejection injury
electrostrictive coefficient
end-resistance material
euvitol
fellmongeries
fiber optics data transmission
first-over kettle
Food Research
for the meantime
front semaphore spectacle
fuel charge
fussy as a hen with one chick
Geniculotemporal
guildship
high iron oxide electrode
high speed rotating machinery
Home Kit
Igumale
immediate conditional assembly
impassively
impulse-withstand test
in-swinging casement window
inection
intra family lease
iron liquor
key number
knob l.
lateral tongue swelling
law and regulations
live out of a trunk
loathless
matching key
millicycle
mixed decision function
multivalued response
Neumann boundary conditions
nitryl-hemoglobin
no-strikest
non-professional auditors
nonexistent load module file
notspot
nuble
nylon molding powder
oil-proof test
oxygen enrichment
perpetual calendar watch
Pholidota rupestris
position by radar
pragmatiser
preachifying
primary colour signal drive
pump mechanical efficiency
reactive stupor
reduced coefficient of performance
sailing chart
secondary passive alignment
serous cystadenofibroma of ovary
sexadecimal digit
sideway sum
slacking at work
solutio resinae chloroformica
solution polymerization of ethylene
storm switch
sulphocyaniding
swap table
sweater
switching
timber wolf
topological tree
tubercula pubicum
Wassaic
WFE
win one's blue
wren
Xbase