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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Australian aid is expected to arrive this morning in areas of Fiji, hardest hit by a powerful cyclone 1. Authorities are still trying to contact 17 Australians in Fiji's north. But damaged infrastructure 2 is hampering 3 communications. Cyclone Tomas has flattened 4 homes and left villagers homeless. Meanwhile, hundreds of people have been evacuated 5 from Queensland's Heron and Lady Elliot islands as Cyclone Ului moves towards the coast. It’s weakened to a Category-3 system, but the weather bureau says it could intensify 6 before it makes landfall in the next few days.


 


Australian authorities are urging China to allow Australian officials to attend the entire trial of mining executive Stern Hu. Mr. Hu and three other Rio Tinto executives will face court in Shanghai on Monday, charged with receiving bribes 7 and infringing 8 commercial secrets. But the main part of the trial will take place in a closed session. Stern Hu's employers say they want the case to be dealt with quickly and transparently 9.


 


And US President Barack Obama has celebrated 10 St. Patrick's Day, welcoming the Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen to Washington. The fountain at the White House was turned green for the day. While in New York, revellers took to the streets for the annual St. Patrick's Day parade.


 


We'll have more news updates later.



1 cyclone
n.旋风,龙卷风
  • An exceptionally violent cyclone hit the town last night.昨晚异常猛烈的旋风吹袭了那个小镇。
  • The cyclone brought misery to thousands of people.旋风给成千上万的人带来苦难。
2 infrastructure
n.下部构造,下部组织,基础结构,基础设施
  • We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
  • We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设,发展各类群众文化。
3 hampering
妨碍,束缚,限制( hamper的现在分词 )
  • So fraud on cows and development aid is seriously hampering growth. 因此在牛问题上和发展补助上的诈骗严重阻碍了发展。
  • Short-termism, carbon-trading, disputing the science-are hampering the implementation of direct economically-led objectives. 短效主义,出售二氧化碳,进行科学辩论,这些都不利于实现以经济为主导的直接目标。
4 flattened
[医](水)平扁的,弄平的
  • She flattened her nose and lips against the window. 她把鼻子和嘴唇紧贴着窗户。
  • I flattened myself against the wall to let them pass. 我身体紧靠着墙让他们通过。
5 evacuated
撤退者的
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
6 intensify
vt.加强;变强;加剧
  • We must intensify our educational work among our own troops.我们必须加强自己部队的教育工作。
  • They were ordered to intensify their patrols to protect our air space.他们奉命加强巡逻,保卫我国的领空。
7 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
8 infringing
v.违反(规章等)( infringe的现在分词 );侵犯(某人的权利);侵害(某人的自由、权益等)
  • The material can be copied without infringing copyright. 这份材料可以复制,不会侵犯版权。
  • The media is accused of infringing on people's privacy. 人们指责媒体侵犯了大家的隐私。 来自《简明英汉词典》
9 transparently
明亮地,显然地,易觉察地
  • "Clearly plots,'said Jacques Three. "Transparently!" “显然是搞阴谋,”雅克三号说,“再清楚不过了。” 来自英汉文学 - 双城记
  • All design transparently, convenient for the file identification inside the bag. 全透明设计,方便袋内文件识别。
10 celebrated
adj.有名的,声誉卓著的
  • He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
  • The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。
学英语单词
4-META
acrobatism
Ancistrocactus
Anna de Koningh Seamount
average aviator
aviation institute
ballet comique
beeling boom
bellitude
bertolonia marmorata naud.
biocompatible
blade-end loss
bletchleys
breaking zone
cable communication act
carboxymethylcellulose
cathers
caved storage
celebraters
common natual resource
condensation dye
conspecific
culture jam
cupping machine
deviating force
disappointeth
disciferous
dispersing aid
favorite sons
fire bill
flight path deviation
gas storage holder
generator motoring protection
genus brodiaeas
geodispersal
gill basal membrane
GM_comparison-clauses-bigger-than-we-had-imagined
go jump in the lake
gyttja
hemp tow
hydration reactor
in the lee
incremental magnetic tape
injected fuel
Intagaw
inverted-list database
ionic conduction
ISOGNOMONIDAE
knited cord heald
lean years
leg-vice
legerdemainists
lipositol
luiseno
margin call
melnick
meteorological record
micromanage
microsurgical
midseason form
mimectatina fukudai
narcine brevilabiata
nuclear magnetic resonance scanner
offset sheets
oil squirt
ora scrrata
otis intelligence test
Parabarium hainanense
pathogenesis-related
peacetime
photoceptor
plutonium-only reactor
prairie oyster
prohibitive tax
prostitution ring
Pseudoephemerum
pumped-storage set
punctuated equilibria theory
rescue vessel
samenesses
Sandown (Lea) Airport
sandwichable
sarbanissa interposita
sideart
skull trephine
space environmentalmonitor
sparoids
street plan
submin
subrogated
sum of products
surface elevation
thermoquenching
to compose
traveling autodoffer
tree mensuration
unified radar bomb sight
water-clear cells
wild horses
wind technology
wine barrels
yersinia ruckeri