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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Tasmania's new Labor 1 minority Government’s already facing the threat of a no-confidence motion less than a day after being returned to office. The state's governor yesterday reappointed David Bartlett Premier 2 19 days after the election delivered a hung parliament. Mr. Bartlett has left the way open for a power-sharing deal with the Greens. The Liberal leader, Will Hodgman says he will move a no-confidence motion immediately.


 


Investigators 3 are trying to establish whether a fatal house fire in the central west of New South Wales was caused by faulty insulation 4. A man in his 50s and his three-year-old grandson died in the blaze at Peak Hill. The home had been serviced under the government's bungled 5 home insulation scheme which has been linked to a number of other fires.


 


The US President Barack Obama and Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev have met in Prague to sign an arms reduction treaty. The deal should see their nuclear arsenal 6 cut by almost a third over seven years and open the way for further cuts in the future.


 


And Malcolm McLaren, the former manager and self-proclaimed mastermind behind the iconic British punk band the Sex Pistols, has died. He was 64. McLaren, the ex-partner of designer Vivienne Westwood had been suffering from cancer for some time.


 


We’ll have more news later.



1 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
2 premier
adj.首要的;n.总理,首相
  • The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
  • He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。
3 investigators
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 insulation
n.隔离;绝缘;隔热
  • Please examine the insulation of the electric wires in my house.请检查一下我屋子里电线的绝缘情况。
  • It is always difficult to assure good insulation between the electric leads.要保证两个电触头之间有良好的绝缘总是很困难的。
5 bungled
v.搞糟,完不成( bungle的过去式和过去分词 );笨手笨脚地做;失败;完不成
  • They bungled the job. 他们把活儿搞糟了。
  • John bungled the job. 约翰把事情搞糟了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
6 arsenal
n.兵工厂,军械库
  • Even the workers at the arsenal have got a secret organization.兵工厂工人暗中也有组织。
  • We must be the great arsenal of democracy.我们必须成为民主的大军火库。
学英语单词
after-perpendicular
air inlet disk valve
alpha energy loss
anisotropisation
ante-mortem statement
attitude of combat
be scared witless
big-
Calmette's sera
carbofuran
carbonpoint
cast a compass
chams
chutspah
coal mine engineering exploration
Committee of the whole House
control(l)ing vane
crush frature
cytheropteron tumulosum
decision-making interface
deputy mayor
descense
desmear
digit receiver
directed cycle
epidithiodioxopiperazine
estuarine animal
ethyl gallate
Eunus
Eupelmidae
fallibilist
family Chamaeleonidae
fast loading
Fimbristylis dichotomoides
formative study of development strategies
frogeater
ganze macher
gervers
gingivo-axial
glucocerebrosidoses
Grundschule
haemoglobinopathy
half-chinese
henrys
HKMA
horrids
housing and urban developments
huddles
idler time
input threshold voltage
jowliness
Julcamarca Cord.
Knockando
Kosala
Lamasco
lamina of modiolus
laureateships
Marne River
Ministry of Defence
mud-kickers
Muricidae
nuclear magnetic resonance studies
pegasus valitans
phosalone
phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase
physician-scientist
planet motion
plessies
pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
practical plastic engineering
rangoon
reed gratings
remurmured
rheumarthritis
Richmondite
ruca
run on plate
saintenies
sealed germanium diode
serial scheme
servo type function generator
set at defiance
shankman
siddity
smectic compound
specific electrode consumption
spirator
spore surface
squalidize
stop-and-wait
strangulating
supervisionists
system thinking
temper-brittle
topological conservation law
trionic
Umm al Qulbān
undertenancies
volumometrical
wedge-shaped armor
work-groups
Wye, River