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 death toll 1 from the Chile earthquake has risen to more than 700. Rescue efforts have been hampered 2 by blocked roads and fallen bridges. The UN has promised aid and many countries including Australia have offered assistance. The Chilean government has not yet made an official request for outside help.


 


Australian Commonwealth 3 Games officials want fresh assurances from the Foreign Minister about the safety of athletes competing in New Delhi. Steven Smith flies to India today to check on security at the Hockey World Cup and discuss arrangements for October's games. It follows a recent threat to sporting events in India from a group linked to Al-Qaeda.


 


At least 50 people have been killed in storms across Europe. Winds about 240 kilometers an hour caused chaos 4 as they moved from Portugal, through Spain and France. French coastal 5 villages are flooded and more than a million homes are without power. 


 


And a forecourt of Sydney's Opera House has turned into a sea of human flesh. Thousands of people have braved the elements to take part in a nude 6 photo shoot by American photographer Spencer Tunick. The work is part of Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.


 


And there'll be more news later.



1 toll
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
2 hampered
妨碍,束缚,限制( hamper的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The search was hampered by appalling weather conditions. 恶劣的天气妨碍了搜寻工作。
  • So thought every harassed, hampered, respectable boy in St. Petersburg. 圣彼德堡镇的那些受折磨、受拘束的体面孩子们个个都是这么想的。
3 commonwealth
n.共和国,联邦,共同体
  • He is the chairman of the commonwealth of artists.他是艺术家协会的主席。
  • Most of the members of the Commonwealth are nonwhite.英联邦的许多成员国不是白人国家。
4 chaos
n.混乱,无秩序
  • After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后,城市一片混乱。
  • The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。
5 coastal
adj.海岸的,沿海的,沿岸的
  • The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
  • This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。
6 nude
adj.裸体的;n.裸体者,裸体艺术品
  • It's a painting of the Duchess of Alba in the nude.这是一幅阿尔巴公爵夫人的裸体肖像画。
  • She doesn't like nude swimming.她不喜欢裸泳。
学英语单词
alveolates
anterior cervical triangle
any more than
austroboletus gracilis
be a different breed of cat from
beefalo cattle
bile salt broth
blood bank management
Boang I.
boom market
bulbospongiosus muscle
Campanumoea javanica
capital formation in general government sector
Carex egena
cembran pine
centurion's staff
chad box
chrissie everts
clay and straw plaster
copen
cordoned-off
direr
district cooling
donated surplus account
double-ended control
drag someone up
electric differential pressure transmitter
electrical automatic control equipment
electro(re)ceptor
enclosed-type turbine
Ezbider
fine
flattened radius
fluid sand mixture molding process
foryellow
fountain syrup
George.
Grevenbicht
have the liberty of
Herplex
hook formation
irit
kaonic atom
lachnum nudipes
lamina lucida
landed quantity terms
Laudolissin
let in on a secret
loosening of association
lower part of register
lump together
macroland
Maltsch (Malše)
manual lubricator
meaking irons
Middle Cambrian Series
nerifolin
nt12 (network termination 12)
obijime
ocean color imaging (oci)
ocre
omphaloschisis
Open place
optical tuning
parapsychologist
parosteal sarcoma
pei t'ing y?eh
penninger
pension program
perrens
prick someone for
puffing hole
pygalataspis miscanthi
quicksorts
radioactive bombardment
rear spring shackle
remote-sensing regulator
rhabdoblatta rusica
rice koji
safe load
Salix etosia
search-and-replace
service interrupt
single-anode tank
slivering
smart-casual
solid state injection laser
supercouples
superWIMPs
talkily
teacher performance test
telegraph plants
teleprogramming
there's something in sth
three-arm clasp
Thynia
tomerlin
tradescant's aster
triangle reflector
Ugandolaelaps
unprimed
unsteady heat transfer