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
accumulated filling throughout
acreage contribution letter
against accident
alternative hypothesis distribution
anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia
anvil
apperley
basal placentation
boosting of the field
camera for indirect laryngoscopy
carmike
cattell personality factor test
cesarean sections
chalcedonic
cnidium rhizome
coco plum trees
colo(u)r purity ring
combatant value
Compact Conductor
completion window
compressed gas
conducted noise
confidence index
convective inhibition (cin)
core-loss component
crack stress field
detesting
direct control microprogram
dry-hot wind
earth-stabilized
Ellinikon
endogenous asthma
enlargens
erls
expressionistically
fire support coordination line
first intermediate host
flat bogie wagon
flat sliding
flowering hormone
foamflowers
frequency splitting
gas-cooled twin reactor station
Glyphothecium
ice climbing
indexed sequential file organization
interior decoration
jolly-boat
kache
Kursa
lady-of-the-night
Livesay, Dorothy
Manual for Complex Litigation
melamine formaldehyde resin composite
messed about
minimum ship manoeuvring speed
minority carrier storage
misfeasances
Monsempron-Libos
MSAF
nonexpansiveness
oil pressure check valve
ong-bak
oscillating hydraulic jump
packet filter
pentaerythrityl
photoassociations
point to point data link
pork-fish
psychoanalyse
psychoanalyser
put sb through sth
reciprocation compressor
record-sets
redefeat
remelting
ring crusher
safety signal
Sech'ǒn
self elevation platform
serpentizing
Sitniki
spinal pla mater
stagier
static demand
stivoro
stopping property
strength property
structural erosion
sun-goddess
surprints
teleprinter exchange-switching service (telex)
terms of trade effect
the-what
to want me
Tolectin
Tonnay-Boutonne
travel steamer
vapulate
vertw
water tube auxiliary boilers
yisra'el