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
.ca
amphidiarthrosis
azogeramine
basic non-feasible solution
bomby
Break-up fees
bulk electro-optic phase modulator
bus-bar potential transformer
Ceftix
check clamp
come off guard
composite of fields
cooder
coverage function
crawler-mounted clamshell
cusp-ripple
d-asp
dealing in foreign notes and coins
defalcations
dumpoked
dystric gleysols
eternal sleep
fire protection device
fisheries manager
fly ash brick
frequency of pitch
gadient
garbological
geometric dance
germ free
gross national product implicit price deflator
herons
hornswoggled
hydrolyzed cereal solids
immunoprobes
in everyone's mouth
incorporated public officer
inefficient insecticide
intrinsic brightnesses
Kapoeta
krzyzanowski
kybe
Lamerdingen
light communication system
locality of a crime
loniceraflavone
loudness control circuit
Methotrexat
mode current
non-rejection
odd pitch screw
off-by-one error
order of release
Ouro Amat
Overdifferencing
pack-hardening furnace
parallel real-time processing
parchment-lace
pay heed to
potassium pentaborate
prisoners' base
psychiater
punched-card sorter
quantized bubble
ragg
Redneck Teleprompter
rifle ball
round and spline broach
s-complete net
saddlings
score to settle
scouring liquor
semischist
Shortnin' Bread
single twitch
single-equation method
sir david alexander cecil lows
speed run
squidginess
stopping-points
tabernaemontanain
tachygraphometry
take one's life in one's hand
Tawatinaw
Telford base
teratospermia
that was that
to slug a person
tomograms
tonic accents
torn ligament
torque type viscometer
transient stage
underwater welding
unreset
variable threshold decoding
vascular hypertension
vegetative ganglionic drug
velcade
warp reel
yearly ring
yellow chrome