时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2010年


英语课

The Prime Minister has left open the possibility of using health policy to trigger a double dissolution election. The Senate is expected to vote for a second time on the Government's plan to means test the private health insurance rebate 1. If it's rejected again, it could be used as a double dissolution trigger.


A NATO airstrike has killed seven Afghan policemen in the country's north. Afghan officials say the soldiers were bombed by mistake. It's a second incident this week. Twelve Afghan civilians 2 were killed on Sunday when a NATO rocket missed its target.


Police are calling for help to find a man wanted over the abduction and sexual assault of an eight-year-old girl. She was taken from her home in Sydney's west to Whalan Reserve where the assault took place. Police (are) looking for a man described as Aboriginal 3 in appearance with a thin build and (a) moustache.


Victoria's EastLink motorway 4 has reopened after a fatal truck crash yesterday afternoon. A truck driver was killed when his veh hit a pylon 5. The accident blocked traffic in both directions at Rowville for most of the day.


And Mary Mackillop could tonight be named as Australia's first saint. Pope Benedict will make cardinals 6 and bishops 7 in Rome, where he is expected to make an announcement.


We'll have more news updates later.



1 rebate
v./n.折扣,回扣,退款;vt.给...回扣,给...打折扣
  • You can claim a rebate on your tax.你可以要求退回部分税款。
  • Customers are to benefit from a rebate on their electricity bills.顾客将从他们的电费退费中得到实惠。
2 civilians
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
3 aboriginal
adj.(指动植物)土生的,原产地的,土著的
  • They managed to wipe out the entire aboriginal population.他们终于把那些土著人全部消灭了。
  • The lndians are the aboriginal Americans.印第安人是美国的土著人。
4 motorway
n.高速公路,快车道
  • Our car had a breakdown on the motorway.我们的汽车在高速公路上抛锚了。
  • A maniac driver sped 35 miles along the wrong side of a motorway at 110 mph.一个疯狂的司机以每小时110英里的速度在高速公路上逆行飙车35英里。
5 pylon
n.高压电线架,桥塔
  • A lineman is trying to repair the damaged pylon.线务员正试图修理被损坏的电缆塔。
  • Erection of the pylon required a crane of 1000 ton capacity.塔架安装需用起重量达1000吨的吊机。
6 cardinals
红衣主教( cardinal的名词复数 ); 红衣凤头鸟(见于北美,雄鸟为鲜红色); 基数
  • cardinals in scarlet robes 身披红袍的枢机主教
  • A conclave of cardinals was held to elect the new Pope. 红衣主教团举行了秘密会议来选举新教皇。
7 bishops
(基督教某些教派管辖大教区的)主教( bishop的名词复数 ); (国际象棋的)象
  • Each player has two bishops at the start of the game. 棋赛开始时,每名棋手有两只象。
  • "Only sheriffs and bishops and rich people and kings, and such like. “他劫富济贫,抢的都是郡长、主教、国王之类的富人。
学英语单词
abstract factory pattern
achroocytosis
avolate
Balkan Oblast
be caught in a cleft stick
be indifferent to
beam-foil technique
cadmium screen
cannot-link
capacity constraint vector
car type conveyor
chart-based
chrematophobia
circuit representation
classification of costs by function
cmsr
composite bulkhead
conflabs
control character printout
correlatives
crewels
cross-inlet water turbine(cross turbine)
database builder
design guideline
Dongué
eighteen-minute
electronic annunciator
eurycephalic
eyecream
factorage
false goatsbeards
festgoers
front-rower
full depth pear
gay-friendly
go, man go
hanged on
hard copy file
hypophosphatasaemia
incredited
increment of hour angle
International Standard Book Number
it's Greek to me
john-paul
karl adolf eichmanns
Kālinjara
lastes
lewy
linear potential
longitudinal profile
Makamba, Prov.de
Mark Rothko
marketing value
Maňeru
mittes
moderating effect
molten-salt container
monetary economics
murcer
Nizhneilimsk
on the loaf
ordinary telegrah communication
oscillating sieve
P'angyo
paired selected ternary
paratrichius vittatus
peske
phacellate
plate-handling crane
plexus ophthalmicus
plumba
poynting polarimeter
precast concrete block flue
pressed stem
quadripartites
radiation luminescence
real-time scanner
rhamphoid
right-eyed flounder
Rockland Res.
run untrue
sand disc
Schraplau
sector-focused cyclotron
selenetaen
shore pit viper
shortall
simians
slope grader
Stapelfeld
steer committee
step servomotor
stereo-regularity
striving for superiority
supporting plate
swivel wheel head
tab welder
ultrasonocardiotomogram
unboundable
Viola acutifolia
where one is coming from
Zboriv