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 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says there will be major changes to the health system this year. The announcement came as he revealed the government faces massive hikes in health costs over the coming decades. Mr. Rudd warned health costs will rise rapidly with the ageing of Australia’s population. Treasury 1 figures predict the Commonwealth 2 Health spending will increase by more than 200 billion dollars by 2050.


In Haiti, the government has officially ended the search and rescue operation. The international aid effort is now concentrating on providing aid to earthquake survivors 3. Critics have claimed aid agencies involved in the relief effort have been competing against each other instead of cooperating. But officials in Haiti say the criticism is unjust.


Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections have been postponed 4 until September. The election was due in May, but the Independent Election Commission says it lacks the 15 million US dollars needed to organize the poll. Meanwhile five American soldiers have been killed in bombings in Afghanistan’s south.


And Queensland sailor Jessica Watson has passed the halfway 5 mark in her attempt to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world. The 16-year-old from the Sunshine Coast has been sailing for 100 days. Her manager says she is making good progress and is ahead of schedule.


 


More news later.



1 treasury
n.宝库;国库,金库;文库
  • The Treasury was opposed in principle to the proposals.财政部原则上反对这些提案。
  • This book is a treasury of useful information.这本书是有价值的信息宝库。
2 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。
3 survivors
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
4 postponed
vt.& vi.延期,缓办,(使)延迟vt.把…放在次要地位;[语]把…放在后面(或句尾)vi.(疟疾等)延缓发作(或复发)
  • The trial was postponed indefinitely. 审讯无限期延迟。
  • The game has already been postponed three times. 这场比赛已经三度延期了。
5 halfway
adj.中途的,不彻底的,部分的;adv.半路地,在中途,在半途
  • We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路,天就黑了。
  • In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上,最忌讳的是有始无终。
学英语单词
'bortion
a hole in one
acromioclavicular joint
alopecia dynamica
amanita rufoferruginea
ammonium perchromate
anterior ventral plate
Arendal
aromatic substitution
Aymagambetov
Badenoch
bakatins
barritt
beautifullest
Benicito, R.
blades
boeotus
bolokanang (petrusburg)
calendar girls
candy-coated
circular deflection
clay atmometer
cockatoo farmer
communications control language file
coniglobus pekanensis insularis
coordination of reflex action
crathies
degay
diagonalize
direct foreign exchange quotation
effective half-word
ergodic homeomorphism
external priority interrupts
eye-in-the-sky
facing-up
filler podjarka
flexion surface
flint-disease
Franken food
FRCPI
garnetberry
heat protection system
hirko
homotropeine
ileogastrone
Jagüé
Khamseh
Lemsid
littlefield
maximum friction
measure isomorphic
mercruy-cadmium-telluride infrared detector
militainment
minifloppy disk drive
mixture making
modern control
moltyne
Nam Long Shan/Brick Hill
Nam Sach
nextly
notch frequency
oil-quenched cut-out
original main motion
othosilicic acid
paradigmaticisms
parasphenoids
pellock
phenylate
pinguinuss
polemicised
pontellopsis villosa
presence bit interrupt
prompt neutron fraction
quantity of flow
regain consciousness
report controller
self-fluxing alloyed powder
seriously ill
server push-pull
setarid
sickle-cell trait
signalling key of pull type
sore-throat due to yin deficiency
square-head
stallybrass
statistic significance
stepbore cylinder
stubborn as a mule
supplemented medium
tearing mode instability
touchless
tricked up
turbulent inversion
typical method
under-absorbed burden
underprivileged children
universal coded character set
vat powder
vertical layout of production areas
very-similar
wideband controller
woodhill