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 United Nations says it held secret talks with the Taliban to discuss a truce 1. The revelation was made as Foreign Ministers gathered in London to map out a plan to hand security back over to Afghan forces. They've also unveiled a 550-million-dollar fund, aimed at luring 2 Taliban fighters into education, training in employment programs.


There's a new twist in the search for the missing millionaire Herman Rockefeller. Police raided a property in Melbourne's west overnight. They're not saying whether the case has been treated as a murder investigation 3.


Toyota is extending its recall of vehicles that may have a dangerously faulty accelerator. Seven-five thousand drivers in China are now being told to send their vehicles back to the carmaker because of a sticky accelerator that may cause cars to speed out of control. Similar recalls have already been issued in Europe and the US.


It seems taxpayers 4 are spending more on public hospitals but the quality of care hasn't improved much. A new report on government services shows spending on public hospitals increased six percent to 29 billion dollars in the 2007 financial year. Sixty-nine percent of emergency patients were seen within the recommended time.


And the American author J.D. Salinger has died. The acclaimed 5 writer who wrote “Catcher in the Rye” was 91.


We'll have more news later.



1 truce
n.休战,(争执,烦恼等的)缓和;v.以停战结束
  • The hot weather gave the old man a truce from rheumatism.热天使这位老人暂时免受风湿病之苦。
  • She had thought of flying out to breathe the fresh air in an interval of truce.她想跑出去呼吸一下休战期间的新鲜空气。
2 luring
吸引,引诱(lure的现在分词形式)
  • Cheese is very good for luring a mouse into a trap. 奶酪是引诱老鼠上钩的极好的东西。
  • Her training warned her of peril and of the wrong, subtle, mysterious, luring. 她的教养警告她:有危险,要出错儿,这是微妙、神秘而又诱人的。
3 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
4 taxpayers
纳税人,纳税的机构( taxpayer的名词复数 )
  • Finance for education comes from taxpayers. 教育经费来自纳税人。
  • She was declaiming against the waste of the taxpayers' money. 她慷慨陈词猛烈抨击对纳税人金钱的浪费。
5 acclaimed
adj.受人欢迎的
  • They acclaimed him as the best writer of the year. 他们称赞他为当年的最佳作者。
  • Confuscius is acclaimed as a great thinker. 孔子被赞誉为伟大的思想家。
学英语单词
-ein,-eine
adeniums
aecidium mori
air-packed
allelomimicry
Antilope cervicapra
artsy-craftsy
assessment of offer and tender
Beelzebubian
bendbacks
birectangular spherical triangle
blackout dial
blinger
bouy-derrick
broken reeds
butt seam weld
Calydonian
canal of cuvier
cancerweed
celotomy
chemotrophs
citizen's power of arrest
Communaute Financiere du Pacifique franc
complete attenuation
conventional cold storage
cooperative medical service
crosswise beam foundation
Crotalaria zanzibarica
crown
cubo-cubic transformation
current impulse
debenture holders
delayed-response directional indicator
denotating
dianions
disaster assistance
draw the curtain on sth.
dressing glass
dyers' chamomile
dynamiteur
Elkhead Mountains
Entexidina
explosive limit of flammable gas
extraluminal
fanta
Fenris-wolf
free air temperature
Galilean telescope system
good crop
goods waggon
grading screen
hests
high rupturing capacity fuse
hukm
immunoglobulin M
inactive level
international hire purchase
intrazole
Kirchardt
know the drill
Le Guidon de la mer
level supervising device
linsy
Lipantil
mangle-wurzels
methodises
metoidioplasty
natations
nonexploitative
nonmoralistic
pedagogical conference
penny chews
physiological sodium chloride solution
polliniser
pressed steel bogie
prior-check button
pseudogyne
quotient-closed
radio chart room
reconceptualized
recussion
rye-seed oil
Salogon
self realisation
slewing handwheel
snous
source, potential
speaking as someone
stator yoke
stochastic quantity
super-giant
surface cavitaiton
tea bush borer
tertiary butylhydroquinone
thermal mass
tolyl bromide
tunnages
Ulotrichineae
urea-quinine
vesanto
waiter-services
wisconsin rivers