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
AC voltage convertor
aesculuss
aftervision
agave filifera
alphavirus venezuela equine encephalitis virus
alternaria brassicae
Ammodytoidei
angular coordinates
automated message switching system
automatic current testing
avalanche cone
ballett frankfurt
be broken
be deposited
behavioral norms
bog geography
Bokela
Bothriospermum chinense
breathings
business colleges
cabibbo-radicati sum rule
Caesalpinia bonduc
cesses
close symbol
cloudward
CO-hemoglobin
curly ones
cursoriness
cystopurin
deep rhetoric
dorsal column system
double shell
foreign investors
frame reject
front-feet
fuel test
gastric typhoid
havala
hewishes
honk-honk
humpback (whale)
Hunza R.
in the till
infiltration water
initial free space
inner buds
input protection
interrupt handling program
Jebru,Mythical Isle of
ketone ester
Khivskiy Rayon
Kruss bilateral slit
leg of a circuit
light lube oil
light-harvesting center
long-dated paper
Mahrès
marine environmental quality
mast-climbing work platform
message channel failure
mibbes
moscow' pomona
Mugabe, Robert Gabriel
myristostearin
NAVAREA warning
nennius
Nick Jonas
Ognekta
Pendleton County
putchers
Queen Charlotte Is.
Rami anteriores
re-prioritize
refinalization
rotating beacon station
simplisms
six-lead tacheometer
skaff
slackstone
spin paramagnetism
spring mechanism
stirrup cup
storage circuits
subroutine segment
supersensibilization
telephone test
tests on
texture goniometer camera
Tinel's sign
towry-lowry
turning gouge
ultrasound diathermy
unified atomic weight
unity thread
unmanageableness
vascular nephropathy
voltage current adapter
wash ... down
wigner three-j symbol
wipped
yamum
zunoes