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
Acroceras
al-mu'tasim
albert abraham michelsons
alumina ceramic of black colo(u)r
bartended
blood-spattereds
Burmannia coelestis
calendographers
choson
Co Lung
conioscinella opacifrons
cosine series
counter die
course and speed made good over the ground
Cyclobalanopsis daimingshanensis
dahleruss
distance measuring wedge
El Jadida
energy chamber
erb's spastic paraplegia
family gobiesocidaes
fibrauretine
fibrinolytic enzyme
Fleischer keratoconus ring
floating fender
flowering crab apple
foot yaws
forssoth
gives me a hand
glaikit
glutamycin
Gnetatae
heated launder
highly ionized stellarmatter
hybrid balance
hydrostatic paradox
inclined flow turbine
infructescence
injection pneumonia
interior equipment
junior stock
Kabetan, Pulau
kalsilite
keidanrens
left-hand machine
Leptodermis dielsiana
long-sided
Luzhou City
macrocolumn
makashin
me generation
mouthbreathers
night vision glasses
noninterim
officemate
party mix
political cooperation
polysomics
potyvirus cowpea aphid-borne mosaic virus
power angle
power closing operation
powermac
primary squamous cell carcinoma of liver
project work
propense
purchaser
quartile deviation
Ragist
rapping rod
recognition site
resinfixed pigment printing
retained data
rock ranger
run round in circles
Rusa, R.
Saha equation
salient-pole field winding
shebo
SI (serial interface)
Singapore slings
slashingly
smooth two-dimensional manifold
smoothsort
solenoid operated switch
spareful
speed-transmitter
sphenosalpingostaphyline
spiral scaming
St.Louis encephalitis
stangen
sundrop
table longitudinal travel
take a cut in pay
torqued off
turn round and round
unequal twins
vacancy diffusion
vertical plan
wiggings
YASDs
yeast-leavening
zingiberis fluid