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
6-amino-NADP
addressivity
Agdz
alni
amynthas amis
analysis of materials' placement
anisic alcohol
annoyers
aptycha
arcyria marginoundulata
automatic document control system
Bacillus epidermidis
bank bookkeeping machine
battelle institute
betitled
bootstrap approximation
caffeinelike
cemented component
champion-elect
colo(u)r register
combing sliver
coming back
confined compressive strength
couch case
dance of the runes (n. europe)
definite time-lag switch
desert pavements
discharge valve seat
driving point immittance
dynamic lag
early-generation
ekarhenium
electroplating-bath
fibrillar neuroma
first order color
fosse moat
ground water geophysics
ground-effect boat
heating pipe
hernandoline
hydrosolubilities
indirect retainer
irrigation volume
jambuls
jellinek
jillions
JKG
kilopascal
leguminous forage
Lindfield
Long Akah
lower-frequency
made a delivery
Madonas Rajons
make a chump out of
malar flush
marker thread
mediatization
monocyttarian
motor with standardized mounting dimensions
nerat
NT scan
octyl acetate
oleo pneumatic strut
oliveys
overrich
papular dermatitis of pregnancy
parade officer
parent grain
pedal lever seal
Pedro I
Peltandra
retinal retinitis
rewetting temperature
roll chock
sattin
Scorzonera mongolica
scrubbed solvent
self-sower
severest
sinodural-angle
smoothing plate
somatotropes
sugar cane molasses
synasidia
team up with
throught the year
thunnus albacaress
time-delay relay
tracheotomies
two-tier price system
unpale
vacuumings
validation of redundancy management
vanadous chloride
vardan
vickers hardness standard machine
wachaggas
wire stirrer
write protect notch
ye wei
zwart wit pens