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
3-Sulfolene
abscond with
actual thickness
advanced material ordering
aggro
all electric system
animal tillage
annandaleum japonicum biramosum
arctic rubber
Ardencaple Fd.
arkositite
Arndt-Eistert synthesis
assorting table
bankers
biocompiler
Blajan
blandiloquy
blattarias
blown work
bouchees
breezed into
by instinct
cataclysta
cellosugar
cexfoliative cell examination of sputum
change of tack
Cherry Ridge
ciplyite
cone head snap
corner iron
current year's production
deflector bucket
diazol light yellow
diazonium hydroxide
Dice City
difficulte
direct financing lease
direct information exchange
dispeople
divident cheque
e-elections
echelon matrices
EtOH
executive entity
factor of composition
final felling
find one's finger on someone's weak spot
genus elaeagnuss
glutes
goggle-eyes
gonococcal complement fixation reaction
governmenty
heavy - duty truck
hellscapes
high precision oil filter
Hofstetten
homeomorphic graphs
in-seam driving
inapathy
indecent books
indissolubility
intracell handover
landegger
local passenger display controller
magnetic flux linkage
mastard
mephitises
multiple geared system
Myristica L.
nonery
notodont
octylamines
picogramme
primary climax
program uncertainty
pseudoginseng
puluere
record of concealed work
reversible insert
rhizomorphous
ruth-lee
secretaria
settes
single drug
spaceful
sun radius
Tax Innovation Committee
telephone ordering
terminal leaflet
thorough feed method
thymidylic acid
Tic coated tip
tickey box
timing wave generator
took a breath
transmitter optical connector
Triton Knoll
trunk organizer
two-strikest
vena spinaliss
viscosurgery
volume constancy