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
academic press
acquaintanceship
air agitation
al aziziyah
alogian
Americanophobic
apoplasmia
approve a bill
arthrogryposes
auto-pulse magnetic fuel pump
automatic overdrive transmission
battery energy
bears upon
Bence Jones protein test
benzoylhydrazino
boiling point analyser
bridle at
bristle wheel
canalis haemalis
carpoxenia
Caubren
charge-to-count convertor
concentric piston ting
confronting
cork boring machine
correction to time signal
correlation in space
counselling
Dermochelys
distribution main
drop lubrication
dual-fieldmotor
dust-press
ecumenicities
error free transmission of data
feed water valve
fistuliform
fuel pump suction valve
gerontism
good name
goodhall
honor cards
Hornton
human flea
hydrogen tritide
input output adapter
instrument response function
introductory period
James Scott Connors
Kakosa
kaus
kokoshnik
language membership proof system
matasareanu
mead data central
message journaling
Micheldorf in Oberösterreich
Myrobalani-Tannin
night range
NMR line width
normal release
odists
oligopsonies
one-time job
os pedis
outpitched
parasitemias
perioptic
physostigmine sulfate
picked-up
pledge holder
population-environment
potatolike
precision-sleeve splicer
profiled die
quai hai
quantity in
reaws
red-legged tinamous
renocortin
roka
sarannes
scutums
slope angle
smuckers
standardizing reagents
starter pinion and clutch yoke
stirred ourselves
stratifying
sublevate
Thalassoma bifasciatum
the strait of gibraltar
Tilia populifolia
to all appearances
trivializable
tubo-ovarian cystoma
two stops system
ulcering
unmulled
vitreous cavity
whale-road
WHSP