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
acceleration in money-circulation
aggregate indemnities
Aghiresu
aligned dimension
Ambargasta
appeasee
auxiliary steam turbine load turnover test
balloon bomb
Bolt Kit
boods
break myself
bulbous buttercups
buna-n
cannoniers p.
carritch
Carteaud
cathode space
cephalons
CFC-C
CFE (Criteria for Evaluation)
classification of viruses
Clyde River
coagulatory
competitor intelligence
construction helmet
contracdict the defendant's witness
convection oven
coolant channel closure
count-class sentence
crystallizations
denys
double bottom compartment
downselected
drive to maturity
duracine
elaeagnaceae oleaster family
energy secretaries
enurersis
Euphrasia matsudae
ex-l
exposure weights
gallery frame
genus estrildas
gradual advance
gravel packing completion
Hawking
hemoleukocyte
hug-me-tights
International Mobile Station Equipment Identity
jamb lining
kanoodled
Kedungwuni
land-tenures
Laufenburg (Baden)
left seater
ligamenta teres hepatis
logic connector
lymphemia
maximum pressure governor
maxwell's equation
mese-place
millibarn
minimum maximum theory
misease
molexes
mutton dressed like lamb
on high-tension side
Owsley acid
Paaktons
padds
parkia javanicas
petru
phagocytosing
Pneumatomachi
polythalamic fruit
portajohn
pressure hydrophone
promiseth
prunus macrophylla
pseudoisometric
red sandalwood
reflection coefficient of sound intensity
repeal
revolutionarity
runtime error messages
scientific hypothesis
Sedum costantinii
social autopsy
stock traders
styme
surface area
tank discharge-auger
tattletale greys
television-watching
trambooze
treemen
tuffaceous sandstone
unmitre
unresenting
visible pit of track
Winkler burette
youth ghetto