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
acidini
acquisition of signal
acrylate adhesive
aggregate unit
aircraft communication electronic signaling system
Alswodaphne
AMTDT
anteromedian groove
anti-packing chemical
armature-circuit loss
black-heads
blowther
Blue Ridge Mountains
bradytherapy
change-over plug
cleans down
common name
compensation for personal services performed
crampet
cutpurse
Delphinium pseudopulcherrimum
demi-vegetarians
departmentalizes
detrudes
diplomatic building
directional selection
disempowerments
dowannee
electric ignition
entered hound
ethoxycarbonyl
exchange of moneys
extended temperate class refrigerator
Fidelity.
filter paper microscopic tests
Fissurectomy
free evaluation
geoica lucifuga
geometric rectification of imagery
hebetic
high resolution television camera
Imogen
imports
income tax self assessed
information system department
jannum
johann-herbart
Karl Barth
kick transformer
lacro3-lamno3 solid solution
lavatories
lien on cargo
lignum sanctum
lusts after
lyruruss
magic-lantern
make one's living
manostat
maurus
minuric
mixed type of thymoma
n'western
Nitetsu coke oven
norpristane
offshore support ship
outside-left
Paul's treatment
peaon
pinomyricetin
process symbol
rapid-reload capability
rate of crack growth
regloss
shallowpates
shielding room
silico-mangan steel
single-piece microcomputer
skeleton work
skew position generator
stowboard
subtrochanteric
swelty
tape punch reproduce check unit
tarasemide
tayloria serrata
terminal support manager
thermantidote
token payments
topagnosia
tractor semitrailer
trade-off study
twist the knife
two-dimensional communication
uninsulated object
upshock
Viola betonicifolia
waveguide attenuation
wavelength multiplexer
weak connection
Wiebelsheim
withdrawal time
Ziwani