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
abdur'rahman
aceto-glyceride
ague-oghene
aircraft flying height
annual financial statement
argentine cloth
atms
authentic assessment
award-bearings
ballistocardiographic
bar-press
barium titanate porcelain
bejarano
bioligands
blossomings
bottom-up technique
bulk diffusion
cacherel
capacitance spectroscopy
channel shifter
chorda ductus venosi
compliance adviser
computer law
counter-revolutionaries
crescent blade section
crude sand
death due to trussing up
digital code
double-row ball journal bearing
douters
draggest
dual-capstan tape unit
emperiled
FADAP
fatal accident
Ferro Manganese
floryan
fluid-inclusion
full packing
gar-den
generic class setting
half-stepping
happy-coat
have not a penny
Heart isn't in it
household necessity
ICCE
incline trackman
interchromosome balance
intergeneric cross
intersegment
intracrureus
ipr (initial pressure regulator)
level drift
lidofenin
machine coated paper
macromolecular conformation
Mecodrin
monarticular
monkey-faced owl
mpuss
multipersistence penetration screen
myelomyces medullary carcinoma
neutral violet
Newark Airport
non-free flowing
nonjudgements
nonmyocytes
obscene communication
panoplied
payables on land and building purchased
phaethon rubricauda roseorinctus
pterygoid fissure
radiant ceiling heating
restructuring procedure
Rocky Mountains spotted fever
rope scourer
Sanana, Pulau
self-defense
self-organizing symbol table
single-copy DNA
spleeny
stabilizer gas
stress testing for pressure vessel
subreligion
Sǎlcioara
tenant by socage
terebrates
theological
thrawnly
transistor demodulator
transit carrier (closed)
troost
turn scarlet
two-compartment tank
upper derived function
wheel slip
Wierden
wiring data
woomphs
Z-beacon
Zugg my gogg