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
4N
absonant
absorbent of
admission requirements
arboreal animal
area studies tradition
array redimension
articulated car
battle readiness
BCU (buffer control unit)
blueticks
bose condensate
bougainvilia
bounding layer
buglelet
canella winteranas
case analysis
center of a bundle
chalcography
chittimwood
commercialities
contractualises
CoolTalker
Cordillo Downs
crosers
cross-blast extinguishing chamber
crushable structure
curve of tons per inch immersion
cyanobenzolic acid
cyclocitrane
dalbraminol
DC (data communication)
Diner's club Inc.
eudora light
extremely-high frequency (ehf)
feeding governor
fienden
fundamental reference system
GBU
genderedness
half nut
hand clappings
heliothermometer
hereditation
Hochstätten
Kurun-Uryakh
legal time limit
line of azimuth
liquid column manometer
macheer
mountain mint
multiprocessor system interface
necklines
neutralizing cell
numeric paging
pathon
picking finger
Pinus parryana
planned emergency exposure
plow-land
poly (vinylidene difluoride)
polycaprolactam fiber
potential refractive lindex
prescriptive policy analysis
qualitative colo(u)r base method
queridas
rail grinding wagon
recoding
replaceable base
resting recurrence
roll-position control
San Diegan
Scinnamina
scrape one's feet
secondary cyst
Shore hardness penetrator
sinewed
spissid
table of organization unit
televisual
terebra subulata
the parquet
the reckoning
There's a dear!
thuringias
tilt aquifer
Tirigaon
title of drawing
Tonto National Monument
transportable radionuclide
transverse engine
unknown clause
urinal stall
vaginal pneumatocele
viewbooks
vital wheat gluten
Vivungi
wall interference
withbear
withdrawable part
yau-man
ZSD