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
acoustic wavefront
anteromedian
aohr
askhams
asme
atte
automatic ground controlled landing
b-52s
Bacillus wehmeri
back coil
be played out
Berlese's theory
Bezopasnoye
Bol'shoye Mikhaylovskoye
Bologoye
Buttonwood Agreement
Canogard
career coaches
centrifugal photometric analyzer
chalcanthitum
Chinese pea tree
colour-filter
conversational interaction
cotton-grass
cracked feet
cybercounseling
disgrades
divide and marriage before conquest
EPUT (event per unit time)
eutectic crystallization
false trade description
fan-wise
field force
filipodium
fire and bilge
forearm twist
foreboding
fuzzy computer
geometrism
George M Cohan
gilt spurs
Gradefes
gradustor
hay pelleting machine
heat transfer equipment
heat-storing device
helmet shied
housing load operation threshold
hydrodynamical nomenclature
igws
imoinda
intelliserver
interrogation meeting
IP block
KdV equation
Lagotis pharica
lee low
Liano Estacado
microspore disease
missing-dependent-variable observations
munidopsis bruta
myrins
nakano
Nixie tubes
open heart surgery
otherwise provide
ovarial cancer
ovarioles
phenylhydrazine sulfate
photoionization transition
pretensioned prestressed concrete girder
Puerto Wilches
pulaskite
rational expectations hypothesis
reaction type cooler
Rebollera
reflectorized
reimprisonment
reseiser
Rhizopus batatae
screen brush
second-class iwadare code
secretory cells
Sejen
shell conchocelis
silicon valley
small blue
smugging
steel-reinforced aluminum cable
Stroke Subpaths
subcleithral
Sulfamethylprimidine
T-SAg
tangent parallel
three-speed gear box
timing and frequency unit
toroidal coordinates
ulm-tree
visual appraisal
Wireless Sensor Network
zoning switch