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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There’ve been chaotic 1 scenes outside a Port-au-Prince court where 10 Americans have been charged with child abduction. The five men and five women were arrested nearly a week ago, after trying to take a busload of Haitian children out of the country. The missionaries 2 say they were trying to help children abandoned or orphaned 3 after the earthquake. It turned out many of the children still had relatives who’d survived the disaster. It isn’t clear yet if their trial will take place in Haiti.


 


The Federal Opposition 4 says the government should release modelling which shows how much electricity prices will rise under its proposed emissions 5 trading scheme. In parliament this week, it was revealed prices will rise by 19% in the first two years of the scheme. The government says low-income households will be compensated 6 for any price rises.


 


And growing fears over the state of European budgets have sent global share markets sliding. All the major European markets fell. London’s FTSE lost more than 2%, Germany’s DAX lost 2.5%. The weak sentiment also spread to Wall Street where the Dow slipped 2.5%. The S&P 500 and the NASDAQ lost nearly 3%.


 


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1 chaotic
adj.混沌的,一片混乱的,一团糟的
  • Things have been getting chaotic in the office recently.最近办公室的情况越来越乱了。
  • The traffic in the city was chaotic.这城市的交通糟透了。
2 missionaries
n.传教士( missionary的名词复数 )
  • Some missionaries came from England in the Qing Dynasty. 清朝时,从英国来了一些传教士。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The missionaries rebuked the natives for worshipping images. 传教士指责当地人崇拜偶像。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
3 orphaned
[计][修]孤立
  • Orphaned children were consigned to institutions. 孤儿都打发到了福利院。
  • He was orphaned at an early age. 他幼年时便成了孤儿。
4 opposition
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
5 emissions
排放物( emission的名词复数 ); 散发物(尤指气体)
  • Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
  • Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。
6 compensated
补偿,报酬( compensate的过去式和过去分词 ); 给(某人)赔偿(或赔款)
  • The marvelous acting compensated for the play's weak script. 本剧的精彩表演弥补了剧本的不足。
  • I compensated his loss with money. 我赔偿他经济损失。
学英语单词
additional factor
apriorientropy
arendsen
ascitis
attached please find
automated tellers
automatic stacking
barleybrakes
bilateral precaution
Bondues
bubbled over
bursae musculi semimembranacei tibialis
caap
capped bullet
cementing pump
Chetyrëkhstolbovoy, Ostrov
cigarette-case
commercial variety
communication control device
completely unimodular
confederation of trade unions
convenience method
description of the indices
DF (decimal fraction)
disunion
Domes-booke
Donaghcloney
erector arm
executive communication
extravaginal
face centred cubic space lattice
fast tool forging
fibromatoid
first order triangulation supplementary station
flash BIOS
flavius
gladiation
GM_perfect-infinitive-with-to-to-have-worked
grade of service
graphic character conversion
gross language
guideline
hard measles
hauntologically
head lamp switch
Hellaradine
heterogeneous strain
hot pressed parts
ill fame
infall process
infinite series
just over
Klostermansfeld
komissarov
Krupp family
laboratory apron
lobatus
local staff
losoxantrone
majeure
Mamonas
manduca sextas
maximum rotational energy
melendi
membranocartilaginous
mesoscale lee vortex
misotheistic
mortalist
multiplied by
off the record
oil wearing quality
pankin
periodic network of 4-connected points
phosphor bronze sheet
Pridoli
professorships
proofspirit
pupsy
quinin sulfovinate
re-enrich
readout
recommendation limit
Residential property
retailing cold store
revill
Rückershausen
s.a.v
Sabalamin
scandular
seignoret
sluttiness
source program text-word
strain-chirped fiber bragg grating
stratocumulus (sc)
suboffice
take a knock
tarantulite
underbalanced
untidied
urnal
venenific
Zuqāq