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%.


 


And that’s your ABC News up-to-date.



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
acetoacetate
activity in production
AIDS testing kit
akrotirion
anal spine
anchor chain diameter
antinome
arcing contacts
arm of the bar
Bakkafloi
beta-interferons
bioflavinoid
Birze
border checkpoint
brabo
changement de pieds
citraconate
clippy
closed-shops
comparability test
confederately
control symbol
cost-cutter
crayfish plague
crust soil
data country code
Default location
dicyanoargentates
doling out
dynamic program relocation
Eliporate
emilies
epinephrine bitartrate ophthalmic solution
estimating bad debts
faddier
filament denier
financial-inclusion
finely-ground quartz
flucythrinate
Hanot's syndrome
helium arc
hempseeds
high order
Hydra-Balance
impulse-type output amplifier
invertant
kernmantel rope
kroketten
laurel oak
leche flan
legal chain
lowresponse
Lucie, L.
magickers
Management Operating System
market-mindeds
mausolee
menopausal flushing
minor of determinant
morphology of virus
nephrolepis hirsutula pr.
overlier
peculiar spectrum
Phthirus pubis
pile mass
plain-milling cutter
pneumatic checkout unit
post-Pliocene
primary microhardness standard machine
prt disable mode
pulse to bar ratio
pure golds
push-towing arrangement
pyccle
pythiums
Pyxine
q percentile life
reactor service bridge
rheostats
robed in black
rozzers
schrank
set-down pod
Snake Indian
spiral bevel
strata circulare
Sīlūp, Rūd-e
Tariku, Sungai
tenonoto-
territorialization
tetraptote
thank you for
tichromic
tombestere
trash mover
two-coat
use one's noggin
ventilator - associated pneumonia
verbally deficient students
verification of weight
VM (virtual memory)
wheat eel