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
Amanotkel'
anti-competitive
antineurotic
arecids
argue with sb. on sth.
Arusha Declaration
autere
banking of the current
be an injury to
Bond number
Burgundy School
bush shrike
camphyl
card door electric contact
careerwise
carpotetraspore
celmonit
chemical symbols
comprehensive utilization of aquatic products
conceivable accident
contemptuously
cryohardening
cryptoplasmic
de regle
decocell
derby float
dialing down
discardest
dust arrestment
educant
embryonic doom
epilaksholic acid
equalizing bar
experimental elasticity mechanics
final drive and differential
Fladså
flat separating disk
fleet -rental
Florence Lake National Wildlife Refuge
fulcrum flat
gilliard
Guggenheim
heavy-ion fusion system
hedgehog crystals
herbers
Hoang Hoa
housestyle
imbretil
intimate borrowing
j2ee
keep sb in
key pal
King's method
klipsch
labioplastic
law of satiable wants
Lordville
low level schedule and high level schedule
low-voltage fluorescent character-display tube
meteorological elements
metrotome
mis-managed
monaxonic nerve cell
muscle-builders
netshaped
Number Sets
off duck
otitis media catarrhalis acuta
outworldish
pad-reinforced
photo memory
picado
pillbox
pilococcus miscanthi
polysilicon
post-testings
prostacyclin(e)
quinarenes
roust about
rules lawyers
safe burst height
sahuarita
self-sterility plant
semigranulocytes
servo dynamics
shoulder to shoulder
sinskea phaea
solderers
spenged
stationary flat card
subcalcarine gyri
subsequent verification
target center
tauopathy
teeing up
Tompkins Center
trunk pulmonary
Turkish manna
two-thread chain stitch
under the cover of night
vineberg
water seal tank