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
Aegialitidae
Alto Coité
androcidal action
aniracetam
anotha
AQC
battiston
biopeptides
biparental
black-body radiation
bloodfeud
bonderlube
brickhammer
bugsy
bundle-branch heart-block
Chinese Industrial Standard
collapsing force
comfortable as an old shoe
competitive with
database reorganization
decade
di-hexahedron
disease-prevention
dyrege
dysfibrinogenemia
Elburz, Mountains
endogenising
entomophthoraceaes
Erysimum schneideri
Fenelzin
fixed bed catalytic reactor
flash electrically erasable programmable read-only memories
foresight
get the chair
glycyol
government bulk buying
green chemistry
grounded-base amplifier
group event
hammer-and-tongs
handings over
heat power plant
hepatogastroenteroiogy
heterophagocytosis
high-jumper
huaco
hyt
in the weather
interfuse
intermediate-level radioactive waste
John Orley Allen Tate
Kaduyskiy Rayon
key operated brake
lapira
machine status bit
martairesinoside
mechanicals
meet by accident
Mesonemertini
MK-591
national budget system
nickelsberg
not do something for the world
orthogonal polynomial regression
outgear
Pangkalanbuun
permis
permissive action
pick up hole
pleurogynous
plural
polytomic table
prionogenic
prohibited usage
proliferated
puopulsion engine
Rutherford scattering formula
scratch papers
second place
secure the engine
semicastrate
side pillar
signature record
sitars
slitter operator
social order
statutory executor
strength of connection
subprogrammes
synthesisable
syphilitic leplkoderma
Tabular format
tactical data entry unit
time-tablings
Too Irish !
train shed
tubulitis
unwieldly
yacoubous
zinc baryta white
zoarcid