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
Accu-Pak
all fourss
alphanumeric system
ambe
amfetaminil
Andreyev, Leonid Nikolaevich
angular phase difference
angular travel method
aquatone
area of heat-supply service
argon-argon dating
artificial barriers
ballclays
base collector
blow your top
Bomlo
bottle brushing machine
bubble level
bubbling steam
calkil
cannon-bone
capacity to bear loss
chimney cloud
cobweb coating
colopholic acid
combined strainer and check valve
compensatory gymnastics
confidential secretary
congenital malformations
Corynebacterium lilium
cretics
demeanors
desacralize
desulphurizing ability
elephantlike
FI (fouling index)
genus palometas
guaranty funds
half floor
headboy
helianthus tuberosuss
Hepagonnovum
heterodyne detection method
hydrodynamic pool
hyperphosphorylate
hypoanxious
internal human resource market
internal toothed friction plate
iso-antibody
kennings
linguistic ties
longitudinal research
Lotus Vale
magnesium antimonate
main reduction gear
marginalist
Matabuena
maxer
meta-
method of regulating yield by comparing actual with normal crops
neon tetra
nomotechnic
non-operating outlay
nonsynonymous
normal mode solution
obstructive pneumonia
oncomouse
outweeps
pathologic diagnosis
perivitelline membrane
place-bound
Platytheca
play-only
ppiases
put the snatch on
rake dozer
reide
restricted access area
revolving non-cumulative credit
scaldrag
sediment induced deformation
send off someone
Severnyy Ural, Gory
Shel Silverstein
shelf department
spiked heel
statement logic
stock - based compensation
substantial particle
tettest
theory of the Yin and Yang
throw into consternation
tokheses
toolset
toxicology
transversion malposition
unimitable
Victoria sponges
voice output
volcano shore line
W.R.
zachariahs