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
a bag of game
air tube
altertumswissenschaft
arccosecant
atrophia pilorum propria
available characteristic
barium sulfophenylate
beatist
Bellerophontes
bergy
biorhythmicity
biradiatus
Bol'shaya Izhora
Bowen fluorescence mechanism
Bukowno
canned response
cas(si)mere
cladogenesis
clover key
contact pollution
cytreld
dill seed oil
diving-suit
double-deck machine
dowsetts
Durand, Récif
elliptic singular point
enter on business
errant polychaete
erucyl amide
explicit specific
external ram control valve
Ezeiza, Aeropuerto Internat de
farm tools showroom
flash shield
gambollings
general fallow
Gentiana serra
geochrone
glenrock
haselkorn
Hildebrandslied
home-road
horse-shoe arch
hysteric conversion
ice colors
ice water treatment
independent solution
Kichuy
knuckle pivot
lymphadenosarcoma
manpower utilization
matchroom
metal sandwich
methyl carvacryl ketone
monumental peak
Oktyabrskiy
oligonephria
orquhelm
out of key
palletization
paranthracene
PDDA
perfect representation
perical
period of availability
permitholders
pink cornworm
pituicytes
pre-budget
pregenital plate
protozoum
rapid cooking
remonstrated
rhabdophane(rhabdophanite)
ride-share
sedge peat
seeding operation
semi-conductive polymer
sierra madre ra.
skinless frankfurters
Skunk Works
sour grape
spark retardation
spenalate
stiil
streets ahead (of)
subscribervision
supraclavicular nerves
swinging-door chads
Szechwan preserved vegetable
trigonosoma tropida
two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum
Tīn, Ra's at
Udehe
unattributability
VADE (versatile automatic data exchange)
virgin comb
Wesleyan Methodists
wilting phenomena
writedown
zinc coated wire rope