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%.


 


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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
abreption
absorbing centres
aggressive growth
air suction port
Aliverion
arrowstone (chert)
as safe as a houses
baaders
batistas
be gone with the wind
beat the bounds
bidirectional coupler
boanns
brick ice cream
by the skin of their teeth
calcium monoiodobehenate
centre-circle
cimexes
claesson
cloudburst treatment forming
conditions of end fixity
cost man
critical defect size
cross-piece
cytohistologic zonation
dongchon (tongchon)
Etacarlide
extended radio source
farmland capital construction
femme fatales
financial administrator
fluid coolant
fort detrick
fructus caryophylli
fully stocked wood
fumitory
gainp/gaas bipolar transistor
give no quarter quarters
Goodyera yangmeishanensis
Gordona
hulagu
hydraulics of open channels
hydrofluosilicic acids
hydrogen-relief annealing
internal loop
interstratal karst
Irving's method
konjak
large-sample distribution
laternula attenuata
levee sloughing
loving-kindness
Lutzen
measlesvoccine
medical-equipment
medium-grit
melanoderma
monovalent phage
multiple vibration mode
nail-tailed kangaroos
Nanzhou Township
Nova Scotia Pen.
old tree
optical character viewer
panel plate
partial excision of ear
pit orifice
pressure type waterproof lubricating device
process state word
protected imports
psychological cost
psychology of creative
radio resource control
radiorace
ravioli code
reliability organization
Risly prism
rothkopf
rubber sheet gasketing
safety gap
saxellos
sheristadar
shrubbed
single clock
slorry
software license
spirin
state-subsidized
table vice
telescopic conductor
temporal role
terminal stage
the honourable gentleman
TSARO
Twi-tards
Umm Laylāyah
unlawful deaths
veiovis
venna
whitmeate
work style
Zucaina