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
a deem
a grain of truth
abietadienic
accumulated soil enzyme
acogs
actor-writer
aeroplane accident
air-borne vibration
anglesea islands
antenna farm
archaeobotanist
astrength
bare noun
bellyrings
blind thrust fault
bowed
brassin
buffier
burst oneself
Catorce
chadwickite
chorizagrotis auxiliariss
cofeed
connection-oriented service
corner hit
corporate action reminder
crucily
cunting
curabilities
dioctylsulfoxide
distributing water pipe of cylinder block
dog race
e.f.l
emergency trip switch
Ethniu
examine for wear and tear
family Nitrobacteriaceae
full-duplex service
gas purged pressure recording gauge
genus Hylocichla
hacteriotoxemia
half (first) cousin
hexadecimal multiplication
humo ferric podzol
iliacus muscle
impregnation method by pressure
individual agents
internal-force
isobutyl amine
ketona
lepidotum
logophasia
loss in tube
Matched order
medicaid case name
metalenses
methyl alcohol poisoning
MMULV
mobile electronic transactions
motorized wheel
moving away from people
muricola prowazekii
noncarrier multimodal transport operator
on-sale
peden
pentazocine hydrochloride
personal reputation
Peterskirchen
petticoats
Pharm-Index
picture-and-sound
potassium plants
power device
practioners are taken by surprise at practising
proof pressure
pruninghooks
Pseudolarix kaempferi
Psocomorpha
push pull modulation
quartz-latite
root primordium
rubber-covering machine
Saccharomyces mycoderma
salvationists
Saxifraga bijiangensis
secondary salinization of land
semikon
sesquisulfide
subtolerance dose
suchet
swear a charge against sb
teacakes
trone weight
two-phase commit protocol
vainamoinen
ventral sucker
verole nerveuse
wall in
wave launcher
world-renown
worrywart
Zinnia multiflora