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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The Federal Opposition 1 is demanding the government inspect all homes insulated under its failed scheme. More than one million homes have been insulated under the program. But the government's paying for just 200,000 of them to be checked. The Opposition's warning home owners could be left without insurance if the work isn't checked.


The Thai prime minister says he won't cave in to demands that he dissolve Parliament. Tens of thousands of Red Shirts are calling for the government to step down and hold fresh elections.


A top US official has accused Israel of insulting the White House over plans to build 1,600 new homes in East Jerusalem. President Obama's Chief Advisor 2 David Axelrod has slammed Israel for hampering 3 Mid-East peace talks by making the announcement during Vice 4 President Joe Biden's tour of the region.


The weather bureau is closely monitoring Cyclone 5 Ului which passed the south of the Solomon Islands last night. The storm has been downgraded to a Category-4 system and isn't expected to hit the Queensland coast until late this week.


And Australian cricket vice-captain Michael Clarke is on his way back to New Zealand after a week of media scrutiny 6 over his breakup with Lara Bingle. He is heading to Wellington with other members of the Australian squad 7 for the two-Test series against New Zealand.


 


More news later.



1 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。
2 advisor
n.顾问,指导老师,劝告者
  • They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
  • The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。
3 hampering
妨碍,束缚,限制( hamper的现在分词 )
  • So fraud on cows and development aid is seriously hampering growth. 因此在牛问题上和发展补助上的诈骗严重阻碍了发展。
  • Short-termism, carbon-trading, disputing the science-are hampering the implementation of direct economically-led objectives. 短效主义,出售二氧化碳,进行科学辩论,这些都不利于实现以经济为主导的直接目标。
4 vice
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
5 cyclone
n.旋风,龙卷风
  • An exceptionally violent cyclone hit the town last night.昨晚异常猛烈的旋风吹袭了那个小镇。
  • The cyclone brought misery to thousands of people.旋风给成千上万的人带来苦难。
6 scrutiny
n.详细检查,仔细观察
  • His work looks all right,but it will not bear scrutiny.他的工作似乎很好,但是经不起仔细检查。
  • Few wives in their forties can weather such a scrutiny.很少年过四十的妻子经得起这么仔细的观察。
7 squad
n.班,小队,小团体;vt.把…编成班或小组
  • The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
  • A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。
学英语单词
a piece of crap
acupuncturology
all-scale model
allocation principle
ammonia valve
automatic tacheometer
battle of Tewkesbury
be in resolved
berthes
brake shoe back
cash on the barrel-head
Cepaloram
chestless
chromosome aberration analysis
cold reheat
commendable
compartmental models
conversationonline
conveyor coal blocking transducer
cuboes
dairyer
dark plum
decalcification potential
differentes
diphosphide
doggoes
Donjeux
doorchime
dr-doss
earn-out
epipharyngeal
ethyl carfluzepate
execution profile
feldspathic index
fin type chaffer
flog one's log
fly at someone's throat
Franssen effect
gastroenterostomia retrocolica
generic formal object
gnoses
gourd families
Gurltia
head-money
hemiblock
hydroethidine
ideographic dimension
incomplete observation
installment bonds
joulter
Karr column
Kempeitai
labor insurance statistics
live wood
macromorphologic
married persons
Megaris
molecular dynamic methodMD
moving coil receiver
nail drawer
nodosa polyarteritis
nomothetic science
non-record
nuwiba
Odongdo
overall amplification
Pakleni Otoci
panoplay
PenCom
pericentriolar
petrifying water
picture rail, picture rod
properly divergent
readeress
regio suprascapularis
silvino
smuggling case
sneeriness
spline shaft grinder
static suction lift
strength of ebb interval
substantive procedure
sudest
superoctaves
São Sebastião do Oeste
target income sales
teachers' institute
threelane
Tithonus
total capability for load
unscissored
uranium roll
vagroms
verrone
vibrating screen classifier
wandle
wax end
write allocate
xanthomata
Xiao'erjing
Yun Shouping
zealous witness