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
atheroma of skin
bar code
baruchel
benzoxazinyl-
bucket grab
calcium borogluconate
cogit
commom-ion effect
common cattail
condition resolutive
contour light
defatted rice bran
dehydromakisterone
delivery gear
descriptive ethics
Dischidia formosana
domiphen
draining plow
electropneumatic train stop valve
ellie
ensituximab
euthanasians
even symmetry
family Edaphosauridae
Faville-La Vally tester
feel sb's pulse
field energy density
fiery cross
Fijianness
floodlit
garrison ration
genus Coelophysis
genus parrotiopses
get crunked
goshdangit
gray skate
Hall conductivity
hammer head
hapax legomena
have no occasion for
Heteroantigens
high-order parabola
impact pressure
in-spawn
incremental reform
industrialized production
international relations
Jian Township
jivy
Lie derivative
linelock playback mode
macroarchitecture
Mattarello
maxmaras
Medvezh'ye
Mepem
Nahles
noise-reduction coefficient
operating rooms
pardalinum
plant product export
plastic molded material
plumegrasses
plumula nelambinis
Polyosmin
poroscope
proscenium arch
radioactivity cooling
rattray hd.
remote modem
repetitious excitation
repetitive forms
sagramosos
scriptum
secondary cooling water loop
sphenodon punctatums
standard spending assessment
start stop
stellar pulsation
stercoral fistula
straight beam
subodontoblastic
swirl flaps
taenia cinerea
tail pump
test on sanding gear
the tabernacle
to be employed in agriculture
to the annoyance of
TPTH
triangular beacon
trunk transmission line
tube transformer
United States Law of State Immunity
voice portal
War Risks Insurance Office
weight loss on drying
worst-case complexity
Zehdenick
zodiacal zone
zone unloading procedure