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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Security has been restored after a deadly attack on the Afghan capital Kabul. After 20 Taliban gunmen and suicide bombers 1 stormed government buildings in one of the most heavily fortified 2 parts of the city. At least 12 people are dead and 71 others wounded. 


The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on the UN Security Council to authorize 3 the deployment 4 of thousands of additional police and soldiers to Haiti. Reports from the ground have spoken of tensions rising and instances of looting and disorder 5.The UN special envoy 6 to Haiti Bill Clinton has arrived in Port-au-Prince to deliver relief supplies and get a first-hand look at conditions in the quake-crippled country. 


And the Prime Minister’s called on Australians to take decisive action to drive up productivity to improve living standards. Kevin Rudd has warned the country will struggle to cope with an ageing population if there isn’t greater economic output from each worker. He’s released new Treasury 7 figures which show if Australia improves its productivity, it would add around half a trillion dollars to economic output a year by 2050. Support for the Prime Minister is slipping though, according to the latest Newspoll, he’s down three points as preferred Prime Minister. 


And that’s your ABC News up-to-date.



1 bombers
n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 );投弹手;安非他明胶囊;大麻叶香烟
  • Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 fortified
adj. 加强的
  • He fortified himself against the cold with a hot drink. 他喝了一杯热饮御寒。
  • The enemy drew back into a few fortified points. 敌人收缩到几个据点里。
3 authorize
v.授权,委任;批准,认可
  • He said that he needed to get his supervisor to authorize my refund.他说必须让主管人员批准我的退款。
  • Only the President could authorize the use of the atomic bomb.只有总统才能授权使用原子弹。
4 deployment
n. 部署,展开
  • He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
  • Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。
5 disorder
n.紊乱,混乱;骚动,骚乱;疾病,失调
  • When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后,他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
  • It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。
6 envoy
n.使节,使者,代表,公使
  • Their envoy showed no sign of responding to our proposals.他们的代表对我方的提议毫无回应的迹象。
  • The government has not yet appointed an envoy to the area.政府尚未向这一地区派过外交官。
7 treasury
n.宝库;国库,金库;文库
  • The Treasury was opposed in principle to the proposals.财政部原则上反对这些提案。
  • This book is a treasury of useful information.这本书是有价值的信息宝库。
学英语单词
2-methyl-3-furancarboxylic acid
an open hand
anallagmatic
ATM switch
auricular block
Austurland
bathymetric line
bilker
bron
buccinator muscle
Bush Parole
cam and camshaft grinding maching
center-gauge
centertapped
chivalrous
chlidonias hybrida hybrida
chord of the four three
circular polarization antenna
constant-scanning
contractarianism
counter drill
CTR - click-through rate
cunestable
damerau
digital elevation model
dispeticioun
do one proud
Dolalgin
draughter gauge
dulls
ecoteur
emergency stairs
engirdle
Eria formosana
ethical value
ethyldiisoamyltin bromide
faiq
fanfare
fingerplate
free-height
Fulayj al Janūbī
gas generation
GD3
generative semantics
genus Sphacele
graphics viewer
great effort
greco-latin
greppi
Guimaras Str.
have an ax to grind
homoclinal shifting
hue circle
Huka Falls
inter-repeater links
iresenin
jack-knifes
krazkowski
Les Eyzies
Lobelia taliensis
Lysionotus angustisepalus
neglectly
non-revenue flight
not another word
Nyadire
nyctinastic movement
o'reilly
pentagonal prisms
picromerite
posterior lateral seta
preparable
raw metal
reduction of latitude
respited
retroflexio
rheinisch massif
ribitylfiavin
right of subrogation
Rākābād
secular vicar
sequestering activity
shop repair
shrinks
Siam, G. of
Siatista
stop-go control
subparallel fault
super helix
tabbiest
transpadane
Tryptizol
Tuamotu Ridge
tubus vertebralis
Tullamarine International Airport
unit separation
utility card input
vehicular load
voyeurists
watch for
well-designed form
wire-rimmed
zoometric