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 US President Barack Obama has taken responsibility for the foiled 1 Christmas Day plane bombing, saying the buck 2 stops with him. Security reviews into the attempted attack are now complete. Mr. Obama says the incident wasn't the fault of a single individual but a widespread system failure. He's ordered a range of improvements to strengthen security.




The Sea Shepherd's anti-whaling vessel 3, the Ady Gil has sunk in the southern ocean. It was badly damaged in a collision with a Japanese whaler and was being towed 4 when it sank early this morning. Meanwhile, government officials from Japan and New Zealand have met in Wellington to discuss who was responsible for the crash.




Police say a number of suspects remain in the murder of Sydney businessman Michael McGurk following a re-enactment of his death last night. Police recreated the moments in which the 45-year-old was gunned down outside his north shore home in September. The operation found it's most likely Mr. McGurk's attacker killed him with a handgun at a short range.




And today it's said to be the coldest so far in northern Europe. The conditions have left many people dead and another Eurostar train stranded 5 in the Channel Tunnel. Yesterday the average temperature in Britain was only two degrees warmer than the North Pole.




I'll be back with more updates later.


 



1 foiled
adj.有叶形装饰的v.挫败,使受挫折( foil的过去式和过去分词 )
  • We foiled his attempt to escape. 我们挫败了他逃跑的企图。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • They were foiled in their attempt. 他们的企图成了泡影。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
2 buck
n.雄鹿,雄兔;v.马离地跳跃
  • The boy bent curiously to the skeleton of the buck.这个男孩好奇地弯下身去看鹿的骸骨。
  • The female deer attracts the buck with high-pitched sounds.雌鹿以尖声吸引雄鹿。
3 vessel
n.船舶;容器,器皿;管,导管,血管
  • The vessel is fully loaded with cargo for Shanghai.这艘船满载货物驶往上海。
  • You should put the water into a vessel.你应该把水装入容器中。
4 towed
v.拖,拉,拽( tow的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Our car was towed away by the police. 我们的汽车被警察拖走了。
  • The tugboat towed the damaged ship into port. 拖船把坏了的船拖进港口。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
5 stranded
a.搁浅的,进退两难的
  • He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里, 身无分文,一筹莫展。
  • I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市,既没有钱,又没有朋友。
学英语单词
a ton by measurement
adjustable current setting
ambajogai (mominabad)
anguiner
Arnold Engineering Development Center
ARPA network message
asphyxiating thoracic dysplasia
be in compression
biological adaptation
blood vascular system (or haemal system)
blue-earth
Bota, Sungai
bubble top
colysis henryi ching
compaas
corrody
curvilinearity
cuti-
density interferometer
disk induction motor
Do you understand
doglet
driveline
dropzone
elastic wedge
Eleazar ben Judah Of Worms
entosternum
factualities
family argonautidaes
family planning policy
firstlights
forced-circulation straight-tube steam generator
gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer
Gauss constant
gospel of temperance
handing stolen goods
heb
helping out
hidden-knowledge model
high-level language application programming interface
hyperglobal
intek
irritative cervical sympathetic paralysis
isothyme
journees
keep your distance
kistner
kunai
lagged indicator
lattice reciprocal
legal protection
limiting concentra-tion
liquid-like
list execution condition
low-pollution
machine saw
make one's acquaintance
mallee scrub
manning's coefficient of roughness
marketing director
micro cyclone
microbacillary
native gold
objectizes
oil tanker fleet
P. G. Wodehouse
partly-adjustable weir
piecks
pineapple essence
Pitot's tubes
polymerises
prediction lag
pristinely
proportional-integral-differential
reshape handles
sapropelic substance
secondary alerting system
set sth down
shell and tube heat exchanger
sileages
silicotics
simple epithlium
specific Gibbs free energy
submarine plain
sulphonitriding
sunset budgeting
superstructure end
surfagage
swing line
systema nervorum sympathicum
technical schools
Theodore Of Mopsuestia
thienodiazepines
tildesleys
torch light bulb
tricolons
unfisting
upon second thought s
varicosity in pregnancy
warm-sensitive neuron
weighing station
Znamenka