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 random
affect adjective checklist
aglaia elaeagnoidea benth.var.formosana hay
ambidextrality
anesthesia apparatus
ansae of Reil
automatic advice of duration
awaken sb to sth
axial nerve system
bandstrated
be on the right track
bradyuria
Calanthe sacculata
carry lookahead generator
castanopsis cuspidata carlesii sessilis
charpit
chemosurgical
Chinese walnut
chubbily
computer software cost
contoids
cooperia
copper cake
crct
cyclopropenone
dinitrothiophosphate
dispermic tetrafoil egg
dughtie
electromagnetic deflector alignment system
elevated walkway
entoconid
Even up the Score
exempt from furnishing guaranty
fetalmembrane
function-cost relationship
glomerul-
gynacantha saltatrix
half-amplitude point
hemispherical radiation properties
horse mule
hydraulic servo steering
impossible figure
inrushes
interwirings
kick-backs
leaf-hoppers
lemmaphyllum rostratum
leniquinsin
Leo's tests
lvf
make a fool of sb
male antifertilizing agent
maximax
metallic network
mierda
misascriptions
molecular optics
mwata
N-methylhydrazie
older-model
optical detection electron spin resonance (odesr)
parasiege
pegmatophyre
pehrs
phouthang
Phuthaditjhaba
place under repair
polishedness
procinolol
pyloric gland like appendages
reappraisals
reniform texture
rock smasher
root cutter with cleaning cage
screw thread angle
security book
self taught
self-estrangements
shoal area
single buoy mooring system (sbm)
soil and water conservation tillage measures
sportwear
Staeger test
star network topology
sunlinks
sunset industries
swallow buoy
swivel safty cargo hook
synthetic plan of stripping and mining
teacher grievances
thibetanus
throttle condenser
TSIF
Tsuken-jima
turbulent shear
underfeed furnace
unhap'ly
vertical water tube boiler
vinnen
weld flange connection
west sides