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
2-cinnamoyl-1-naphthol
a prep school
Aketi
astragalus bone
autoalgometric
auxis hira
axis shift
boranyl
brake shoe assembly
cable drive
calking strip
center of reduction
Cinderella service
city maintenance construction tax
concem
consts
Dankalia Prov.
designer socialist
diploteratology
donkey drop
earned-incomes
effective kilogram (ekg)
embarkation point
European lemming
evaporating basin
family Soleidae
firth-of-clyde
fuel chute
fuel runout warning device
fuselage afterbody
geochemistry of landscape
geometrical-optical approximation
heavy whipping cream
hub height
Ignat'yevskaya
ignitron control
infinite distributivity
inscribed rectangle
intermittent pressing
Kakeroma-jima
Kanchanadit
kosuth
lac cable
linear action
locally attached terminal
low-lifers
lycoris sprengeri bak.
maintenance of capital
matsuyama reversed polarity chron
meadow fescues
middle-cut file
mortgage contract
neobythites longipes
oesophagogastric junctions
one's best bib and tucker
outcheating
parachute ground trainer
pavlovas
periodontal dressing
permutation distribution
peshtigo
pithlike
point view
pourthiaea villosa chingshuiensis
primary productivity
Private mode
progressive average inventory method
Quevaucamps
Rabdosia lungshengensis
raw neck
read/write memory
red in the face
reinflated
rental cost
sand rammer
sap up on sb
Schuller's glands
seriosity
SFAR
shaking appliance
singular cohomology(group)
slippage cross
stub tooth gear
suburbanize
sunphotometry
taciturnity
throw down one's arms
tlaxcalan
total child education
trilateral agreement
uk slang
ultimate failure
us visa
vena thoracoepigastrica
ventilating opening
vice-premier
waubesa
Web mining
weld flash
Whitlock
with eager anticipation
world commission on environment and development