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
accompanieth
aeronautical radioleacon
air exchange fan
Americana.
analysis of winner's curse hypothesis
Andovce
archamia goni
automatic design engineering
bassi profundi
biantheriferous
Big Brotherly
bobsled
braking assembly
Bunge's theory
bunlike
Burmannia coelestis
cardiocerebrovascular
cgma
Chassaignac's axillary muscle
Chlorbutin
Cladothrix natans
covenantors
cryoprison
doctor-patient relationship
donezo
dot and carry one
effcetive output
electric bassist
enstead
epoxy bituminous lacquer
exaristate
finned can
flag locker
Gay-Lussac tower
GDDS
glass stress
ground resistivity
group-sex
horseflesh ore
hostile act
humourizing
hune
IL-9
immunological homeostasis
in regular series
intervalley-transfer mechanism
invagination
inverse Raman scattering
italicate
jizz-mopper
Leadbelly
leptodontous
Lincomix
liquid-sealing compound
list current file
local magnetic anomaly
maikona yazakii
maxillary tuberoplasty
memory mapping list
microgliacytes
moment of a vector
multirate optical frequency hopping
National Postal Museum
near share
Noctem
nocuity
nonverbose
oil conduit
pasteur enzyme
photosphere
point the finger at someone
port bower
projective properties
property management company
puoztas
reded
redip
relivers
reproductive medicine
rheumatologists
safe passages
Salzkammergut
sobon
Soluch
stability quality
styracine
subarm
symbolic analogy
tail with the stream
Tebecid
Theodosius the Great
three winding
triencephalus
unagreeing
unblissfulness
Untsukul'skiy Rayon
vallois
viremic
washed cell suspension
welding leads
wellsquared
wrought