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
abstract standard
Alliaria petiolata
anaphylaxis in vitro
azadirone
beer-tokens, beer-vouchers
benzyl acetate
bluebead
butter cake
card punch unit
carrer
chronic leukemias
collection boxes
color quad image processor
common metal
compensatory pressure
conkell
Contract of Domestic Carriage of Passengers by Sea
corticotropin (corticotrophin)
cylinder cover top
cylinder papermaking machine
daphneticin
derived algebra
dielectric loss factor
displacement equation
Doldram
downwind
dry construction partition
economic stagnation
electron wave length
escoparone
evergreen forest
experientialists
external receptor
fee television
flexible driven gear
Forseti
foundry production line
four quadrant operation
function computer and client computer
G-ION
glue manufacturing room
great idea
green electetrode
group delay spread
Guildford
Hatty
holness
impact multiplier
integrated circuit test clip
internal - combustion engines
ion absorption
keep up with the times
Koranites
Leontopodium delavayanum
liebfrauenkirche
lifesaver
livestock diagnostics
lockstitch indexing cam
Love wave
lshtm
Malaya Lipovka
Muller, Peg.
multi-valued
Neuhofen an der Krems
no-prisoners
nonaviation
perfusional
pigsnies
pink-eyed
plaque-forming cell
Polygala reinii Franch. et Sav.
Populus duclouxiana
pre-exceptional
propugner
quickly drying colour
radical line
Ray Cattell
reader-copier
reduced tree structure
ridge convexity
rode on
rothstein
salt-crystal cast
scene of air-sea-rescue frequency
scratch impact
selective searching
shockumentaries
single-boiler single-turbine unit
six-way valve
sparrowgrass
Sperlinga
stobbs
syphon(pipe,tube)
tampkin
tantalian
teleprinter keyboard
tibiofemoral fossae
tra-ra
uneven development
urgency traffic
virgil thomsons
weighing level gage