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
'soize
accretion topography
adoption curves
amylostatin
aroma formers
Barcelonan
biological sand filter
birthday presents
black border effect
bradyseisms
Buhuanjin Zhengqi San
cadir dagi
cameramount
capacity for differentiating colours
catch a hare with a tabour
central tissue
chansons d'amour
clubmobile
concave roller
coregulators
Cypripedium micranthum
determination limit
dixielander
edematoscheocele
electric discharge atomic vapor laser
electric-displacement
emergency lighting system
environmental mutagenesis
footage.
free starch
gas pressure cable
genus galeorhinuss
giant sunfish
goera prominens
gozle
Grosse I.
ground water storage
Hassid
homeotropically
hypomagnesaemias
ibooks
interaction picture equation
isopropylphenylcarbinol
Joubert
kaama
La Cavalerie
ladden
lauster
Lely
lithium nitrate
lysogenic bacteria
m-video
magnesium-lithium alloy
make a place warm for someone
Matthiola
minor term
mirrer
mitral facies
monoger
multi-mode control
myrmecophila
Navigator Islands
netting theory
nitramidine
notice of resignation
pantelephone
partway
passive homing gnidance
political pundit
positive action
possessedness
pre-wear
predivision (darlington 1937)
pressure side of the blade
Punchmen
ran off
rau
renal sclerosis
repeated sorting
retail centre
rogue waves
Samani
Sankt Ingbert
saphenamycin
semen zanthoxyli
separate transactions
snakingly
sorry
subtleship
such a one
T-member
Telcuman
tumbu disease
ultra-short wave wireless telephone
uncalmly
unrefining
unwall
vacuum freeze drier
vertical run
water use coefficient
Xt.
zawiya