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-oxo-propanal
Achillea wilsoniana
ADGB
anti-reflection
associaton type
audio-discs
Bomlafjorden
casting speed
caudal limb of intestinal loop
cephalotripsies
changing weight
complete knocked down
confluent interpolation polynomial
contagious bovine pleuropneumonia
cresyl hydrate
Cross-site script
emergency outlet
erigeron divergenss
Ettumanur
filled electronic shell
flux jumping
fractions
frills and furbelows
gene dosage compensation
Hellenian
helper steam turbine
hemal tuft
hexachloroplatinate
hifly
high-vacuum pump
hoehne
host independent
induction system
interlochen
International Ship Structure Congress
inverted lotus
Judasly
Kahayan, Sungai
krohg
lysogenic bacteria
made contact with
music style
nipa fruticanss
Nova Almeida
ogling
one-to-one relationship
Oompa Loompas
operating radius
orifice sleeve
orph
Pilot Hill
places
polymethyl methacrylate resin
port timber
power warning interrupt
Prey Veng, Khet
pulmonary congestion
pyrotechnics
quality meter
quick-look record
Radchenskoye
radiation capacity
rear-car
red squads
regular connector
resolve ambiguity
returnee
ridge square horn
rossby energy cycle
sayle
Semiliquidambar chingii
skywatcher
slipper pump
Soret coefficient
soupfins
speech-recognition terminal
spit negative
station selection impulse
stereo-microscope
sulfonat
surface treating agent
systemic financial crisis
T/T (telegraphic transfer)
tasselet
Tel'manove
transmission code
triac
tumor of seminal vesicle
two-beam interferometry
Uniform Management System
untransferrable
verries
Villar de Olalla
virtual root
Voronovo
Wairoa R.
waste pad
water hold up
wolfendens
wonkfest
Xiangkhoang, Khouèng
Yapé