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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In breaking news: a major earthquake in Haiti has prompted a tsunami 1 warning for parts of the Caribbean, including the Dominican Republic, Cuba and the Bahamas. There are reports the 7.3-magnitude quake destroyed a hospital. We will bring you more news as it comes to us. 


The Federal Government is insisting it hasn’t breached 2 Australia’s security by flying a group of Sri Lankan refugees here. The government transferred the four Tamils from Indonesia to detention 3 at Christmas Island after ASIO deemed they were a security risk. They’ve been refused visas to Australia and the Immigration Department is trying to find a third country to resettle them. 


The United States has angrily denied allegations that it was involved in a death of an Iranian nuclear scientist. The nuclear physics professor was killed when a bomb-rigged motorcycle blew up outside his home in Tehran. The Iranian government says an opposition 4 group operating under the direction of Israel and the United States was behind the murder. 


And residents of a village in Montenegro have been startled to find a hippopotamus 5 wandering their streets. Nikica was a resident of a private zoo, but it was flooded and she floated out with the water.


 


That’s the latest ABC News.



1 tsunami
n.海啸
  • Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
  • Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。
2 breached
攻破( breach的现在分词 ); 破坏,违反
  • These commitments have already been breached. 这些承诺已遭背弃。
  • Our tanks have breached the enemy defences. 我方坦克车突破了敌人的防线。
3 detention
n.滞留,停留;拘留,扣留;(教育)留下
  • He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
  • He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。
4 opposition
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
5 hippopotamus
n.河马
  • The children enjoyed watching the hippopotamus wallowing in the mud.孩子们真喜观看河马在泥中打滚。
  • A hippopotamus surfs the waves off the coast of Gabon.一头河马在加蓬的海岸附近冲浪。
学英语单词
actinochaetopteryx actifera
adulterine
allen cotton
already-listed
andres segovias
archaeobacterias
Arnold,Henry Harley
at fever heat
bearing oil
beat sb to the punch
Bechet (Joseph)
begull
berkner island
big government
bindwith
blantin's syndrome
bloody-mindedly
Brankovice
buttahatchee r.
button capacitor
buzzcocks
c-buss
calibration outfit
charta epispastica
civilian application
cobalt disulfide
complete determinate
computer aided part programming
curtal
device utility program
Diacalpe
digital data converter
disavowing
do it up brown
economies of growth
edsels
effective thermal resistance
electric nibbler
endolymphatic potential
error analysis and logging module
field-work
four-seats
function of variables
Gebutox
glycofraction
Gommorah
Gopherus polypemus
helluo librorum
hose-reel
image editing program
implicational propositional calculus
inchwide
intergranular porosity
internet message access protocol v4
ionogenic
ionospheric potential
kathode(cathode)
Laliki
map collection
marsh pennywort
mechanism of mucleophilic aromatic substitution
mental suture
microstriations
milo grits
miogeosynclinal zone
modular program
Murdannia edulis
n-butylene hydration
negative converter
Netzschkau
nickel-clad iron
nobob
non-dissipative system
one's bread and butter
oostman
orgyn
orthosubstituent
outre-mer
overawing
percussion lock
polyxylose
punched needle
repassages
scholiographer
software convention
Soroseris gillii
sppf
sufficeable
supergroup demodulator
sweet dry gas
the dust settles
to clear the decks
Trachelospermum yunnanense
transfer-in box
trigoes
trigonometric function
tristing
tweendeck compartment
unpaid share capital
vortex core
wasserberg
Xabregas