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
17-hydroxycorticosteroid
AAAI
absorption-type refrigerating machine
acute nonoliguric renal failure
antioxidant carrier
atmospheric envelope
B picture, B-picture
background diabetic retinopathy
balanine
be amazed at
bisorcic
Boccaccio
bounded closed set
brass plate
callitrisoid
canales caroticus
cardelmycin
charons
chlamys inaequivalvis
class of soil
commonplacenesses
consumer substation
cotter pin drill
Davao del Norte, Prov.of
decarli
developing winding
dihydroergotmine
discounting of book-credits
Dolphin I.
ebrary
ECSL
endorphinology
error probability classification
fanaticise
Federal tax deposit system
feoffment
field of plane on a manifold
field training detachment
find favor with
floor-sweeping
foids
gdfcf
geffert
genetically engineered
Gluck, Alma
Gongsun
gordon setters
health maintenance programs
hogringers
hospitaler
hypersympathicotonus
instructive cases
intertarsal sac
job-oriented terminal
kobaltblende (jaipurite)
Kolmogorov
leptomeningeal hyperemia
lesse
macrosiphoniella sanborni (gillette)
magmatophile element
magneto-mechanical effect
Magnolia elliptigemmata
megatrypanum
melanotheca rubromaculata
merosymmetry
Mersey sound
myotenolysis
navrongoes
nfl
no-numeric application
opportunistic infections
out of swim
out on the town
overrestored
paralleling of fets
pedit
play up to someone
Rashshah
Raudive
relational indexing
secondary biliary dyskinesia
series pyrolysis
short selling
sizism
sub-problem
superconducting quantum interference device
supervised classification
swiss-made
Timber-tract
tondo
tracery window
trading capital
two-axis laser gyroscope
unconfined condition
unheightened
UVXL
verberating
Vieste
whiskey neat
zelda
zimelidine