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
___ city
about shipping
amblystegite
aminogram
beekley gauge
bethout
boat-stretcher
bourdonasse
caoutchoucin
capacity regulation of single unit
cawdel
confederacion
craftivism
creddil
culled out
curbless
dean chan.
deflecting bar
demersed
diagnostic trouble code
different grades
direct transmitter
double impulse
drop angle
dual-temperature exchange
egorova
emotion-driven
end wall bracket
erithacus johnstoniae
esthetic dentistry
euhemeristically
exert oneself
fistula of uterus
flume
foam agent
friction tester
gelatinations
hand tool rest
hemigymnus melapterus
host library
imidazolidinones
index of refraction (refractive index)
input/output request control block
intestinal calculus
kabat
laffey
macro scopic concept
magoos
mass heat capacity
metacolloid
metaknowledge,meta-knowledge
might should
mild-weather
minirebellions
monoceromyia similis
motoryacht
nicomol
Niloscope
nonupler
not hold your breath
notifying
nucleus of inferior colliculus
off licences
olympiad
oopsing
over without bill
Piper mullesua
platooned
plumbing snake
polysymmetrical
powerdisplays
present to the mind
priodax
procurement division
publius terentius afers
pump of constant delivery type
racemosely
raise the embargo on
reactor coolant pressure boundary
regular channels
regular-lay right lay
repair jetty
returnik
rolinex
rubidium chromium(iii) sulfate
side-hole planting
simultaneous backfilling device
slap ... on
snow sampler
specified waiting time for unloading
spring-loadeds
stertorously
Tao Ji
technodazzle
theory of structures
toprow
Trituberculata
triumphalisms
unmarried women
unpack format
vibronic