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
acidified
adenosinergic
alcerocoris formosanus
AND-connection
backing memory
backup lights
bahariya oasis
blue-chip rate
butt dowel
butyl hydroxy toluene
butynoic acid
camel-back top chord
canteloupe
carved lacquer stool
cedek
chemical plants
circle illumination
coding pulse multiple
compressive pre-stress
control-oil pressure
cruising altitude
cushion moss
CV (common version)
DATAC
dependency allowance
Dibenzoxepins
diode mixer
directory and security services
discrete particle
discrete sample space
dishallows
do credit to
Douglas Elton Fairbanks
exciting cause
fence rails
Fishberg-Friedfeld tests
flat crown
flip-flops
flower of the winds
fuzzy set sytem
gang-slitter
genitals
genus othonnas
Grijalva Ridge
Hannah Arendt
heroic
high field intensity
homopolar lattice
humic gleysols
hypermakroskelic
in conscience
incendiary grenade
indenture between apprentice and master
international clearinghouse
interstitial wire
james hoggs
kicked our ass
laid papers
linear velocity function
macro-languages
McEvoy
modulation analysis
mogren
muck out
myo(sino)gen
national debt management
Nobres
original magma
parasitic mode suppressor
peet
personalityless
petrolax
Pirkkala
plywood square
pressure-volume curve
PSD file
referencing function
rejuvenescence in tissues
saddle articulation
satellite chromosome
scrutinate
series-parallel circuits
singular plane of congruence
softgel
Spoon R.
stelios
stevedoring crane
subroutine stack
Sunni belt
surfeiters
three-by-five
transmission driven power take-off
triethyl
tropical anticyclone
vertical off normal spring
vibrio sp.
Voortrekkerhoogte
wash on ass's head
white-crowned sparrows
win the cup
wolf-rayet star (w-r star)
workspace architecture