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。
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a breath of life
adhesive sealing machine
ance keloid
ancestry filter
Aristophanic man
aristotle's
asymmetrical hearing loss
auricidine
Be easy!
be not a huckleberry to one's persimmon
bit-interleaving technique
boxed comments
Brazilian blowout
can you beat that?
Caput reflexum
casagemas
catchiness
constant-pressure specific heat
conversion temperature
counterfactual analysis
criniere
deorsumvergence
divoto
dog curtain
dry dock ship construction basin
emigrator
extensional set
factor in market change
fan-coil air-conditioning system
Fidden
fine broken rice
floriform cataract
flow measuring structure
fredrilksonite
fruit fitting
fuel-economy penalty
genus Daboecia
gradient of equal traction
gravicembali
Handa I.
hwy.
IEAK
in proximity of
industrial service and institutions division
initial access time
initial seek interrupt
interlacery
investigation boat
ion(ic) mobility
K-14 sight
Kabanda
Mail float
miguel hidalgo y costilla
Min Stable Closed Loop Gain
mixed loan
moone
movabilities
Mutula
narrable
nichel
nonimpinging injector
obviative
of ship's survey
open bites
open-account basis
order Liliales
Ottawa Agreement
perisporangiate
pickietar
pig laurels
polytechnic instruction
power engineering
prohibitive import duty
provide the leads for
pteralium
Queen Elizabeth Is.
Querenhorst
rascaller
resiege
rev'g
rose diamonds
rubber compounding
schwertzer's reagent
seedcoats
Shiga-kogen
single lamp
sioteran
small liquid separator
snow primrose
socializer
soldering-block
Soueich
strength group
tasten
tetrasyllable
track stresses
transboundaries
triflurine
tripudiary
usual channel
vocational counsellor
welsh springer spaniels