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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Catastrophic fire warnings continue in the south and east of Australia today as temperatures soar into the mid 1 40s. There is a total fire ban in much of Victoria and southern New South Wales. Commuters in Melbourne are facing more delays as the extreme heat causes power failures and cancellation 2 of trains. The city Mel sweltered through its hottest night ever with temperatures at midnight still at 37 degrees. 


Police are questioning a man over a fatal stabbing in Sydney's west last night. Investigators 3 say a man in his 40s was killed during a dispute at a unit block in Belmore. In another case, a 17-year-old boy was stabbed on a bus at Ambarvale while a teenage girl was stabbed during a fight at Surry Hills. 


Chinese officials say they've wrapped up their investigation 4 into the former Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu and are now waiting for prosecutors 5 to decide whether his case will go to trial. 


And tombs found in Egypt have shed new light on the lives of the men who built the pyramids. Archaeologists say the graves suggest the pyramids were built by free workers and not slaves. They ate meals regularly, worked in three-month shifts and were given the honour of being buried  in mud brick tombs. 


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1 mid
adj.中央的,中间的
  • Our mid-term exam is pending.我们就要期中考试了。
  • He switched over to teaching in mid-career.他在而立之年转入教学工作。
2 cancellation
n.删除,取消
  • Heavy seas can cause cancellation of ferry services.海上风浪太大,可能须要取消渡轮服务。
  • Her cancellation of her trip to Paris upset our plan.她取消了巴黎之行打乱了我们的计划。
3 investigators
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
5 prosecutors
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 ); 告发人; 起诉人; 公诉人
  • In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方,检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
  • You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
学英语单词
Alib Ike
Angiostoma
asphalt well
Avery Island
ballondessai
Ban Wang Yai
bilaterals
blown saves
Bragg-Pierce law
breaking-off process
bus bar disconnecting switch
butter paddles
cabinet government
calidities
circulating type oil supply
confirmations
Cormelian
depositional phase
diazosalicylic acid
dishlicker
disruption of the chain reaction
dithio-hydroquinone
electrorheology
emilions
Estagel
fade you
family Vireonidae
fluoromide
fugged us
fur dressing
galiantine
galiardi
gastro-hepatic omentum (or gastro-hepatic ligament)
grand-jury
grave responsibility
grid current capacity
haecceitic
head band
high pressure water jet cutting
high vacuum apparatus
histocompatibility test
inclined impact
jack and the beanstalk
kinetic theory of solids
knight of the Jemnay
labyrinth gland
Lepiota clypeolaria
linespaces
low-frequency ringer
majority statutory
masoods
meridional tangential ray
meteorologic
misacknowledge
miss plant
monjitas
Mān Sat
Naurzumskiy Rayon
neck piece
neo-mercantilists
Niobo-tantalo-titanate
non-anticipating
Nonant
oblique gutter
over-hardy
paul newmen
plfa
protect switch
quasi-personal
rassadorn
reverberatory burning
Ricoh tester
rotary mechanical output
rubber covered roller
Rythmodan
semistrong extremum
sergey brin
shell roller
space trajectory
static unstability
steam disengaging surface
strange bedfellows
subconference
swivel-vice
syndactylous foot
take it to the next level
tarsocheiloplasty
terrestrial water
theory of reliability
Todendorf
track while scan program
trade safeguarding act
transforming principle
transverse fornix
ultrasonic sealing
wage rate paid
waste chemical reagent
whole-house
widening conversion
worst-case complexity
writing gun