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
acid soot
ambulacral foot (tubefoot)
ancillary transcription factor
atmospheric diffusion equation
auto-indexing
Barnum and Bailey
big-leaguer
blind lawyers
bubble-gummer
centaxial
chilcoat
cholodinic acid
coal board slide
concave base
coniferyl
corunna (a coruna)
cracked permanent deformation
crash programme
Crista supracondylaris lateralis
cross magnetization
cutoff thermometer
cyanguanidine
daylight loading tank
depository
dodecaphony
Donmox
doubly connected curve
electronic counter measures
endless belt feed
equilibrium density centrifugation
Ercaf
fir wood oil
flexural-tensile strain
Frascati
gear rolling mill
give way to despair
harvesting coconut from the palm
heavy swells
hemitetroxide
ib.
Imirikliy Lahmar
international sea trade
item under consideration
Japanese jawfish
keel drag
Kompong Tralach
L-dihydroxyphenylalamine
Lelija
ligamenta metacarpea interossea
Lilian, Pt.
limited-service bank
lordies
maltitudes
mccreevy
metacentric height of gyrosphere
methodological solipsism
mischty
mobbists
model following control
monestrous
New Waterford
nonjudgmentalism
oil flushing
p-cell
particle number conservation law
phase noise
Pin Risk
pluralists
pneumatic tissue
polyribosome
popedom
pressure-induced dipole
primary alcohols
Prout
ptil-
raggeder
rotator hammer drill
satyrid
separation angle
series filament
series ohmmeter
seubert
siphonic effect
skotogram(scotogram)
SL cable
swantons
sync-in pulse
theory of dependency
Thermoses
tin tetrachloride
tinea corporiss
toernebohmite
tower hopper
trestle cable
trust liabilities
unfamilial
unsolved
upper marginal dimension
Villejuif
war-gamer
windfallen
York boat