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。
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Actinosporea
affiliation needs
ageing peocess
air floated
allow substitutions
alternating current arc welder
Aningué, L.
annual output per vehicle
ANSI
ant-lion
antimonious acid
approved plan
Arvayheer
Bagar
bandar-e khomeyni
bare aluminium stranded wire
batleys
bayesian natural conjugate prior density
being able to
bleezing
breaking twist
Captain Cooker
capture ratio
cerebral granule cell
Chardin
chirundina streetsi
cholelitholysis
commonalerting protocol
concrete pouring
coperose
cutterbar assembly
d.d
deboshments
destination-transport-address
dip one's hand into one's purse
dismight
dust cloths
echoencephalography
efficiency effect
epigastrocele
event driven procedure
family carcharhinidaes
fault diagnostic test
female intersex
field glassess
fire-hot
free nuclear stage
group modem
guaranteed wage plan
hydraulic pressure engine room
in quotes
inobediency
intervening transformer
ipf carrier
Jincheon-gun
kapetanovic
kick-start
kieselgalmei (hemlmorphite)
lamellated bone
loughead
low-oil
mahobiose
management by crisis
Meltzer's treatment
metal carbyne
Mount Kanchenjunga
multishirks
nanofriction
negative power coefficient
newsworthier
Neyraudia
normal supply
orchidean
ovicaprid
p-system
phthaloylsulfacetamide
prelife
protochordates
quiescent prominence
Rhododendron rivulare
serpentines
short-wave transmitting station
shotty breast
singers' nodule
smilaxes
soil shredder
sport-related
stuntfest
tandem center
Ternstroemia biangulipes
thoracoschisis
Ti plasmid
tiebreak
triphosadenine
up to one's ears in
variable-speed engine
vergennes
warm tone paper
winter North Atlantic load line
xanthoma multiplexes
xenylic
xylota flavipes