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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additive correction
air brake switch
ampholite
anaphase(strasburger 1884)
anristics
battle tracer
belosynapsis ciliata
black-marketeerings
blanket method
bolaven
Brachytrichia
branchiomere
Brassica rapa chinensis
business-jet
C9 index
cementing stage collar
Chauka R.
chromatic aberration
corner route
corrugated cooler
crisis center
delight oneself with
dereification
disrespecting
downspout basket strainer
dreadless
duty classification of a relay
electrical circuits
eletromagnetic type vibrometer
Eleutherococcus simonii
end of task exit routine
fasting cure
forced rossby wave
frappucino
got by
grooving of roll
had a shy at
hocs
interex
jacquin
jamaicine
knife head
laeotropic
lignified fiber
limitours
LS cell
lydneys
measurement of time
message authentication code
mimosa
modulus of fineness
multiplethread
narrow into
no-tolerance
nonlinear transmittance
Novopokrovka
oblique axis mount
out-strategize
parakeratotic cell
parapenaeopsis cornuta
parure
peridontitis
phrenziedly
pillarizes
plow base
podosome
poeciloblast
presence-chamber
process of decision-making
pseudonoise
pummelled
radially symmetric filtering
radiator flush
radio personnel
ratio of compression
revolution of polar to Cartesian
SB-273
scraggly
second bit
semi-rep
sending modem
Sireno
smokeeasy
spheroidal pulse ionization chamber
spondylolisthesis
spongotrochus glacialis
stainless steel welding electrode
Stark effect
syenoide
syllabic script
talk cold turkey
the middle of the night
trucking operation
undistortion
unsystematic measurement errors
Valesian
vandenbergh
volume of vessel traffic
water gauge(gage)
winfrith
zone-purified metal
Zuidlaardermeer