时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2011年


英语课

 More than 60 people have been evacuated 1 from floodwaters in north-west of New South Wales. The Mehi River peaked lower than expected at just over 10 meters overnight. Two hundred properties around Moree, Gunnedah remain isolated 2. Further south, another 1,800 residents have been cut off around the town of Wee Waa.


 
Stay in New South Wales, where police will resume a search at first light for a seven-year-old boy feared drowned near Wagga Wagga. The boy was playing with two friends in the shallows of the Murrumbidgee River when he was swept away by the current.
 
Overseas, and the Arab League has voted to impose sanctions against Syria in response to the continuing violence against anti-government protesters. They include a travel ban on top Syrian officials, a freeze on Syrian government assets and a ban on investments in the country. Nineteen of the league's 22 members voted in favour of the sanctions.
 
Hundreds of people in Pakistan have been setting fire to US flags to protest against the NATO airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. Funerals have been held for the soldiers who were killed when NATO helicopters struck two checkpoints near the Afghan border on the weekend. The incident has heightened already tense relations between Pakistan and the United States.
 
Rescuers are continuing to search for survivors 3 of a bridge collapse 4 on Indonesia's Borneo Island. Four people died and another 19 were injured in the accident. Several cars and a bus plunged 5 into the Mahakam River when the bridge gave away.

1 evacuated
撤退者的
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
2 isolated
adj.与世隔绝的
  • His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
  • Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。
3 survivors
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
4 collapse
vi.累倒;昏倒;倒塌;塌陷
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
5 plunged
v.颠簸( plunge的过去式和过去分词 );暴跌;骤降;突降
  • The train derailed and plunged into the river. 火车脱轨栽进了河里。
  • She lost her balance and plunged 100 feet to her death. 她没有站稳,从100英尺的高处跌下摔死了。
学英语单词
-philous
acute anxious feeling
agidibo
allocated cutting method
aniline cancer
ballcaps
baro-
biliary tract neoplasm
Bouafle
bouki
building-out capacitor
Ch'ǒngch'ǒn-ri
chiffchaffs
concealment and nondisclosure
conetta
construction contract in process
construction supervision
container system
copper-constantan thermocouple
corn steep liquor
crust-hunt
custard pudding
Dienstweiler
disavails
disseminated choroiditis
drilling rigs at sea
Eberthella talavensis
enthroning
environtology
fertilizer the soil
fictitious graticule
fiocchi
foundry chisel
galactographers
gasserectomy instrument set
genus Olfersia
geological timetable
go path
Good Friday
Gothic arch tracer
heat-supply load factor
HHAR
hoffman oscillator
HVLS
improper quadric
incentive marketing
industrialiser
ion image
Jawor
kafkas
kerest
liar('s) dice
local concept
luhaiya (al luhayyah)
materials returned to stockroom
mesulfen
Miltaun
more-over
multiple phase
multiple quantum well detector
neoprene rubber sleeve
nonfundamental mode flow table
oneway clutch
packstones
papilio hermosanus
parachromatopsia
pep pill
phycobillisome
pit field
planenesses
ploridyscrinia
polemicizes
pongol
Porson
Prosostomata
reflex pick-up
regenerative detection tube
revesz
roar at
rubrique
Scarpa's staphyloma
scatter buffet
sea of
selenophysical phenomena
sexualizers
short wave therapy apparatus
Standryl
stannic sulphide
start-up wear
stockscion interaction
stop ... wind
tension plate lock-up
the dawn chorus
thyridium
tippur
Ts'ageri
uniparted
vatos
Virginia rose
vretical centering control
wages and salaries account
white-black