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


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 Queen Elizabeth will begin her Australian visit this morning with a private audience - with the Governor General Quentin Bryce. The Queen and Prince Philip arrived in Canberra late yesterday. They were greeted by hundreds of local schoolchildren. The royal couple will also tour Canberra's Floriade flower show this morning.


 
The Commonwealth 1 Ombudsman Allan Asher is set to announce his resignation. He's been under intense pressure since admitting he wrote questions for a Greens senator to ask him at a senate committee back in May. Fairfax newspaper is reporting this morning the Federal Government has made it very clear it has lost confidence in him. Mr Asher apologised on Monday to a senate committee for his behaviour.
 
There have been violent clashes between police and protesters in Athens. Some protesters threw petrol bombs and stones at police, who responded with tear gas. Several youths have been arrested. Greece has been paralysed by a 48-hour general strike against the government's austerity measures.
 
Floodwaters have breached 2 barriers protecting Bangkok. Residents in seven districts in the outer north and east of the city are being warned to prepare for flooding. People are being told to be prepared to evacuate 3. The Thai government is assuring residents that by the weekend that Bangkok would be safe from flooding.
 
And police in the US state of Ohio have shot and killed dozens of wild animals that escaped from a private zoo. The animals included bears, tigers and lions. Police believe the zoo's owner set the animals free before shooting himself dead.

1 commonwealth
n.共和国,联邦,共同体
  • He is the chairman of the commonwealth of artists.他是艺术家协会的主席。
  • Most of the members of the Commonwealth are nonwhite.英联邦的许多成员国不是白人国家。
2 breached
攻破( breach的现在分词 ); 破坏,违反
  • These commitments have already been breached. 这些承诺已遭背弃。
  • Our tanks have breached the enemy defences. 我方坦克车突破了敌人的防线。
3 evacuate
v.遣送;搬空;抽出;排泄;大(小)便
  • We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵!
  • They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
学英语单词
acronic
alternating current propulsion
aluminium dihydrogen phosphate
applied factory burden
as common as the hedge
atlacomulco
attaintment
authorized capital
bead condensation
Bondil
breached
bushbash
cacalias
calcareous cement
catastrophists
centrifugal potential energy
chemical mediator
civic right
clear hawse pipe
complaint management
consistentwiths
copybook
decidedness
declutters
Donghai Coastal Current
Donnemarie-Dontilly
electronic decelerometer
erizepine
errite
Estonian Sign Language
exchange money
family disruption
fluoroethylene resin
free of particular average English conditions
galactic cosmic radiation
gastrocolic reflex
glow lamps
Gualeguay
haliotis rufescens
herd into
hexa-net
hinghman
Houlka
intermediate spinning frame
investment center
lake st. clairs
latticed dune
leggedness
life time of energy level
lisk
maslows
memory management fault
Michaelmas
Milanaise
millepora dichotoma
milli-mass-unit
multiple address computer
Myurocloda
nightspot
nosogeography
orifice flow
owners
paradoxical pupil phenomenon
percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy
Pop Idol
prehension (of an animal)hunt for food
Prirechensk
prostatoxin
receptor protein
remote broadcast
renie
rosy view
rotary coordinate system
self-discharging bucket
send control procedure
shared read-only system residence disk
shear rate thixotropy
silodosin
skip out on
slab-column structure
solita
soogee
standard change gear
statement of financial operations
stef
suborder alcyonaceas
support bearing
swineherder
tooth-shell
trichinelloses
tricholomoid
tunnel entrance brilliance
vad-
variable speech control
very large crude-oil carrier
vulcanizing apparatus
water-extractable acid of soil
windthorne
work cloths
work-session-initiation processing level
writ of replevin
yruled