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


英语课

 Rescue workers are continuing their frantic 1 search for more survivors 2 from Turkey's devastating 3 earthquake. But as time goes on, they are losing hope of pulling any more people alive from the rubble 4. Thousands of people spent another freezing night sleeping out in the open. Military aircraft have been dropping emergency supplies into the area. 


 
The whistle-blower website WikiLeaks is running out of money. It's had to temporarily suspend publishing documents because of the funding crisis. WikiLeaks founder 5 Julian Assange says restrictions 6 by US-based financial companies have starved the website of nearly all of its revenue.
 
Rupert Murdoch's former right hand man has defended his claims that phone hacking 7 at the News of the World was restricted to a single reporter. Les Hinton was making another appearance before the British parliamentary committee investigating the scandal. Mr Hinton was forced to quit as head of Dow Jones and publisher of the Wall Street Journal over the scandal. 
 
Libya's interim 8 government has bowed to international pressure and ordered an inquiry 9 into the death of Muammar Gaddafi. They've also stopped the public display of the former dictator's body in Misurata. And Human Rights Watch says it has evidence that more than 50 of Colonel Gaddafi's supporters were executed at a hotel in the city of Sirte. 
 
And the Queen is going to be spending a quieter day in Canberra today after yesterday's whirlwind visit to Brisbane. The Queen and Prince Philip will visit the Australian War Memorial this morning.

1 frantic
adj.狂乱的,错乱的,激昂的
  • I've had a frantic rush to get my work done.我急急忙忙地赶完工作。
  • He made frantic dash for the departing train.他发疯似地冲向正开出的火车。
2 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
3 devastating
adj.毁灭性的,令人震惊的,强有力的
  • It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
  • Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。
4 rubble
n.(一堆)碎石,瓦砾
  • After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后,花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
  • After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
5 Founder
n.创始者,缔造者
  • He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
  • According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说,罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。
6 restrictions
约束( restriction的名词复数 ); 管制; 制约因素; 带限制性的条件(或规则)
  • I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
  • a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制
7 hacking
n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动
  • The patient with emphysema is hacking all day. 这个肺气肿病人整天不断地干咳。
  • We undertook the task of hacking our way through the jungle. 我们负责在丛林中开路。
8 interim
adj.暂时的,临时的;n.间歇,过渡期间
  • The government is taking interim measures to help those in immediate need.政府正在采取临时措施帮助那些有立即需要的人。
  • It may turn out to be an interim technology.这可能只是个过渡技术。
9 inquiry
n.打听,询问,调查,查问
  • Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
  • The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。
学英语单词
air-bag support
Akitio
alpha and beta naphthlamine
asgrown crystal
baclofen
Basque language
Bayel
cast preform
catodic etching
causticized ash
cavitands
clanship
Clematis mandshurica
consubstantialism
Contraction Risk
Cryptophagidae
denver-baseds
dissolved oxygen analyzer for seawater
divestable
doal
Duqi Wan
Dzhuglymskiy Khrebet
El Potrero de Tenavac
environmental protection agency progress report
epizoids
ethno-cultural
Evart
fang chih ku wu
fantin-latour
field emission cathode
flared trousers
FM radio
glycidyl amine resin
half wave voltage doubler
heat radiation pyrometer
herringbone work
hetero-ovular twins
hot laboratory
hyper aggressive
Id al-Adha
immobilize waste
in case that
in the dark
inter-row weeder
International Federation for European Law
kewer
kidney worm
kinoshitalite
konares
laboratory size extruder
manufacturing information control system
medullary trigeminal tractotomy
micro-movement control system
money-lender
multilayeredness
muzorewas
neckars
onware
out-milling
outdoor training
Outfolding
Parafrenal
passive testing
photomosaic
phyllosticta amorphophalli
Physalis alkekengi L. var. franchetii Makino
pigeon's milk
polygraphy
Potentilla anserina
pseudotype
publish the banns
purge cock
Qatari
repsols
restrictionism
say what
SCOPELOSAURIDAE
sea bat
semi-portal bridge crane
short sellers
Sirault
slum area
spastic vasoconstrictive crisis
speed of rolls
split-ticket
st. sebastian c.
straley
supply train
the weft
tickle a person pink
Tondibi
tractus tegmentalis centralis
triazolobenzodiazepine
Uam-ri
ultimate bearing moment
unstathelfast
uranianism
Venetlin
vladimirov
Warhol
wet tissue
wrap around type solar cell