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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 Thousands of Qantas passengers are facing delays because of a strike by ground staff. They're going to walk off the job for an hour from 8 o'clock this morning. Up to 40 flights are likely to be delayed or cancelled. And in a separate action, engineers in Melbourne are going to strike for an hour from 6 o'clock tonight. 


 
Germany's parliament has given a new beefed-up bailout package the ticket of approval. A large majority of MPs voted in favour of the package which will increase Germany's contribution to the bailout fund by almost $300 billion. Markets in Europe and New York reacted positively 1 to that vote. 
 
China's space programme has taken a great leap forward. It's just launched the first stage of a planned space station. A rocket carrying the experimental module 2 has lifted off from the Gobi desert and China is aiming to have the space station fully 3 operational by 2020. 
 
The Federal Government's promise to return to surplus next year has become even harder. Treasurer 4 Wayne Swan is going to release updated budget figures this morning. And they are expected to show that forecast revenues are now down $2 billion for the last financial year. The Government has forecast the global financial crisis will cost it $130 billion in revenue in the five years from 2008. 
 
And Libya's rebels say they've captured Muammar Gaddafi's spokesman Moussa Ibrahim near the city of Sirte. The rebels have also taken control of the city's airport after weeks of fighting.

1 positively
adv.明确地,断然,坚决地;实在,确实
  • She was positively glowing with happiness.她满脸幸福。
  • The weather was positively poisonous.这天气着实讨厌。
2 module
n.组件,模块,模件;(航天器的)舱
  • The centre module displays traffic guidance information.中央模块显示交通引导信息。
  • Two large tanks in the service module held liquid oxygen.服务舱的两个大气瓶中装有液态氧。
3 fully
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
4 treasurer
n.司库,财务主管
  • Mr. Smith was succeeded by Mrs.Jones as treasurer.琼斯夫人继史密斯先生任会计。
  • The treasurer was arrested for trying to manipulate the company's financial records.财务主管由于试图窜改公司财政帐目而被拘留。
学英语单词
abbreviated argument
ability to harden
absorbed manufacturing expense
acid-fast nonphotochromogen
aerial transparency
an Antarctic expedition
Anamniota
aposteme
as-yet-unknowns
badly-designeds
badmouthed
ball socket adjuster
bopeep
C.I.G.S.
cheer
chlodwig
christmas pyramid
chromidium
cobblestone
compound tide
concurrently-shared resource
crushed zone
culpable homicide
cyclophorus formosaensis
daily traffic flow
dame barbara hepworths
desulfurases
developpes
Diemel
EABV
fiducial point
financial-service
fishing basket
floribundas
fourty equivalent unit
front vertex focal distance
fuel lifetime
General Foods Co.
genus cronartiums
global schema
gnawing at
golden clematiss
gotten cracking
grave's
half duty
hannemann
hide sorter
high volume account
homeappliance
homoveratric acid
humanas
husbands
hypabyssally
i-swowen
immunological unresponsiveness
index servo
integrative
inter-bourse
interabangs
joint cummulative distribution function
knob gobblers
Kyamepromazine
land use capability survey
Lutefium
marchia barclayana
mathematical modeling
metromalacia
mishent
movement picture
orthogonality conditions
painted sandgrouse
pallidoidosis
pandurata
pharmacons
pomatuming
profit ratio of paid-in capital
pseudomones sp.
pulsus
QBE
recovered solvent
roller comnveyor
rotation of the Earth
scolopendrium
side-draw
silvertipped
songfully
spallanzani
Still water runs deep
supported type abutment
sync non-linearity
thiomerin
Tukulan
two-liter
undefined
unexpended ammunition
Unified Threat Management
vacuum tube modulator
ventriculus mesencephalicus
waterslides
whatsernames
whrinny
Yalutsangpu River