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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 The United Nations is warning of a possible resurgence 1 of the deadly bird flu virus. It's also warning a mutant strain of the virus that's resistant 2 to vaccines 3 could be spreading in Asia. It says it's appeared in Vietnam and China and now threatens other countries in the region such as Thailand, Malaysia and Cambodia. 


 
The aftermath of Hurricane Irene is still being felt along the east coast of the United States. The death toll 4 has now reached at least 32 people. Large parts of the northeast are still underwater and millions of people are still without power. Most of the deaths were caused by falling trees, road accidents, or people being swept away by the floodwaters. 
 
At least 23 people have died in mudslides in eastern Uganda. The slides were triggered by unseasonably heavy rain near the border with Kenya. The Red Cross says the mud engulfed 5 homes and buried entire families. Fifteen bodies were pulled from the rubble 6 in one village alone. Recent heavy rain has also caused flooding and displaced hundreds of people in the region.
 
Victoria's Parliament is rushing through tough new dog laws. It's all part of the State Government's crackdown on dangerous dogs after a four-year-old girl was mauled to death earlier this month. The new laws would give councils the power to destroy unregistered dogs that'd be deemed to be dangerous. 
 
And ABC chopper pilot Gary Ticehurst will be remembered at a memorial service in Sydney today. He died along with journalist Paul Lockyer and cameraman John Bean when their helicopter crashed at Lake Eyre in South Australia 12 days ago. Memorial services have already been held for the other two men.

1 resurgence
n.再起,复活,再现
  • A resurgence of his grief swept over Nim.悲痛又涌上了尼姆的心头。
  • Police say drugs traffickers are behind the resurgence of violence.警方说毒贩是暴力活动重新抬头的罪魁祸首。
2 resistant
adj.(to)抵抗的,有抵抗力的
  • Many pests are resistant to the insecticide.许多害虫对这种杀虫剂有抵抗力。
  • They imposed their government by force on the resistant population.他们以武力把自己的统治强加在持反抗态度的人民头上。
3 vaccines
疫苗,痘苗( vaccine的名词复数 )
  • His team are at the forefront of scientific research into vaccines. 他的小组处于疫苗科研的最前沿。
  • The vaccines were kept cool in refrigerators. 疫苗放在冰箱中冷藏。
4 toll
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
5 engulfed
v.吞没,包住( engulf的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He was engulfed by a crowd of reporters. 他被一群记者团团围住。
  • The little boat was engulfed by the waves. 小船被波浪吞没了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 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。
学英语单词
2-propanone
a man of science
Alexishafen
anticrustator
aortic atresia
apartheidized
archebacteria
baby fund
basic tier
Batoshevo
bevona
big-occasion
binotonous
blood-relatives
borko
browzy
bumblers
carpenter's ink box
catahoula l.
cold noodles
contourings
dancing pulley
deiodinates
desertings
detention ponds
digital survey fathometer
Dippel's oil
end of character
erbakan
estheticise
examen
f-bomb
Far East Freight Conference
Far Eastern Relief Fund
file dust
finesko
flopover circuit
fourball
frictiongear
functional address
fundamental lattice absorption
Geertruidenberg
genus eustomas
genus Todea
giobertite
hadron mass model
heavd duty
high speed storage loading
hornfuls
hybrid functional authority positions
integrative psychiatry
intervarietal grafting
ivdu
koen
lefthand engine
likeways
longable
longitudinal gradient
mah-jong
measurement device of spray distribution
mechanical vibration generator system
mistressing
mode address
narrow-band frequency response
news peg
nilotoxin
nit-picker
not have a penny to one's name
of two minds
ostending
out-of pocket payment
parthenocarpous fruit
partial luminous flux
paskevich
photoconductor tube
pnpn transwitch
punicaceaes
put heads together
quarantined
rare noble metal
research funding
rigid structure measure
rousselle
scalar-vector effect
sentence
sequel of noma
Serrasalmus
shamsul
Sharpey's fibres
snugli
special system
strip slitting machine
taking ten
taxon.
tenny
trachyliparite
translator device
trawler
treknobabble
Truth in Lending
well assorted goods
wet split