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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 A Russian plane carrying one of the country's top ice hockey teams has crashed on takeoff, killing 1 43 people. The plane was leaving the city of Yaroslavl in western Russia when it clipped a radio mast. The team included several foreign players and a Canadian coach. Only two people on board survived, and they sustained critical injuries. 


 
India's capital New Delhi is on high alert after a deadly terrorist bomb attack. At least 11 people died in the blast outside the high court and more than 60 have been injured. Police say the bomb was hidden in a case. A militant 2 group affiliated 3 to al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the attack. 
 
Qantas boss Alan Joyce has had his salary package increased to just over 5 million dollars and the pilot union is outraged 4. Mr. Joyce has been given just over 2 million dollars worth of shares on top of his 3 million dollar salary. The pilot union says that is hypocritical when the airline is planning to shed 1,000 jobs. 
 
British police have made another arrest as part of their investigation 5 into the phone hacking 6 scandal. Sports journalist Raoul Simons is suspected of conspiring 7 to intercept 8 voice messages. Simons is a former deputy football editor at The Times newspaper. He is the 16 person to be arrested in connection with the scandal. 
 
And Nato has suspended the transfer of prisoners to Afghan-run jails because of allegations of torture. A yet-to-be-published report by the United Nations has accused Afghan authorities of systematically 9 torturing prisoners including beatings, electric shocks and sexual assault.

1 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
2 militant
adj.激进的,好斗的;n.激进分子,斗士
  • Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
  • He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。
3 affiliated
adj. 附属的, 有关连的
  • The hospital is affiliated with the local university. 这家医院附属于当地大学。
  • All affiliated members can vote. 所有隶属成员都有投票权。
4 outraged
a.震惊的,义愤填膺的
  • Members of Parliament were outraged by the news of the assassination. 议会议员们被这暗杀的消息激怒了。
  • He was outraged by their behavior. 他们的行为使他感到愤慨。
5 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
6 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。
7 conspiring
密谋( conspire的现在分词 ); 搞阴谋; (事件等)巧合; 共同导致
  • They were accused of conspiring against the king. 他们被指控阴谋反对国王。
  • John Brown and his associates were tried for conspiring to overthrow the slave states. 约翰·布朗和他的合伙者们由于密谋推翻实行奴隶制度的美国各州而被审讯。
8 intercept
vt.拦截,截住,截击
  • His letter was intercepted by the Secret Service.他的信被特工处截获了。
  • Gunmen intercepted him on his way to the airport.持枪歹徒在他去机场的路上截击了他。
9 systematically
adv.有系统地
  • This government has systematically run down public services since it took office.这一屆政府自上台以来系统地削减了公共服务。
  • The rainforest is being systematically destroyed.雨林正被系统地毀灭。
学英语单词
actinobacillus seminis
al-tariq
ancell
Angulocaste
Arizola
bulb sealing machine
buoy power supply
c.j
caryophyllaceaes
catch someone in the act
centrifugalized milk
chefe
Cloyes
community
composite power source
crooked alignment
CSMA/CD network
cubick
death warmed up
Desargues graphs
Djed
EC mode
emergency braking electrovalve
Euonymus fortunei
Faraday cages
fashioning flat knitting machine
fibrino
flood plain bench
fluid exudation
fruit-gardens
fusarium oxysporum momordicae
gas-solid interface
genus paradoxuruss
genus viverriculas
gillamoors
goodeniaceous
heaven knows
highest ambient temperature
horon (turkey)
horse of a different colour
ibaa
indeflexible
ink us
introducement
irfu
Ismā'īlīyah, Tur'at al
juvenilised
Lehman Formula
light non-ferrous metal
macrolide
maximum pumping distance
mean'st
mica tube
Mikha Tskhakaya
mooded
morten
multiple edge
National Geographic Society
neuropsychophysiological
nevus cavernosus
offshore pipeline
Orhangazi
paradimethylaminoazobenzene
part manufacturing
permeations
perside
prioritisations
purgatol
rabbit heart
rabi method
ranger vest
scoda
sequential test of statistical hypotheses
sexidigital
SHBD
shermen
shipmen
shock absorption
sieghart
sliderules
sound-insulating anteroom
soup-to-nuts
spacing sleeve
St-Germain-des-Fossés
stonewares
straight cutting
sumdel
suspended call position
tape-path center line
task orientation
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu
temerities
terrordome
testbed
total investment cost
trazitiline
twin-heater system
ultra portable laptop
unseptnilium
us oncology
volitation
x-x