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 young Melbourne girl has died and two others are in hospital after a dog attack last night. The four-year-old was playing with her cousin at her St Albans home when they were attacked by a neighbour's dog. The little girl died at the scene. The dog was captured and is likely to be destroyed.


Police searching bushland for the remains 1 of Queensland schoolboy Daniel Morcombe have found a shoe they believe may belong to the missing teenager. It was discovered yesterday afternoon in the main area they'd been searching for for several days. It's now being scientifically tested.


The Australian Medical Association president Steve Hambleton is warning locking up asylum 2 seekers is inherently harmful to their physical and mental health. He says it's an ethical 3 and public health issue and is urging politicians to stop mandatory 4 detention 5.


New Zealand's wayward emperor penguin 6 will be heading back to the his Antarctic home in style. A New Zealand's scientific research ship will drop him off during its next expedition there. The penguin dubbed 7 Happy Feet has become an Internet celebrity 8 since he was found near death on a New Zealand beach in June. He's been recovering in Wellington Zoo and is now well enough to be set free.


And Australian rock group Skyhooks album, Living in the 70s has been put on the National Film and Sound Archive's historic register. Each year, 10 recordings 9 are added to the Sounds of Australia list. The maiden 10 speeches of the first women elected to Federal Parliament and the 1952 Melbourne Cup--a race call, were also selected.



1 remains
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
2 asylum
n.避难所,庇护所,避难
  • The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
  • Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。
3 ethical
adj.伦理的,道德的,合乎道德的
  • It is necessary to get the youth to have a high ethical concept.必须使青年具有高度的道德观念。
  • It was a debate which aroused fervent ethical arguments.那是一场引发强烈的伦理道德争论的辩论。
4 mandatory
adj.命令的;强制的;义务的;n.受托者
  • It's mandatory to pay taxes.缴税是义务性的。
  • There is no mandatory paid annual leave in the U.S.美国没有强制带薪年假。
5 detention
n.滞留,停留;拘留,扣留;(教育)留下
  • He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
  • He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。
6 penguin
n.企鹅
  • The penguin is a flightless bird.企鹅是一种不会飞的鸟。
  • He walked with an awkward gait like a penguin.他走路的步子难看得就像企鹅。
7 dubbed
v.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 );把…称为;配音;复制
  • Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
  • Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的? 来自《简明英汉词典》
8 celebrity
n.名人,名流;著名,名声,名望
  • Tom found himself something of a celebrity. 汤姆意识到自己已小有名气了。
  • He haunted famous men, hoping to get celebrity for himself. 他常和名人在一起, 希望借此使自己获得名气。
9 recordings
n.记录( recording的名词复数 );录音;录像;唱片
  • a boxed set of original recordings 一套盒装原声录音带
  • old jazz recordings reissued on CD 以激光唱片重新发行的老爵士乐
10 maiden
n.少女,处女;adj.未婚的,纯洁的,无经验的
  • The prince fell in love with a fair young maiden.王子爱上了一位年轻美丽的少女。
  • The aircraft makes its maiden flight tomorrow.这架飞机明天首航。
学英语单词
Acanthocoras
addressed store
adjusting idler wheel
aftergrowth
avoidable fixed cost
bargained for
Bothrops jararaca
butyl stearate
caipira
carry-over point
Chondrobranchii
chromatogram homogeneity
closed network model
coccidioidosis
Colmor
compost bacteria
contact wear
crank shaft bearing
dearomatising
decology
deficiency of stomach yin
desmosome
dynacords
eigen-value
Ektyl
farm production control technique
flattenedregion
fleabites
gaillardcut
gelatin paper
goods of the contract description
great land
greisens
helical orbit beta-ray spectrometer
hevery
homileticss
ideographical
Igunga
intack
interfirm network
internal mammary vein
isopotentials
Ladoxaprine
leipzigs
limitededition
liquid application
long nozzle heel nailing machine
longmonts
made demands of
main schedule
mangunel
Maranta arundinacea L.
melanocratic rock
metalloaminopeptidase
military emergency regime
milk loaf
mock standard
mondull
nadb
nick us
nonfat dry milks
nonleprotic
numeri clausi
on full pay
optimal value function
overabundant yin
parliamentary train
paternal acres
periosteophyte
phenological season
pilot laboratory
plecotuss
projection aligner
ram cichlids
reduced state classification
ristomycin
rope-a-dope
rough ... up
SAHRP
sarafino
schadenfreuders
sherpas
side cam
silver-leaved nightshades
slick sth down
sparse-matrix
sub-zero treatment device
telecommunication center
teledium
thornlet
tidal sea
to be at the receiving end
to throttle
Togdheer, Gobolka
total footage
travellest
twin choke
two-dimensional finite element method
unreconciled
us headquarters
variipennis
Yambean