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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Protesters have gathered in Melbourne to rally against a controversial child beauty pageant 1. Girls as young as two months old took part in the US-run show. Organisers say the participants are judged on facial beauty, overall appearance, personality and talent. Similar events in the US have been seeing participants using wigs 2, false teeth and spray tan. Those involved say it's harmless fun, but protesters believe age restrictions 3 should be placed on the event.


Angelina Jolie has been awarded "The Heart of Sarajevo” at film festival in the Bosnian capital. The award recognises not only Jolie's film success but her active engagement in humanitarian 4 issues. In particular, festival organisers recognise Jolie's efforts to bring to the attention the plight 5 of refugees from the Bosnian War. The actor visited the country several times last year as a UNHCR ambassador.


And the world's first museum dedicated 6 to the former “Governator” Arnold Schwarzenegger has opened in his birthplace in southern Austria. Arnie didn't attend yesterday's opening which was timed to coincide with his 64th birthday. Visitors gathered for a first look at the two-storey light yellow house restored to look as it did when Schwarzenegger first came into the world in 1947.



1 pageant
n.壮观的游行;露天历史剧
  • Our pageant represented scenes from history.我们的露天历史剧上演一幕幕的历史事件。
  • The inauguration ceremony of the new President was a splendid pageant.新主席的就职典礼的开始是极其壮观的。
2 wigs
n.假发,法官帽( wig的名词复数 )
  • They say that wigs will be coming in again this year. 据说今年又要流行戴假发了。 来自辞典例句
  • Frank, we needed more wigs than we thought, and we have to do some advertising. 弗兰克,因为我们需要更多的假发,而且我们还要做点广告。 来自电影对白
3 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
4 humanitarian
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者
  • She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业,并作了很大的贡献。
  • The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
5 plight
n.困境,境况,誓约,艰难;vt.宣誓,保证,约定
  • The leader was much concerned over the plight of the refugees.那位领袖对难民的困境很担忧。
  • She was in a most helpless plight.她真不知如何是好。
6 dedicated
adj.一心一意的;献身的;热诚的
  • He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他献身于教育事业。
  • His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。
学英语单词
aborted connection
acute bee paralysis
after lengths
Agathis australis
amino acid REN ligase
amount of growing stock
ARSR
auditor's fee
back-to-back coupling
banked relay
barrier grid mosaic
bellboys
billing service
bockstoce
Butler, Smedley Darlington
chair umpire
chloro-methyl ether
coal-heated brooder
coffeinum natrio-benzoicum
Cole Porter
conculcates
congreganist
creditress
cutizone
deflecting force of earth rotation
dicranopselaphus nantai
diploneis debyi
Dolichandrone
domenicas
double offset
dramatises
drouin
economic world
endogenous depressions
engraved stem thermometer
epicrates monensis
epiphyte
extreme-pressure lubrication
far infrared imagery
fence season
field emission energy analyzer
Firoz Shah, Battle of
first pass own coding sorting
furoflavone
Gentio do Ouro
gingelly
gross lifting load
incitement and attempt to commit conspiracy
jasperized
leuco- (leuc-)
lichen substance
marine communications and transportation industry
mesocoelia
MIIC
montiero
morphrodite
Mossat
nit
non-safety start-up feedwater system
nonshared environmental influence
oncotrephin
one-hundred-percenter
ornithine decarboxylase
over development
Perioeci
plectobasidial
princocks
radar echo box
reaming extractor
reives
remreed relay
Revillo
revocable letter of credit
roof failure
rope knife
sailling day
Saint Peter's wreath
sbe
self-masteries
semicirques
setting up piece
shooting-galleries
shortsyne
single unit diesel locomotive
soft sarcoma
st. peters
steel-bar bender
stoble
strip-downs
surface depletion layer
surveying altimeter
tanganil
tapotement
tetragnatha nepiformis
traditional popular prescription
travertine sinter
two cylinder test results
ultra-high speed transient wave form analyzer
underenforcement
user to user
yeo-ho
Yǒnp'o