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
aeger
amatriciana
anne mansfield sullivans
banked radiators
beat the streets
biosy of brain tissue
bluenose
Burkitt('s) tumour
C.-E. mixture
car yard
cash a cheque
chilled wheel
clock circuit
coastwaiter
cognitive limits
conly
cyclic terrace
Damyangho
deep incised wound
diabetic neuropathy
dichroic layer
discretional order
dysoxidative carbonuria
eating shit
echinid
Euro-dollar deposits
fair employment practices
fat mass
five-tire car
fixed brush type motor
foistiness
fold filament
foramina papillaria renis
forcefield
frequency exchanger
frontings
fund management company
funiculuss
gas station
get your teeth into something
have only self to thank
hear, hear
high speed level recorder
incoherent analogy modulation
indapamides
insecure work
integrated tool
janty
jet head
knock test
lanthanum complex
Lib-Labbery
make head or tail of
manganese (ortho)silicate
manure and slurry cleaning equipment
mckeller
measurement of elevation
metrology grating
muskie
n.r.a.d.
nai (iran)
nar-mer
nonrapist
nonsensitized
organic polymer
oropesa sweep
out-citizen
over-the-hill
palaelodid
pan-ice(floe-ice)
peytrel
pin point colony
play the angel
plexus venosus vaginalis
plutonic intrusive facies
Popish Plot
pre-breeding
propedeuse
quadrature amplifier
radial development
response spectrum envelope
separate function
slipper plant
slop up
solar system meteor
split heating
stannic nitride
stationary medium
stripper clip
structural geology and tectonics
substenance
Thabaung
thirty-eighth
tourn
trading dividends
transformation of electricity
uroanthelone
USB ports
Virgilia oroboides
weak-tea
wedges method
welshnut