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 report by the Australian Strategic Institute says Indonesia's prisons have become incubators for terrorists. The assessment 1 is based on in-depth interviews conducted with 33 convicted terrorists. The report's author, Dr Carl Ungerer, says some would-be terrorists who would want to bomb Western targets will soon be freed. 


 
The United States has just imposed sanctions on Syria's president and six of his top aides. It's the first time President Bashar al-Assad has been specifically targeted. US President Barack Obama says Syria must stop the violence and begin a transition to democracy. 
 
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen is denying there's any misunderstanding with Malaysia over that asylum 2 seeker deal. The country's home affairs minister has told a local newspaper that Malaysia won't accept any asylum seekers from Australia until that deal is finalised.  But Mr Bowen insists recent arrivals are part of those negotiations 3
 
An inquest into December's asylum seeker boat tragedy off Christmas Island has heard harrowing triple-0 emergency calls from a man on board the doomed 4 boat just minutes before it crashed into rocks. The man became increasingly distressed 5 as he tried to make himself understood. Other passengers, including children, could be heard screaming in the background. 
 
And the Queen has arrived at Dublin Castle for a banquet where she'll deliver the only public speech of her Irish trip. Earlier, she visited Croke Park sports stadium where British troops killed 14 people 91 years ago. The Queen also laid a wreath at Ireland's War Memorial to honour the 50,000 Irish soldiers killed in World War I.

1 assessment
n.评价;评估;对财产的估价,被估定的金额
  • This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
  • What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何?
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 negotiations
协商( negotiation的名词复数 ); 谈判; 完成(难事); 通过
  • negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
  • Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。
4 doomed
命定的
  • The court doomed the accused to a long term of imprisonment. 法庭判处被告长期监禁。
  • A country ruled by an iron hand is doomed to suffer. 被铁腕人物统治的国家定会遭受不幸的。
5 distressed
痛苦的
  • He was too distressed and confused to answer their questions. 他非常苦恼而困惑,无法回答他们的问题。
  • The news of his death distressed us greatly. 他逝世的消息使我们极为悲痛。
学英语单词
abreuvage
acute proliferative miliary tuberculosis of lung
algarovilla
As you brew,so shall you One must drink as one brews .
baseline-plus forecast
beetroot-reds
bio-energetics
bismuthotartrate
Blessed Virgin Mary
brittanys
bud rot
c-note
Carex dailingensis
cauk
civex
clovenfooted
cometabolism
conceptual schema
dance with the wolves
datalinks
de-ionate
defining standard thermometer
diarrhoeal
dichlorodihydrofluorescein
Dicranostigma leptopodum
difficult of
distance to new course
diving beetle
dolinas
double air pump
employment income deduction
engineering procedure
erythrina alkaloid
Fabian system
fault in management or navigation
fault-lines
Feng Youlan
fission chainateial
Frankenstein monster
free economic regime
glissonian cirrhosis
gras
ground fracturing
GT (gas turbine)
hopkins process
internal drift current
keyed to
Kizhinga
kocinski
labor productivity based on quantity
Lau R.
leader-follower game
libcrypt
long-leaved yellow pine
manipulandum
mean tolerance limit
medium wave receiver
Mescalero
Mobutu
motivities
non-electrolyte solution
non-favorable
nuclear models
old age dependency ratio
on pump
optical viewing system
outground
PJAK
Pre-white
process-bound
proplasmacyte
protein extract
protowords
pyrazinobutazone
QST
relenquyssh
restraining excessiveness to acquire harmony
Rougnon-Heberden disease
sanctioned by usage
seal someone's fate
second-order servo
sentence-initials
she-bears
shut-down cooling
sliding door status indication
spises
sub-specialty
subluxated
syndrome of dampness-heat blocking collaterals
T-bar lift
thiounn
three-five compound (iii-v compound)
toad-smoking
tomjohn
treatin
urticarial
vibroacoustic
warmer-upper
water plant aquatic plant
wiech
willem i
yornyman