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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 As Michael just mentioned, trade and human rights have dominated Julia Gillard’s talks with China’s Premier 1 Wen Jiabao. The Prime Minister raised the detention 2 of Australian businessmen Stern Hu and Matthew Ng. She expressed concerns about a recent crackdown on human rights in China. Ms Gillard was also keen to push along negotiations 3 for a free trade agreement between the two countries. 


 
A UN report has found that both sides in Sri Lanka’s civil war might be guilty of war crimes. The UN says heavy shelling by the Sri Lankan government may have killed tens of thousands of civilians 4. It also accuses the Tamil Tigers of using civilians as human shields. 
 
Britain and the US are considering sanctions against Syria in an effort to stop the violence there. France and Italy are also calling for international action. And there’ve been fresh reports of violence in the city of Deraa where the government has sent in the army to quash those protests. 
 
The Federal Government is struggling to regain 5 control at the nation’s detention centres. Another rooftop protest has now begun--this time at the Christmas Island Detention Centre. And there are similar protests at Villawood and Curtin. It also emerged an asylum 6 seeker at Villawood has been assaulted by fellow inmates 7
 
And 5,000 uniformed and undercover police have been assigned to the royal wedding in one of Britain’s biggest ever security operations. The country has lifted its threat level to “severe” and that’s the second highest on the five-point scale. Police have also appealed to the public to be their eyes and their ears at the big event.

1 premier
adj.首要的;n.总理,首相
  • The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
  • He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。
2 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。
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 civilians
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
5 regain
vt.重新获得,收复,恢复
  • He is making a bid to regain his World No.1 ranking.他正为重登世界排名第一位而努力。
  • The government is desperate to regain credibility with the public.政府急于重新获取公众的信任。
6 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。
7 inmates
n.囚犯( inmate的名词复数 )
  • One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
'Aïn Beïda
allyl mercury iodide
armament
atomic action
attribute set
bee-eater
Carex deqinensis
chemical equilibrium of marine chemistry
Cherio, Fiume
Chong-Ren impairment
countercurrent agitation
Dasada
data subject
death warrants
Dermanyssus
digital-to-voice translator
digitizing error
diversis
Draw the shortest straw
dsm-iv
enigmatical canon
eyes of the rigging
fig-wart
first conditional
full-ripe stage
grab bucket dredger
Grande Baie
high temperature reservoir
Hirsudin
humanicides
hydraulic stowing
ifor
Illampu
inboard outboard
incidental-music
individual drawing system
inetol
integral of generalized momentum
Itanhauã, R.
kahill
Kyrbana
Laing, R(onald) D(avid)
laser deflection technique
Lenham
lens-clip
let-in
light boom
lumisterin
maasen
mainline section
MammotomeProduct
metaclase
missourite
monosex fish culture
Moore's syndrome
n-fold fuzzy grammar
narcotised
narrow-souled
nehushtan
nonconscientious
nonhepatic
normal operating transient
ombuds
one-half divergence
Ouallene
panelize
partializes
passive defence
pidonia bivittata
print report
pudendal cleavages
qualia
rackes
receiver relay
regulating unit
restraint stress
sausage flour
secondary myocardosis
separate feed
social distraction
talaromyces emersonii
taper ring-gauge
tarsiger cyanurus cyanurus
There are more ways than to skin a cat.
throughscore
titanium(iii) nitrate
totally enclosed ventilated motor
transmeridian
tubercula ossis navicularis
tww
urreligion
usdoc
vagisness
Vamizi, I.
vanishing man concept
wall growth effect
Welkenraedt
whole body radiation meter
xylates
yeagers