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
administrative services division
adversarily
anthropophobics
anticlastogenesis
Aphelenchoides oryzae Yokoo
arkansas kingbirds
arthropod-borne infection
ball scale
barbes
batblade
black stain
boostin'
bottom centrefired pit
catch limit
chaffees
chirt
Chonchi
come into line
culvert wing wall
damosels
diagnostic capabilities
diagonal offsetting
domestic family
dream tickets
Eble type
EMS (electronic management system)
expectation neurosis
express admiration for
ferry toll
forest-working through government-officers
four-runs
four-wire three-phase alternating current system
fourth pinion
fraternal
full capacity tap
gob of glass
hauling-engine
Hebridean gneiss
heterodimerization
hydrops abdominis
hypercontractile
ibda-cs
IFK
involute-spline broach
isotope dilution method
key encoder
Kishinyov
land-wind
laplace control
leaf-worm
Lokanda
Lucy-le-Bois
machinery bronze
magic-N nucleus
meningomyocele
mobile television unit
momentum transfer cross section
Moselsürsch
mrcs
multicolor hologrammetry
multinheel
multiple nucleation
naked flame
Nocardia coeliaca
noncommercial enterprise
normative philosophies of education
oljato
overall consumer price index
palaeontological correlation
pay it forward
pcd
pelargonaldehyde
Pg Up
phosphoric acid carrier
plasma pinch accelerator
Prasius
preproduction model
quahaugs
rated chamber pressure
ready queue
realter
running liquid culture experiment
saddle oxford
semicomputer
several-layer solenoid
smutted
Sonodynator
sphygmomanometry
spring-loaded idling valve
standard figure
stellar spectrum
still hunts
supreme court
take a fix on
Tavsancil
time deposit account
traditional costing
unpertinent
unshuttering
urinalyses
vitamine S
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