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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 The United Nations is pulling its staff out of Tripoli. Angry mobs have been attacking foreign embassies after reports a NATO air strike killed Colonel Gaddafi’s youngest son and three of the leader’s grandchildren. The mob burnt Britain’s embassy to the ground. Britain retaliated 1 by expelling Libya’s ambassador. 


 
Police in Melbourne have shot dead a man they say was threatening them with a knife. Two police officers approached two men in St Kilda after an earlier stabbing in a hotel. Police say they shot one of the men after he lunged at them with a knife. The man died at the scene. 
 
Up to one million people have packed St Peter’s Square for the beatification of the late Pope John Paul II. The ceremony is the final step before the Pope is declared a saint. Among the crowd was the French nun 2 who said she was cured of Parkinson’s Disease after praying to John Paul. 
 
Sony’s preparing to resume some services on its PlayStation Network. The company has apologised for the security breach 3 that led to users’ personal details being stolen. Sony says it’s now improved its security system to prevent another breach. 
 
And Channel Nine presenter 4 Karl Stefanovic has won the Gold Logie, nudging out favourite Rebecca Gibney. The ABC picked up five of the ten peer judged awards including most outstanding actor for Richard Roxburgh in the drama series Rake. Sarah Ferguson won most outstanding public affairs report for her Four Corners investigation 5 Smugglers Paradise. Veteran political journalist Laurie Oakes was inducted into the Hall of Fame.

1 retaliated
v.报复,反击( retaliate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • When he once teased her for her inexperience, she retaliated. 有一次,他讥讽她没有经验,她便反唇相讥。 来自辞典例句
  • The terrorists retaliated by killing three policemen. 恐怖分子以杀死三名警察相报复。 来自辞典例句
2 nun
n.修女,尼姑
  • I can't believe that the famous singer has become a nun.我无法相信那个著名的歌星已做了修女。
  • She shaved her head and became a nun.她削发为尼。
3 breach
n.违反,不履行;破裂;vt.冲破,攻破
  • We won't have any breach of discipline.我们不允许任何破坏纪律的现象。
  • He was sued for breach of contract.他因不履行合同而被起诉。
4 presenter
n.(电视、广播的)主持人,赠与者
  • Most people think being a television presenter is exciting.很多人认为当电视节目主持人是一件刺激的事情。
  • The programme dispensed with its most popular presenter.这个节目最受欢迎的主持人被换掉了。
5 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
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add-ins available
allowable limit of vibration to human body
amay
bacteroides nodosus
biastigmatism
bishopries
book confirnation
Briggsia pinfaensis
bubble transfer switch
calculating scale
card spider
centerspread
cops her
corkscrew flowers
decension
denize
Distributed Network System
educational television
electronic magnification
erosion ramp
eustatic chart
externally operable part
ferrophytin
finished pieces
floors-to-ceiling
foldbelt
foot lifter
foot oil
form-fitting
Fort Hertz
generalized solution of Lagrange
genus Polyergus
girder framing into column
Goldscheider's test
grand inquest
hadite
hazees
homalonotids
in-kind subsidy
income budget
intermuscular bone
justitie
kinematic(al) parameter
kurons
lamel cathode
lamina of cricoid cartilage
lanternslide
largy
levien
licensing power
line-of-sight geometry
loading/unloading lot
maintenability
man-hour requirement
marbled cats
marine wiring accessoroies
mezzotint
miarolitic texture
morphotyping
mountains-and-waters painting
multiple strand rope
Nageotte cells
neatness
Neckereae
needfully
nodal processing delay
out of consideration for
pohlia wahlenbergii
pole-lathe
poynette
Primula cawdoriana
Préchacq-les-Bains
rate of transverse motion
red bed karst
relocation of track
resonance zone
return to work
Richter motor
rolling meadows
Saint Francis River
Saxonical
searching behavio(u)r
sending-end transformer
shoujo ai
singing
slight torn grain
sopras
stairway and passage way arrangement
suborder homopteras
Surigao del Sur, Prov.of
template gage
the politburo
the unknown
thread class
trade safe-guarding act
tumblers
ultrareliable modular computer
volume change
wefty
wide boys
working paper review
woz ere