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 White House now says that Osama Bin 1 Laden 2 was not armed when American soldiers shot him dead. The government’s also backtracked on its claim that Bin Laden’s wife was used as a human shield. And it marks all the contradictions and finger-pointing. The head of the CIA has revealed that America didn’t tell Pakistan about the operation because it feared it might get back to the terrorist leader. 


 
Sony has admitted up to another 25 million of its customers may have had their personal details stolen. The company has found a second security breach 3 in its Online Entertainment network, which it’s also shut down. Hackers 4 had earlier broken into its PlayStation Network and that affected 5 77 million users. Sony shares have dropped four per cent since the crisis began. 
 
Auckland continues to mop up after a tornado 6 swept through the city. At least two people died and dozens of people were injured there. The twister tore through the suburb of Albany, tossing cars aside, uprooting 7 trees and tearing rooves of houses and a shopping centre. 
 
The Federal Government is still struggling to convince voters of the merits of its carbon tax. The latest Newspoll shows 60 per cent of them are opposed to the tax. Just 30 per cent say that they will support it. 
 
And British counter-terrorism police said they’d arrested five men in the north-west of the country. The men were taken into custody 8 near a nuclear power plant. Earlier reports suggested the men were filming the area, but authorities say it doesn’t appear that an attack was imminent 9.

1 bin
n.箱柜;vt.放入箱内;[计算机] DOS文件名:二进制目标文件
  • He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
  • He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。
2 laden
adj.装满了的;充满了的;负了重担的;苦恼的
  • He is laden with heavy responsibility.他肩负重任。
  • Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。
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 hackers
n.计算机迷( hacker的名词复数 );私自存取或篡改电脑资料者,电脑“黑客”
  • They think of viruses that infect an organization from the outside.They envision hackers breaking into their information vaults. 他们考虑来自外部的感染公司的病毒,他们设想黑客侵入到信息宝库中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Arranging a meeting with the hackers took weeks againoff-again email exchanges. 通过几星期电子邮件往来安排见面,他们最终同意了。 来自互联网
5 affected
adj.不自然的,假装的
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
6 tornado
n.飓风,龙卷风
  • A tornado whirled into the town last week.龙卷风上周袭击了这座城市。
  • The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。
7 uprooting
n.倒根,挖除伐根v.把(某物)连根拔起( uproot的现在分词 );根除;赶走;把…赶出家园
  • He is hard at work uprooting wild grass in the field. 他正在田里辛苦地芟夷呢。 来自互联网
  • A storm raged through the village, uprooting trees and flattening crops. 暴风雨袭击了村庄,拔起了树木,吹倒了庄稼。 来自互联网
8 custody
n.监护,照看,羁押,拘留
  • He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
  • He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后,他立即被押了起来。
9 imminent
adj.即将发生的,临近的,逼近的
  • The black clounds show that a storm is imminent.乌云预示暴风雨即将来临。
  • The country is in imminent danger.国难当头。
学英语单词
absinthine
acceleranstuff
anaesthesias
ansys
automatic device backup
bacterize
be destroyed
bimeby
binocular shooting
booter ies
borderliners
boss assembly
Bronwood
buoy sling
caseation
cataplerosis
Cherry Ripe
chordaria adietina rupr.
chytridialess
cicer arietinums
Cinnamomum longipetiolatum
co operative credit society
common carotids
control security plane
covellites
Curacó, R.
decarboxylase inhibitor
Dictyochaceae
document collaboration
erwig
exit prices
flypaper
fnlas
folded median
foreign short-term claims
frozen foodss
Fumel
function of product
genus Bairdiella
glide surface
glycerophthalic undercoat
goaf filling
gonbad-e kavus
griese
heater cock
Hutchinson, Anne
hybrid technology
ideal communication system
identical mapping
in prose
insusurration
interference-field intensity tester
interrupt scheme time-sharing
iodobenzamide
jeames
Jervis Ra.
jolite(cordierite)
Kasan-ri
Kefar Tavor
letter of trust
level of abstraction
lift damper
lint free
measelry
message identification
mind-twisters
Mqabba
nongas
optical nonlinear loop mirrors
oregon country
paabo
pelagophytes
period charge
personality and persuasibility
praxeologically
pre-flysch facies
preoral
privately-owneds
proximal-polar aperture
recovery device
red-browns
rubber insulated gloves
sachet
Seed stage
series combined mechanism
shag-bag
shepherd's clock
soft crown glass
standard font
starting air slide valve
subcostal vein
subindicate
sulcatone
sun tree
tailstock center
titanium subsulfide
trihalogenomethane
vicious reasoning
vulnerarious
webge clamp
Wilson's thrush