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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 Brazil is in shock after a gunman shot dead at least 10 children at a school in Rio de Janeiro before killing 1 himself. About a dozen others, mostly children, were also injured. Police say the shooter said he was there to speak at a conference before walking into a classroom and then opening fire. He was armed with two guns and had a suicide note.


 
Japan’s ambassador in Ivory Coast has been rescued in a daring operation by French troops. The ambassador and seven of his staff were trapped in the embassy for hours after troops loyal to Laurent Gbagbo overran the building and used it as a base to fire weapons. Fierce fighting has broken out in Abidjan once again where the besieged 2 president is still refusing to surrender.
 
Patrick Stevedores 3 will take legal action today to try to stop a strike action at its ports. The Maritime 4 Union is planning a series of rolling strikes from tomorrow in its battle with the company for more pay. The company says the action will disrupt dozens of ships at ports around the country.
 
The Australian Defence Association has launched a counterattack on a minister over his reaction to a sex scandal at the Defence Force Academy. It’s accusing Stephen Smith of overreacting and unfairly maligning 5 the military. Mr Smith accused the academy of poorly managing the young cadet, who claimed she was secretly filmed having sex with a colleague.

1 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
2 besieged
包围,围困,围攻( besiege的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Paris was besieged for four months and forced to surrender. 巴黎被围困了四个月后被迫投降。
  • The community besieged the newspaper with letters about its recent editorial. 公众纷纷来信对报社新近发表的社论提出诘问,弄得报社应接不暇。
3 stevedores
n.码头装卸工人,搬运工( stevedore的名词复数 )
  • The stevedores' work is to load and unload ships. 装卸工人的工作是装卸船只。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The stevedores will see to that. 搬运工会格外注意。 来自商贸英语会话
4 maritime
adj.海的,海事的,航海的,近海的,沿海的
  • Many maritime people are fishermen.许多居于海滨的人是渔夫。
  • The temperature change in winter is less in maritime areas.冬季沿海的温差较小。
5 maligning
vt.污蔑,诽谤(malign的现在分词形式)
  • She was criticized for maligning innocent people. 她由于中伤好人而受到批评。 来自互联网
学英语单词
aircraft control
allochthonous limestone
anal cerari
andre weils
apreciate
asclepiadaceae mildweed family
athletic training
backward flow forming
base and bracket
Bernsdorf
blast chiller
censurer
Chomskyist
chromosome set
Claonaig
code interpreter
conterion
continuous hot strip mill
cotija
crank up something
credulities
cross section paper
current problem
cyclorotation
decreased overhead
deductions from gross payroll
double-list sorting
double-tube method
drift-way
eccentric orbit
elementary body
European black and white
family practice
farm plot for one's personal needs
fingerpaint
gasp at
guard-rooms
Hammurabi
hand held computer
hand on heart
handbrake
hernioenterotomy
IEDB
image plane scanner
infraglenoid tubercles
input vector
Jales
karnatakin
klontz
klutznick
laurestina
leg formula
line alveolar
main rod brass wedge bolt
momma's boy
mouth-tooth diseases
notre - dame de paris
number jumped
numericise
one over one address code
oryzopses
perforated distribution plate
permeability and acid resisting binder
phalangeal cell
photoelectric cathode photoelectric cell
plantar metatarsal arteries
Polish language
Psephellus
public-intoxication
pyramidiot
rajaan
reciprocal chiasmata
relative bending radius
Rhaponticum carthamoides
right lower abdomen
Sarmanovo
scattered ion intensity
Sec Def
Sir Harold George Nicolson
sissonne ouverte
sizing machinery
sodium carbonte
spuddle
stiff as a board
stochastic disturbance
storage(tank)
strategic opportunities
suspended-level viscometer
table-setting
talk down
testamenti factio passiva
the big five
The Holy Spirit
theory of controls
Trollope,Frances Milton
uncoupled bond
united states postal services
vaa
vetoproof
volder
wind-shadows
wonderwater