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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 Villawood violence has erupted at the detention 1 centre. There, detainees have set fire to several buildings, and a gas cylinder 2 has exploded. Fire crews are trying to fight the blaze and have been pelted 3 with roof tiles by the protesters.


 
A South Australian MP has been arrested and charged with child pornography offences. The MP who can't be named was arrested at his Adelaide home last night. He was nabbed as part of a police operation targeting Internet child pornography. He's been released on bail 4 and will face court next month.
 
Julia Gillard has arrived in Tokyo with a special message of condolence to the Japanese people. The Prime Minister will meet the Japanese emperor today. She'll also hold talks with Japan's prime minister and business leaders to discuss trade and defence ties before visiting some of the affected 5 areas on Saturday.
 
Tony Abbott is hoping to trump 6 the Prime Minister on mental health funding ahead of next month's budget. The Opposition 7 leader will use a speech in Sydney today to announce $430 million worth of mental health initiatives. That's on top of the $1.5 billion he'd committed at last year's election.
 
And discount airline Tiger may be grounded because of serious safety and maintenance breaches 8. News Limited is reporting the Civil Aviation Safety Authority has issued the airline with a show cause notice. It's seeking urgent answers to concerns about the standard of pilot training and shortcuts 9 in maintenance.

1 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。
2 cylinder
n.圆筒,柱(面),汽缸
  • What's the volume of this cylinder?这个圆筒的体积有多少?
  • The cylinder is getting too much gas and not enough air.汽缸里汽油太多而空气不足。
3 pelted
(连续地)投掷( pelt的过去式和过去分词 ); 连续抨击; 攻击; 剥去…的皮
  • The children pelted him with snowballs. 孩子们向他投掷雪球。
  • The rain pelted down. 天下着大雨。
4 bail
v.舀(水),保释;n.保证金,保释,保释人
  • One of the prisoner's friends offered to bail him out.犯人的一个朋友答应保释他出来。
  • She has been granted conditional bail.她被准予有条件保释。
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 trump
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
  • He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
  • The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手,作为他的王牌。
7 opposition
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
8 breaches
破坏( breach的名词复数 ); 破裂; 缺口; 违背
  • He imposed heavy penalties for breaches of oath or pledges. 他对违反誓言和保证的行为给予严厉的惩罚。
  • This renders all breaches of morality before marriage very uncommon. 这样一来,婚前败坏道德的事就少见了。
9 shortcuts
n.捷径( shortcut的名词复数 );近路;快捷办法;被切短的东西(尤指烟草)
  • In other words, experts want shortcuts to everything. 换句话说,专家需要所有的快捷方式。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
  • Offer shortcuts from the Help menu. 在帮助菜单中提供快捷方式。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
学英语单词
3-beta-Hydroxycholestane
a creep
adenine-9-beta-ribofuranoside
airliners
allenol
Almirante Brown Canyon
axonal reaction
bastard file
boxtree
brake cylinder force
brassnecked
brellie
bullet splash injury
bulletless
centerboard pendant
circumferential cartilage
co-directional
compensating developer
coruscation
Corydalis linearis
crucifiers
cupressus abramsianas
doccies
dorsal flexion
double gang packer
double mast
drapetis lanuginosa
du Bellay, Joachim
dual inline package
e-word
eight pen vector plotter
engraulidids
facultative factor
gothicizing
grab me
guidance orientation
hard alloy grinding block
Hilbert-Schmidt operator
hollow hub
hydrometic propeller
ichthyosarcotoxin
illegal fund raising
image sensing camera
individual-level
inside of blades
international federation for information processing
Iowa R.
Kushitic
laymanizes
liberalizations
line critical graph
liquid explosive drill
liquid-solid separation
Loyalty Contract
Magado
modestinus
Moine schists
neogenic
nim standard logic levels
node link
Obi-Wan Kenobi
optical bus
osteomyelitis of jaw
other accrued expenses payable
pappus theorems
peak-demand
Phaius takeoi
plug washer
prospectives
pulling for
puter
quee
Ranunculus minor
read my mind
rigid tower
rubgies
sedimentography
seller's share
shock height
Sims's suture
so wags the world.
student doctor
suction pipeline
Sudovia
sweep-forward angle
teliosporangium
teratoma of testis
thallates
three-dimensional model
three-stage torque converter
thrisse
tinmouth
TV remote pickup
Unha-dong
vacillation
viral esophagitis
visible oil flow gauge
voxel value
water-wave analogue
wear-resisting
wind-suckings
zero-difference detection