时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2012年


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 A cell of Australian customs officers at the Sydney airport has allegedly allowed millions of dollars worth of drugs into the country. A joint 1 ABC Fairfax investigation 2 claims the drugs were allowed through border control over several years. Two customs officers have already been charged with bribery 3, corruption 4 and drug offenses 5. The Austrailan federal police say they'll make an announcement about the allegations later today.


 
And an investigation is underway into a suspected double-murder in Tasmania's south. Police were called to a property at Mountain River at 1 o'clock this morning and found the bodies of a man and a woman. A man who phoned police from the scene was arrested, police say he may have been related to one of the victims.
 
Police have the body of a toddler who disappeared south of Perth, hundreds of people joined police in a full-scale search at Mandurah. The two-year-old girl was with her parents near the Estuary 6 Bridge last night, when they noticed she was missing.
 
Barack Obama says it will take compromise and courage to address gun violence in the United States. The U.S president has announced his deputy Joe Biden will lead attempts to reform the country's gun laws. President Obama wants the plan to be outlined by January.
 
Two more health workers have been shot dead in Pakistan for their involvement in a polio vaccination 7 drive. Eight people have now been killed in a series of coordinated 8 attacks over the last 48 hours. Unicef has now suspended the program.

1 joint
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
2 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。
3 bribery
n.贿络行为,行贿,受贿
  • FBI found out that the senator committed bribery.美国联邦调查局查明这个参议员有受贿行为。
  • He was charged with bribery.他被指控受贿。
4 corruption
n.腐败,堕落,贪污
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
5 offenses
n.进攻( offense的名词复数 );(球队的)前锋;进攻方法;攻势
  • It's wrong of you to take the child to task for such trifling offenses. 因这类小毛病责备那孩子是你的不对。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Thus, Congress cannot remove an executive official except for impeachable offenses. 因此,除非有可弹劾的行为,否则国会不能罢免行政官员。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
6 estuary
n.河口,江口
  • We live near the Thames estuary.我们的住处靠近泰晤士河入海口。
  • The ship has touched bottom.The estuary must be shallower than we thought.船搁浅了。这河口的水比我们想像的要浅。
7 vaccination
n.接种疫苗,种痘
  • Vaccination is a preventive against smallpox.种痘是预防天花的方法。
  • Doctors suggest getting a tetanus vaccination every ten years.医生建议每十年注射一次破伤风疫苗。
8 coordinated
adj.协调的
  • The sound has to be coordinated with the picture. 声音必须和画面协调一致。
  • The numerous existing statutes are complicated and poorly coordinated. 目前繁多的法令既十分复杂又缺乏快调。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
学英语单词
absolute fatal wound
act of terrorism
advance copy
air-cooled turbine blade
aligned dimension
arctic mouse-ears
as pale as ashes
ato unit
bank holiday
bar silver
barbier
beam of uniform section
beam splitting dichroic mirror
boiler cupboard
boiling point elevation
C'esaro convergent series
Caldeirão, Sa.do
christianly
click-to-dial
configuration partition function
consistent deformation
continuous overhead sprinkling
copper clad steel
cross reference list
customs tael
decennary forbids
declaration for warehouse
dedecorated
densely ionization radiation
dequass
digital audio inputs
disclosure principle
dreadnaught,dreadnought
earnings surprise
error-deformation string
Evoron
exauguration
farming bacteriology
fidei-commissum
Freyburg
fruit-seed
gamma-butyrolacton
gauge fixing
glass table
gravity assist
grease proof wrapping
hencoops
hepatic rickets
hexylester
hot alignment
hub ratio
imporose
indeterminate fauit
Indiegogo
inter row cultivator
isobits
job confirmation
level holding pipe
Lord High Steward (of England)
multidiversified
napocor
nardoo
news summary
nuclear emulsion
optic papillae
overdimension container
overtighten
ovular
paramyxoviral
pee-eye
Pharmacometric
pigheadednesses
post-axiad
Power Five
quartz still
ratiometer
red bay
reelin
regenerative braking
reteeing
robern
safe in life and limb
see's
side house
simulated environment test
SlimBrowser
Softran
solar proton
SPDL
spheric earth
tamisier
tetons
thiaestrane
three-star
tubicoles
uncontrolled rise
unwilling to spend money
Uzunisa
vertical vane copying milling machine
Weiss' reflex myopic reflex
xylotrechus formosanus
Yongding