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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 Millions of Americans are preparing for the worst as hurricane Sandy bears down on the east coast. It's expected to make landfall later this morning with winds of up to 140 kilometers an hour. Public transport systems have shut down, thousands of flights have been canceled in the New York, stock exchange is closed. In New York city alone, almost 400,000 people have been told to evacuate 1. And shelters have been set up in schools across the city.


 
Two car bombs have killed at least ten people in the Syrian capital Damascus. Syrian jets have also been attacking rebel positions in the city in some of the heaviest bombardment this year. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon says he is disappointed the four-day ceasefire in Syria has failed.
 
A new report to be released today reveals many women are being punished for speaking out about sexual harassment 2 at work. The report by the human rights commission has found they often are labeled trouble-makers by their colleague, ostracised and some time even demoted. It says about one in five people have been sexually harassed 3 at work in the last five year.
 
The defence department has charged and reprimanded two soldiers for making violent and racist 4 comments on facebook. The comments were made in wake of last month's Islamist protest in Sydney, 13 other soldiers from the Townsville-based Third Brigade have been formally counseled.

1 evacuate
v.遣送;搬空;抽出;排泄;大(小)便
  • We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵!
  • They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
2 harassment
n.骚扰,扰乱,烦恼,烦乱
  • She often got telephone harassment at night these days.这些天她经常在夜晚受到电话骚扰。
  • The company prohibits any form of harassment.公司禁止任何形式的骚扰行为。
3 harassed
n.种族主义者,种族主义分子
  • a series of racist attacks 一连串的种族袭击行为
  • His speech presented racist ideas under the guise of nationalism. 他的讲话以民族主义为幌子宣扬种族主义思想。
学英语单词
acronic
alternating current propulsion
aluminium dihydrogen phosphate
applied factory burden
as common as the hedge
atlacomulco
attaintment
authorized capital
bead condensation
Bondil
breached
bushbash
cacalias
calcareous cement
catastrophists
centrifugal potential energy
chemical mediator
civic right
clear hawse pipe
complaint management
consistentwiths
copybook
decidedness
declutters
Donghai Coastal Current
Donnemarie-Dontilly
electronic decelerometer
erizepine
errite
Estonian Sign Language
exchange money
family disruption
fluoroethylene resin
free of particular average English conditions
galactic cosmic radiation
gastrocolic reflex
glow lamps
Gualeguay
haliotis rufescens
herd into
hexa-net
hinghman
Houlka
intermediate spinning frame
investment center
lake st. clairs
latticed dune
leggedness
life time of energy level
lisk
maslows
memory management fault
Michaelmas
Milanaise
millepora dichotoma
milli-mass-unit
multiple address computer
Myurocloda
nightspot
nosogeography
orifice flow
owners
paradoxical pupil phenomenon
percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy
Pop Idol
prehension (of an animal)hunt for food
Prirechensk
prostatoxin
receptor protein
remote broadcast
renie
rosy view
rotary coordinate system
self-discharging bucket
send control procedure
shared read-only system residence disk
shear rate thixotropy
silodosin
skip out on
slab-column structure
solita
soogee
standard change gear
statement of financial operations
stef
suborder alcyonaceas
support bearing
swineherder
tooth-shell
trichinelloses
tricholomoid
tunnel entrance brilliance
vad-
variable speech control
very large crude-oil carrier
vulcanizing apparatus
water-extractable acid of soil
windthorne
work cloths
work-session-initiation processing level
writ of replevin
yruled