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
a bit of muslin
abnormal hearing
adipocytes
aerodynamic maneuver
alkylantimony halide
aloe chinensis bak.
Ambohibary
analog-digital-analog conversion system
atonest
autograt
be up to one's old tricks
Brooklynite
brunei b.
bull gear reducer
calcium 5'-ribonuucleotide
caveated
cerous hydropyrophosphate
chelseas
Chetopir
Chirita monantha
combining
constant formula diet
copesmate
corporation library
counter-balance piece
davuls
debris storage capacity
decolonialized
descanted
ductography
Duggendorf
encylical
Fanta Shet'
feathering paddle-wheel
finance statistics
fusible interlining
glutinane
go down to
golpe
goodstein
gotterleben
gyffe
have one's fingers in the till
heredo-familial corneal dystrophy
iced-tea spoons
implementation requirement
in view of
inclosure(enclosure)
inner ring axis
internal dielectric membrane
inuredness
inwardmost
kiet
lacewear
large pill
learning activity package
Marquess of Queensberry rules
maximum grinding hole diameter
megalomycin
minelaying
morticer
multi-gradient magnetic separator
multispectral remote sensing system
omit function
overtoils
oxandrin
peace camp
pectinellus
pentagrid converter
Pierofanina
pilot's automatic telephone weather answering service
powder-like fur
pro-europeans
pure clay
pyrophosphatases
qusternary syphilis
r-l-c oscillator
ratchet-toothed escape wheel
raw gasoline
recognized component
revised price
Rubia mandersii
run-on sentences
scheerer
seminal cyst
shell tap
soft emplacement
sowing plot
spongio-
spontaneous request
tank block
tavarus
technofetishist
to smash
tobicillin
total derived functor
triple deck screen
two lined octave
vaccinoids
whitetailed
wrightstown
zawadski