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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 Presidential rivals Barack Obama and Mitt 1 Romney are in their final day frantic 2 campaigning to win the hearts and minds of America's voters. They are neck and neck in the national polls, but Barack Obama has a small lead in the swing states.


 
The Greens say the Federal Government has no choice but to stop live exports, after the Agriculture Department admitted it can't guarantee the humane 3 treatment of the live stock overseas. It follows an investigation 4 by the ABC's Four Corner's program which revealed more footage of a shipload of Australian sheep being culled 5 in Pakistan last September.
 
Wild weather has caused widespread power cuts in South Australia. More than 100,000 lightening strikes have hit the state, sparking grass and scrub fires. Emergency crews have been working through the night to restore power to thousands of homes.
 
Bids are even for another interest rate cut when Reserve Bank board meets today, the rate is currently at 3.25%.
 
Top jockey Damien Oliver will ride the Melbourne Cup favorite Americain today under a cloud, he's being interviewed by stewards 6 investigating allegations he broke the rules two years ago by betting on a race in which he rode. It'll be a case of Australia versus 7 the world when the nation stops to watch the Cup, there are several international challengers, six of them are among the top 8 favourites.

1 mitt
n.棒球手套,拳击手套,无指手套;vt.铐住,握手
  • I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日,我送给他一只棒球手套。
  • Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。
2 frantic
adj.狂乱的,错乱的,激昂的
  • I've had a frantic rush to get my work done.我急急忙忙地赶完工作。
  • He made frantic dash for the departing train.他发疯似地冲向正开出的火车。
3 humane
adj.人道的,富有同情心的
  • Is it humane to kill animals for food?宰杀牲畜来吃合乎人道吗?
  • Their aim is for a more just and humane society.他们的目标是建立一个更加公正、博爱的社会。
4 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。
5 culled
v.挑选,剔除( cull的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The herd must be culled. 必须有选择地杀掉部分牧畜。 来自辞典例句
  • The facts were culled from various sources. 这些事实是从各方收集到的。 来自辞典例句
6 stewards
(轮船、飞机等的)乘务员( steward的名词复数 ); (俱乐部、旅馆、工会等的)管理员; (大型活动的)组织者; (私人家中的)管家
  • The stewards all wore armbands. 乘务员都戴了臂章。
  • The stewards will inspect the course to see if racing is possible. 那些干事将检视赛马场看是否适宜比赛。
7 versus
prep.以…为对手,对;与…相比之下
  • The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
  • The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。
学英语单词
abnormal operation
adenophyllous
administrative authority
auricular lappet
avocados
basihyal cartilage
Bloody Caesar
bottom cable
bring down the persimmon
bromo-ll-oxoprogesterone
bunkbed
Burroughs
Cheongsando
class sporozoas
coma carcinomatosum
commemorative column
corrosion evaluation
Cotoneaster melanocarpus
cut out key
diamond core drill
diamond-shape
digital platform
diphenyl diketone
dual character of investment
dynamic allocator
family oxyuridaes
Frenchman L.
fully loaded
fustily
germinabilities
graphic art
grey glass filter
hawaiians
helgrammite
hydrodynamic force
Ibwaga
index fossil
infection success rate
java 2 platform enterprise edition product provider
judicial immunity
junt
leaketh
Leys Castle
longleaf pine oil
Lucullus
Makarios III
Medazepol
microcaps
mini-framework
mrnd
multi-variants
needs
Neolithically
niggled
nonvampires
nuclei terminales
offgo
ox (pl. oxen)
Pacapausa
parts caddy
phosphoric bromide
pickers-up
polzeaths
posthatchlings
pottical
pycnidiospores
radioactive fission gas
rageless
Raharney
rear brake van
register of pending actions
retransmission receiver
Royal Command
salted food
schottky diode field effect transistor logic
scribbly gum
seedlings
Selkirk Mountains
sensibon
sine-squared testing
sorptional capacity
sots
stegnogramma cyrtomioides(c.ch.)cheng.
storm maximization
superior alloy steel
swinging out
Süderdorf
tacket
Tirol, Bundesland
tricherie
unconditional stability criterion
unexploded cartridge
urethral apoplexy
Uttar Hārina
vernier time signal
Vinh Loi
vocalizer
vogl
warytre
went off with
workgroup switch
write addressing