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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 The man accused of shooting 12 people dead at a cinema in Denver has faced court. James Holmes sat in court in a red jail suit and with dyed orange hair and looked dazed throughout the hearing. The prosecution 1 says it will speak to the victims and their families before deciding whether to seek the death penalty.


 
 
The ABC has obtained a damning report to the east branch of the Health Services Union. The long-awaited temby report shows millions of dollars were spent on lavish 2 accommodations and huge pay rises. The Union’s former general secretary, Michael Williamson, came in for special mention. The report accuses him of nepotism 3 and a funnelling 4 millions of dollars of the Union’s fund to himself and his family.
 
 
Iraq had has its deadliest days more than two years. More than 100 people have died in the serious bombings across the country. Security forces appear to have been one of the main targets. One of the worst hit areas was a Sunni neighbourhood north of Baghded where more than 40 people dead.
 
 
The Syrian government has acknowledged for the first time that it has chemical weapons. The regime has promised it won’t use them against its own people under any circumstances. It says the weapons are stored and secured by the armed forces.
 
 
Foreign Minister Bob Carr denied that he criticised the United States during talks with republican presidential candidate, Mitt 5 Romney. Media reports suggest that senate Carr said that US was in decline. But the foreign minister says he was actually praising America’s economic strength. 

1 prosecution
n.起诉,告发,检举,执行,经营
  • The Smiths brought a prosecution against the organizers.史密斯家对组织者们提出起诉。
  • He attempts to rebut the assertion made by the prosecution witness.他试图反驳原告方证人所作的断言。
2 lavish
adj.无节制的;浪费的;vt.慷慨地给予,挥霍
  • He despised people who were lavish with their praises.他看不起那些阿谀奉承的人。
  • The sets and costumes are lavish.布景和服装极尽奢华。
3 nepotism
n.任人唯亲;裙带关系
  • The congressman lashed the president for his nepotism.国会议员抨击总统搞裙带关系。
  • Many will regard his appointment as the kind of nepotism British banking ought to avoid.很多人会把他的任命看作是英国银行业应该避免的一种裙带关系。
4 funnelling
倾销( funnel的现在分词 )
  • Wind was funnelling through the gorge. 风吹过峡谷。
  • This causes a funnelling from Asian currencies into dollars and euros. 这导致了一种从亚洲货币到美圆和欧元的漏斗效应。
5 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。
学英语单词
agata
airborne division
anisotropic stress
assimilative capacity
Ballybofey
bartlit
beat swords into ploughshares
beaver steam
Berandang, Sungai
biscuit cutter
book-ways
canyon grape
chalk and cheese
coherence check
collar splint
constitutional rest
counter-pest
county emergency operating centre
Crohn
curb
diswaryed
donating
ecoefficient
embarkation unit
enarmes
English form of closing the ledger
erwinia edgewothiae (hori et bokura) magrou.
garrulity
glyceritum ovi vitelli
half a loaf
highstakes
Holley, Robert William
Huehueto, Cerro
HYCOTRAN
impulse method
institute certificate
internal equalizer
Iriklinskiy
isotopolog
jockers
Kianza
kiddos
L-PPI
land-use survey
let out a secret
lobular
localized financial disturbance
mackay l.
macumbas
mampara
microcircuit wafer
military regulations
misexplications
modified reserve methods
moral ataxia
msk (minimum phase shift keying)
MT-RJ
multiple stage separating column
nataliya
natural profile
non-resinous irreversible engine
oil fraction
oligosiloxanes
overheat protective relay
picrosclerotine
plasmaheterogamous
pneumotachygraph
politzerizations
Processing device
promotional objectives
quetin
realized gain or loss
remote data processing
remote entry unit
rubber band method
Sayabec
scalable parallel processor
self-sterilizing
selsyn-data system
serpentiginous
single equation
sloep
slow-turning
solidus temperature
sona dome coating
SPD (self-powered detector)
speech-rate
spicule
spline approximant
start-pilot device
steel spar
sweetface
test of ability
Thingmannaheidhi
trichiurus brevis
unsupportability
vaccum filter
vestara
viable child
vibrator power supply
volta series
wetting film