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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 Prime Minister is set to call a leadership ballot 1 for Monday.Kevin Rudd lit the fuels yesterday when he resigned as foreign minister.Several ministers have publicly backed to Mr.Rudd and thrown their support behind the prime minister.Treasurer 2 Wayne Swan has accused him of continually undermining the government.


 
A train crash in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires,has killed 49 people and injured at least 6,000 others.Eyewitness 3 say the train was traveling fast when it's slammed into a barrier at the end of the platform.Dozens of people are still trapped in the wreckage 4.
 
Respected war correspondent,Marie Colvin and French photo journalist have been killed in the Syrian city of Homs.They died when the house they were staying in was shelled by government troops.More than 40 people died in the assault on the city.
 
Indonesia's police and military have opened fire at Bali's Kerobokan  prison after a second-night of riot.It's not clear if they were shooting into the air or at prisoners.The prison holds a thousand inmates 5 including Schapelle Corby and 11 other Australian convicted of drug smuggling 6.
 
Victoria's department of Human Services is planing to ax 500 jobs as part of the major restructure. The department says the cuts will come from voluntary redundancies and not renewing short-term contracts.More than three and half thousand public service jobs will go over the next two years.

1 ballot
n.(不记名)投票,投票总数,投票权;vi.投票
  • The members have demanded a ballot.会员们要求投票表决。
  • The union said they will ballot members on whether to strike.工会称他们将要求会员投票表决是否罢工。
2 treasurer
n.司库,财务主管
  • Mr. Smith was succeeded by Mrs.Jones as treasurer.琼斯夫人继史密斯先生任会计。
  • The treasurer was arrested for trying to manipulate the company's financial records.财务主管由于试图窜改公司财政帐目而被拘留。
3 eyewitness
n.目击者,见证人
  • The police questioned several eyewitness to the murder.警察询问了谋杀案的几位目击者。
  • He was the only eyewitness of the robbery.他是那起抢劫案的唯一目击者。
4 wreckage
n.(失事飞机等的)残骸,破坏,毁坏
  • They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
  • New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。
5 inmates
n.囚犯( inmate的名词复数 )
  • One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 smuggling
n.走私
  • Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。
  • The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。
学英语单词
acid resisting brick
aerial infection
andreev
angle fron
architectural ornaments
automatic calling (in a data network)
bipolymer
blowesses
casual loss
cavitation core
cimifugol
contorts
conveyor head roll
core shooting
corer
cramdown
cross the Bar
crystallographic symmetry
cut-off frequency
cyathus striatus
damp course
data input unit
Delatest
demon-king
DLS
dog mark
downy ash
Doylist
driftlessness
drop type fuse link
ebil
electrochemical etching
electrooptic(al) material
elims
ELLOBIIDAE
entolomas
finite setting time
flews
full information maximum likelihood estimation
gas pressure-regulating station
gaudiest
gravity thickener
grouped joint
gunpoke
gym-rat
hardness test(ing)
healme
heterophil
hold hands
humdrummeries
hydrodynamically
impacted school district
interim certificate
joint action by the contracting parties
key entry
light economic structure
Lippmann's capillary electrometer
Lucky Lake
mail cover
margarins
metaling bar
Min of Ag
Mollugo nudicaulis
month calendar control
motorbiking
netmask
neutral humus
nibur
nine times out of ten
nonparametric test
object signing
off the book payment
op. cit
operating personnel error
ox gall
papyritious
platform independence
pleonectite
PLGB
Pyrolaxonum
rasks
sarplys
secondary optimization problem
semi-average
shunted interpole
shuttle receiver box
solid circle
spiral plate exchanger
staphylococcus vaccine
sub-deans
synperiodic
tethered submersible
throw a sickie
trans-quantitative method
type of work
universal radial drilling machine
unless otherwise specified (UOS)
vampira
Vinnitsa
water supply tank
WEI (World Environment Institute)
xillix