Australia Size: 7,686,848 sq. km Population: Over 18 million Currency: Australia dollar Main language: English National Anthem: Advance Australia Fair National Flag: Australia lies 1500 km north-west

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(134) / 评论(0) 分类 知性英语

Zimbabwes Ambassador to Australia Jacqueline Zwambila has asked the Australian government for asylum. She says she fears her safety would be jeopardised if she returned to Zimbabwe after her term ends on Tuesday. This decision Ive taken is because I

发表于:2018-12-09 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 CCTV9英语新闻2013年12月

AS IT IS 2013-09-01 Australian Candidates Seek to Limit Refugees 澳大利亚的候选人寻求限制难民 Hi there, and welcome back to As It Is. Im Kelly Jean Kelly. You have probably heard of Doctors Without Borders and maybe even Reporters Witho

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 2013年VOA慢速英语(九)月

AS IT IS 2016-07-30 Australian Team Moves Into Athletes Village 澳大利亚代表队入住奥运村 When the Australian athletes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, arrived last weekend for the Olympic Games, they got a surprise. 当澳大利亚的运动员上

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In 2016, Chinese investors spent 2.4 billion Australian dollars purchasing residential land in Australia, accounting for 35 percent of all Australian real estate trade, according to Knight Frank, a global real estate consultancy company. 据全球房地

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(43) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Mining giant BHP Billiton is cutting more than 3,000 jobs in Australia and will close a major nickel mine, because of poor profitability prospects. 由于赢利前景不佳,矿业巨头必和必拓在澳大利亚裁减3千份工作,并将关闭一个

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Australia will issue its first formal apology for past mistreatment to the country's Aboriginal people early next month. The new Labor government says the move will be an important milestone in Australia's race relations. 澳大利亚将于2月向澳大

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Crocodile Industry Hopes to Boost Australia Aboriginal Communities A new report says the crocodile industry in Australia's Northern Territory is worth more than four times the previous estimate of $80 million. 一篇最新报道称,澳大利亚北领

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(八)月

MCDONELL: Its Friday night in Beijing and the rich young things have come out to play. In the 1970s you could be killed here by a mob for showing outward displays of wealth. Now barely-legal drivers can be seen behind the wheels of $600,000 sports ca

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(143) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻视频

Officials in Australia say more young foreigners looking to escape recession in other parts of the world could be heading for the country this year on working holidays. The number of skilled travelers from Britain and Germany applying for working hol

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2009年4月

Australian combat troops have begun leaving Iraq. Their departure fulfills an election promise by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who pledged to pull his country's out of Iraq by the middle of 2008. 澳大利亚作战部队开始撤离伊拉克。这项撤离

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Visitors are flocking to Australia's most famous natural landmark so they can climb it while they're still allowed to. Some consider this giant sunburned rock the very heart and soul of Australia. Europeans called it Ayers Rock. To indigenous Austral

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This is what hundreds of farmers across Australia are waiting up to, and it's going to get a lot of worse. A locust invasion which could be the most devastating in decades. A locust has been around, forever around, you know the biblical play thing in

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 英伦广角

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says Australians may soon be able to travel without their passports in a world-leading initiative. 澳大利亚外交部部长朱莉毕晓普(Julie Bishop)表示,如果一个全球领先的项目成功实行,可能

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at recess 休息 ancillary staff 辅助教员 athletics 体育课 attendance 出勤率 career reference room 职业介绍室 elective 选修 co-opted member of school council 学校委员会增选成员 canteen 食堂,小卖部 discipline 纪律,学科 lunch pass 餐卡 locker 小橱,小

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In a bid to protect Australian jobs, the number of skilled migrants allowed into the country is being cut. It is the first time in a decade that the intake has been reduced. The decision to cut the number of immigrants comes as pressure mounts on the

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模仿文本: But first to Australia where confirmation has now come of what the opinion polls have been telling us for some time. After six years of Labor leadership marked by relatively calm economic times, but fractious political infighting, the

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Todd: So, Aaron, in America we have this image of Australia being very rugged and all these dangerous animals. So is that true? 托德:亚伦,我们美国对澳大利亚的印象是,澳大利亚崎岖不平,而且有许多危险的动物。这是

发表于:2019-02-20 / 阅读(103) / 评论(0) 分类 实战口语情景对话

Todd: Now, Aaron, Australia's a big place. Can you describe the Australian landscape? 托德:亚伦,澳大利亚非常大。你能描述一下澳大利亚的风景吗? Aaron: No worries. In Australia, there are cities and then there is country.

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