时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2010年


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Catastrophic fire warnings continue in the south and east of Australia today as temperatures soar into the mid 1 40s. There is a total fire ban in much of Victoria and southern New South Wales. Commuters in Melbourne are facing more delays as the extreme heat causes power failures and cancellation 2 of trains. The city Mel sweltered through its hottest night ever with temperatures at midnight still at 37 degrees. 


Police are questioning a man over a fatal stabbing in Sydney's west last night. Investigators 3 say a man in his 40s was killed during a dispute at a unit block in Belmore. In another case, a 17-year-old boy was stabbed on a bus at Ambarvale while a teenage girl was stabbed during a fight at Surry Hills. 


Chinese officials say they've wrapped up their investigation 4 into the former Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu and are now waiting for prosecutors 5 to decide whether his case will go to trial. 


And tombs found in Egypt have shed new light on the lives of the men who built the pyramids. Archaeologists say the graves suggest the pyramids were built by free workers and not slaves. They ate meals regularly, worked in three-month shifts and were given the honour of being buried  in mud brick tombs. 


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1 mid
adj.中央的,中间的
  • Our mid-term exam is pending.我们就要期中考试了。
  • He switched over to teaching in mid-career.他在而立之年转入教学工作。
2 cancellation
n.删除,取消
  • Heavy seas can cause cancellation of ferry services.海上风浪太大,可能须要取消渡轮服务。
  • Her cancellation of her trip to Paris upset our plan.她取消了巴黎之行打乱了我们的计划。
3 investigators
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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 prosecutors
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 ); 告发人; 起诉人; 公诉人
  • In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方,检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
  • You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
学英语单词
acoustic inertia
adaptive delta pulse code modulation
alliterators
alternating current voltammetry
amender
anterior white commissure
avena barbatas
blasphemeth
blocking hoe
blue-jean
bolt circle
cadyas
candu type hwr fuel assembly
canti
cardiometry
cattle grazing
Cephalaspidomorphi
ceramic metal combination
civil registrar
Clinton shales
collagenizations
Dalan Hural
Dermatobia
design of holding characters in both hands
deubert
diaphragm type pressure gauge
direct department
eberstadt
eickelman
electrokinetic moment
entitlement authority
fed-upness
fisher pirn changing loom
fitted into
flowering hazels
fore and aft motion
french-fry
funcall
genesistasis
glycoglyeeride
greater tuberosity (humerus)
hard-and-fast rule
hoepfnerite (tremolite)
hypolimnetic
indicating rate
intralobular biliary canal
intraocular foreign body
irrecoverable compliance
Khong Chiam
lapachoic acid
laplaces equation
Ledum
load point marker
local/remote communication link
lockers
main discharge valve
mercarbolide
mirror image reversal
moisture content of sf6
natural erosion
normoskeocytosis
number of channels
nylet
parasubstitution
Pend Oreille
Phoschol
plate detector
polyunsaturate
Pontianus
postulate of equal a priori probabilities
pressure multiplier
pullony
quantized frequency modulation
radius bucket
reinforced concrete column
religious reform
rubidium praseodymium nitrate
schizopodid
Sciameter
sexual progeny
side-valve
sighting range in water
sinocythere yowdyi
situational attitude scale
slit-shaped
slow-down characteristic
spot sample
staircase function
studbolt
surface, work
Tandaltī
tele-politic
televideos
theory of controls
thimble-eye
tokenless block
two-stage compression refrigeration system
UCS (universal character set)
unilateral circuit
Unna
utility program
yamadas