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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Hello. The Immigration Minister Chris Bowen will meet the East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta today. Mr Bowen arrived in East Timor last night. It'll be the first round of direct talks with the East Timorese government about a proposed regional refugee processing centre. Dr Ramos-Horta has said any processing centre in East Timor would be temporary. And he wants guarantees that asylum 1 seekers would leave after three years.


Regional communities are gearing up for a fight as public consultations 2 on the Murray-Darling Basin plan begin today. Shepparton in Central Northern Victoria has been chosen for the first round of talks. Irrigators say plans to slash 3 their water allocations could destroy their livelihoods 4. The Government hopes the plan will help revive the ailing 5 river system.


Australian sprinter 6 Sally Pearson has bounced back to claim gold in the 100m hurdles 7 final with a resounding 8 win overnight. Steve Hooker, meanwhile, won his second consecutive 9 Commonwealth 10 gold in the pole vault 11. Australia still leads the medal tally 12 with 64 gold medals, 40 silver and 39 bronze. 


A Greek policeman has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a schoolboy in 2008. The incident sparked mass unrest in Athens and neighbouring cities. The 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos was shot dead in December, 2008.


Israel has offered to renew a partial freeze on settlement building if the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state. But a Palestinian spokesman has rejected the condition



1 asylum
n.避难所,庇护所,避难
  • The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
  • Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。
2 consultations
n.磋商(会议)( consultation的名词复数 );商讨会;协商会;查找
  • Consultations can be arranged at other times by appointment. 磋商可以通过预约安排在其他时间。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • Consultations are under way. 正在进行磋商。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
3 slash
vi.大幅度削减;vt.猛砍,尖锐抨击,大幅减少;n.猛砍,斜线,长切口,衣衩
  • The shop plans to slash fur prices after Spring Festival.该店计划在春节之后把皮货降价。
  • Don't slash your horse in that cruel way.不要那样残忍地鞭打你的马。
4 livelihoods
生计,谋生之道( livelihood的名词复数 )
  • First came the earliest individualistic pioneers who depended on hunting and fishing for their livelihoods. 走在最前面的是早期的个人主义先驱者,他们靠狩猎捕鱼为生。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
  • With little influence over policies, their traditional livelihoods are threatened. 因为马赛族人对政策的影响力太小,他们的传统生计受到了威胁。
5 ailing
v.生病
  • They discussed the problems ailing the steel industry. 他们讨论了困扰钢铁工业的问题。
  • She looked after her ailing father. 她照顾有病的父亲。
6 sprinter
n.短跑运动员,短距离全速奔跑者
  • He is more a sprinter than a swimmer. 他是短跑健将,而不是游泳选手。 来自辞典例句
  • The sprinter himself thinks he can run the race at 9.4 seconds. 这位短跑运动员自认为可以用9.4秒跑完比赛。 来自互联网
7 hurdles
n.障碍( hurdle的名词复数 );跳栏;(供人或马跳跃的)栏架;跨栏赛
  • In starting a new company, many hurdles must be crossed. 刚开办一个公司时,必须克服许多障碍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • There are several hurdles to be got over in this project. 在这项工程中有一些困难要克服。 来自辞典例句
8 resounding
adj. 响亮的
  • The astronaut was welcomed with joyous,resounding acclaim. 人们欢声雷动地迎接那位宇航员。
  • He hit the water with a resounding slap. 他啪的一声拍了一下水。
9 consecutive
adj.连续的,联贯的,始终一贯的
  • It has rained for four consecutive days.已连续下了四天雨。
  • The policy of our Party is consecutive.我党的政策始终如一。
10 commonwealth
n.共和国,联邦,共同体
  • He is the chairman of the commonwealth of artists.他是艺术家协会的主席。
  • Most of the members of the Commonwealth are nonwhite.英联邦的许多成员国不是白人国家。
11 vault
n.拱形圆顶,地窖,地下室
  • The vault of this cathedral is very high.这座天主教堂的拱顶非常高。
  • The old patrician was buried in the family vault.这位老贵族埋在家族的墓地里。
12 tally
n.计数器,记分,一致,测量;vt.计算,记录,使一致;vi.计算,记分,一致
  • Don't forget to keep a careful tally of what you spend.别忘了仔细记下你的开支账目。
  • The facts mentioned in the report tally to every detail.报告中所提到的事实都丝毫不差。
学英语单词
air tight bulkhead
aluminum ink
aphaptotropism
assumed origin
balts
beckon call
blacktail deer
book lore
Cao Lang, Tinh
chain discount
challenge-response identification
china pt.
chloride of lime
cleric
clock control
cloquet
cobalt sulfide
consistency curve
Coulomb law of friction
cranked bearing
d.o.t
Dib, Rās
director of prosecutions
distributed resistive suppressor
electrocatrdiogram
equiangular projection
equivalence name
esophagi
eunuchs
excelsior plate
exploratory survey
farm products processing industry
foliole
goggle-dive
Hawaii Standard Time
helical symmetry (of virus)
ILAS
incomplete leaf
internal diseconomy
investment in heavy industry
juxes
Leewood
left lumbar turnks
lexitropsins
liberty of conscience
looms ahead
loop of small intestine
magnetic ink character
magnetic point group
make the best of a bad business
manufacturing enterprise
Mazabuka
medicinal cake
modified staple fibre
muskinunge
net income creating expenditure
Nonant-le-Pin
nonsucculent plants
nontrain
nouny
off one's chop
organofluoride
pheromonic
pi bonding
Pickstown
pierre de coubertin
plates of meat
posterior alveolar branches
pressureair
principal valency
proiosystolia
qrams
quernal
Refresco
residual rain
RMSE
rudderfish
salisburias
Scleria oryzoides
scott-russell
seen double
shale
soft x-ray tube
straight bead welding
studlar
super-glues
synchronous operation of a machine
tail stock
telegraph rate
The aliens have landed!
Theile's glands
three-dimensional network solid
Trichamycin
unidiosyncratic
ventilated car
vessel arrival and departure report
visualizable
Vuoksi River
wafer sort
welfare mentality
yockelson