时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2009年


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Celebrations are continuing in Germany as thousands mark 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. German Chancellor 1 Angela Merkel joined the world leaders and dignitaries, setting off the line of giant dominos where the wall once stood. Despite the rain, tens of thousands of people gathered at the Brandenburg Gate to hear world leaders speak about the historic significance of events of 1989 and the reunification of the East and West.


Police are investigating the deaths of two people in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. The bodies of an elderly man and his 37-year-old daughter were found at a house in Randwick yesterday afternoon. A 3-year-old girl thought to be the man’s grandchild was taken to hospital with stab wounds.


Torrential rain is continuing to lash 2 Central America as Hurricane Ida triggers more floods and mudslides. The death toll 3 in El Salvador has risen to 130, and tens of thousands of people have been left homeless, rescue teams are struggling to reach some of the worst affected 4 areas.


And food manufacture Kraft has launched a 17-billion-dollar bid for the British confectionery giant Cadbury. Cadbury’s management has already rejected an offer from Kraft. It’s now made a direct bid to the company’s shareholders 5.


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1 chancellor
n.(英)大臣;法官;(德、奥)总理;大学校长
  • They submitted their reports to the Chancellor yesterday.他们昨天向财政大臣递交了报告。
  • He was regarded as the most successful Chancellor of modern times.他被认为是现代最成功的财政大臣。
2 lash
v.系牢;鞭打;猛烈抨击;n.鞭打;眼睫毛
  • He received a lash of her hand on his cheek.他突然被她打了一记耳光。
  • With a lash of its tail the tiger leaped at her.老虎把尾巴一甩朝她扑过来。
3 toll
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
4 affected
adj.不自然的,假装的
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
5 shareholders
n.股东( shareholder的名词复数 )
  • The meeting was attended by 90% of shareholders. 90%的股东出席了会议。
  • the company's fiduciary duty to its shareholders 公司对股东负有的受托责任
学英语单词
acanthopt
account receivable discounted
acidophilic adenoma
adynaton
aerlal sickness
air chamber of pump
allocation factor of service track
analogue measuring instrument
antitoxines
army mark
aryl halide
bagless beach seine
bertola
bezoar stone
big-girl pants
bird's-nie
boat pad
body-making
bridals
bristly locusts
bruen
cabinet finish
center furnace
charge on income
chloridizing unit
ciliated epidermis
clinical ultrasound medicine
constant-power welding source
cover aggregation
crepuscular ray(s)
cumopyran
cylinder-processing machine
DBIs
derricking speed
destimulates
dibenzoyl
digit circuit
directional policy matrix
feed condition
fist fight
fuel nox
gearbox dipstick
genus polydactyluss
genus porphyrios
houndy
huisaches
hypervirulence
inelastic tripping
jobrelated
lethal firearms
Majaneng
make enemies of
Methoxyphalan
might-have-beens
mikhailovitch
mineral water grade sugar
natural polymers
nomarchs
non-repudiation of transport
Omo Ranch
one man's meat is another man's poison
Opisthotony
ossipyte(ossipite)
painted Jezebel
palladium(ii) nitrate
paper chases
paraxial electron beam
pentafluoro-benzoly-imidazole
persistent wave
phosarbine
precontain
presacral anesthesia
pseudocercospora ehretiae
psychosomaticists
quadrilaterals
quasi-linear
regular foam
rhyming couplet
roset(rosette)
roundeleer
skemp
snowlessness
sodium silicate solid
solar time
stagger head
stannic sulfides
strategic intelligences
studio-to-transmitter link
system of inspection on quality
tedesso
theoretical flame temperature
to quit
tomiichi
toseas
unbias(s)ed estimation
unkissed
Utzon
value life
velocity gauging
voirs
wholesaled
wide-band matching