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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Australia is coming to terms with losing the Ashes in the deciding test at the Oval this morning. England regained 1 the urn 2 after Australia was bowled out for 348 late on the fourth day. The visitors lost by 197 runs. Australian captain Ricky Ponting says although his team gave it their all, it wasn't enough.


 


Authorities say the clean-up of the massive oil spill off the coast of Australia's northwest will be reviewed daily. They’re warning the crude oil and gas will continue leaking from the rip for at least another seven weeks. The company is planning to cap the leak by using a second offshore 3 rig to drill a new well and pump mud into the hole.


 


A state of emergency has been declared in Greece as wildfires threaten the capital. Thousands of people are battling to save their homes from the fires raging on the outskirts 4 of Athens. Firefighters are making some progress using water-bombing aircraft. But the flames are being fanned by unpredictable winds.


 


And there is widespread accusations 5 of fraud and rigging in Afghanistan’s presidential election. The Election Complaints Commission says it’s already received over 200 complaints. The main challenger Abdullah Abdullah is also accusing the president Hamid Karzai of rigging the vote.


 


And I’ll have more news in an hour.



1 regained
复得( regain的过去式和过去分词 ); 赢回; 重回; 复至某地
  • The majority of the people in the world have regained their liberty. 世界上大多数人已重获自由。
  • She hesitated briefly but quickly regained her poise. 她犹豫片刻,但很快恢复了镇静。
2 urn
n.(有座脚的)瓮;坟墓;骨灰瓮
  • The urn was unearthed entire.这只瓮出土完整无缺。
  • She put the big hot coffee urn on the table and plugged it in.她将大咖啡壶放在桌子上,接上电源。
3 offshore
adj.海面的,吹向海面的;adv.向海面
  • A big program of oil exploration has begun offshore.一个大规模的石油勘探计划正在近海展开。
  • A gentle current carried them slowly offshore.和缓的潮流慢慢地把他们带离了海岸。
4 outskirts
n.郊外,郊区
  • Our car broke down on the outskirts of the city.我们的汽车在市郊出了故障。
  • They mostly live on the outskirts of a town.他们大多住在近郊。
5 accusations
n.指责( accusation的名词复数 );指控;控告;(被告发、控告的)罪名
  • There were accusations of plagiarism. 曾有过关于剽窃的指控。
  • He remained unruffled by their accusations. 对于他们的指控他处之泰然。
学英语单词
administrative functions
agricultural meteorology
airborne dye lidar
allowable pressure
ammonifications
Anopheles annularis
ante-ambulate
architectural-level
awaped
Baierrite
balanced sample
base bra
beeper-control system
Berberophone
carbon disulphide
catamorphisms
changyol-li (changyon-ni)
Chinese character output
Committee on Disarmament
copying unit
cream-crackered
crocodile dundee
cylinder head outlet connection
dentes epistrophei
diphtheritic polyneuropathy
dlrs. dlrs.
drawing string
end-to-side jejunojejunostomy
ethylene iodide
focusing microscope
foggoes
Grandemone
Grigor'yevskoye
Hardangerfjorden
hattersleys
information kiosk
ink viscosity
internal triangle
intervalley transport time
Irox
Jinja-Bugembe
Kamienna
kino gums
Krasnokamenka
kubeliks
labeled storage
leased fee
leather product
libellize
link press
liquid viscometer
long-minded
lose track of time
lotus ornament
Lover's Tiff
Mach kernel
malar bones
mild steel tee T
monsterest
N-acetylheparin-monosulfate
NKAO
noise level
nonrandom comparison group methods
nuclear cost
optimal resource allocation
pectinioside
Percotol
periodic volcano
permeatal
phoneme
pipe-line electronics
pitch of arch
plimsol, plimsole
poculum
practice-teaching
preadditive category
protein extract
purpura hypergloblinemica
quartermasters-general
quatrefoils
rafha
raster scan tube
real time scale
Sangpyong
security critical mechanisms
sentence negation
single table
slimies
steam recovery tower
steery
structural reform
subleading
tareyton
the minister of finance
to be about
trimetaphan camphorsulfonate
twigs
vacuolation
Very Large Telescope
weaponism
wood fraise machine
zezima