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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The bodies of eight soldiers killed in one of Britain’s deadliest days in Afghanistan have been repatriated 1. Thousands of mourners lined the streets of Wootton Bassett as flag-draped hearses made their way to a hospital morgue. The small English market town has become the focus of national mourning.


The former Liberian President Charles Taylor has denied war crime charges against him during his trial at The Hague. He is accused of directing rebel groups from Liberia to seize control of Sierra Leone’s diamond mines. The 61-year-old is charged with murder, terrorism, rape 2 and torture of thousands of civilians 3 in Sierra Leone.


Two French officials have been kidnapped in Somalia. The French Foreign Ministry 4 says the men were on an official mission when they were abducted 5 by a group of armed men. They were taken from their hotel in the government-held part of the capital Mogadishu.


North Korea has released new pictures of leader Kim Jong-Il, a day after it was reported that he had pancreatic cancer. The pictures of visits to factories, farms and military bases are being seen as an attempt to convey a sense of normalcy in the Stalinist state.


And France celebrated 6 Bastille Day with a military parade down the Champs-Elysées, and fireworks at the Eiffel Tower. The annual holiday marks the storming of the Bastille prison and sparks the French Revolution.


And that’s ABC World News.



1 repatriated
v.把(某人)遣送回国,遣返( repatriate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The refugees were forcibly repatriated. 难民被强制遣送回国。
  • Ancient artworks were repatriated from the US to Greece. 古代艺术品从美国遣送回希腊。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 rape
n.抢夺,掠夺,强奸;vt.掠夺,抢夺,强奸
  • The rape of the countryside had a profound ravage on them.对乡村的掠夺给他们造成严重创伤。
  • He was brought to court and charged with rape.他被带到法庭并被指控犯有强奸罪。
3 civilians
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
4 ministry
n.(政府的)部;牧师
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
5 abducted
劫持,诱拐( abduct的过去式和过去分词 ); 使(肢体等)外展
  • Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
  • The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。
6 celebrated
adj.有名的,声誉卓著的
  • He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
  • The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。
学英语单词
-edged
accentualist
acetoxyketobemidone
arevareva
artificial fish egg
automatic sacker
Babcock tester
baseball field
bigraded
blackbody standard
bond angle of covalent bond
builder's trial
common section
compensating self-recording instrument
compiler design
concurrent centrifuge
coryzas
cotton and rayon gimp
Delphinium trichophorum
denasalizes
direct sound
dry gangrene
emagery
emancipatory project
emission reductions
Eria marginata
eutrophicated
fabricating plant
fastidious organism
fluxing hole
genus Zigadenus
give to understand
Glyped
graphite moderator matrix
grodin
guardinis
guided missile destroyers
half speed astern
hardening modulus
highway communication
House of States
hozho
in twine
intelligent plotter
internal resorption of teeth
isentropic nozzle flow
Janus cloth
kibitzers
lanate
large electronic display
let's not
line breaker
nixietube
on one's holidays
on soundings
onesetting
ostracizer
oxyetherotherapy
Pao, R.
paper cup
passing contact
photodistributed
phuket (puket)
pink discolouration
polycultural
presocratic
private numbering plan
problem child
propogated
quantitative organic chemical analysis
re-lending
red rider
rotary core
rust prevention packaging
San Pedro de Arimena
scent of
second of arc
self-sustainingly
septic arthritis
shahdom
solar filtergram
spiraeic acid
stealth technology
suppurative labyrinthitis
sweep-frequency receiver
tap detector
thermionic vacaum ga(u)ge
throw sb overboard
Ticino River
track-bed
trahison
triacontanoic
tyloides
unappeased
undercoupling
undisciplined
Valeant
variable spring
vugh (vug)
wilburs
wire-mesh