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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 Freed Burmese Opposition 1 leader Aung San Suu Kyi has offered an olive branch to the country’s military junta 2. She says she’s willing to talk to the regime about ways to establish democracy in the country. She says she also wants to speak to western leaders about reducing sanctions that have been applied 3 to Burma. 


 
A new report says making teachers more effective would achieve better results than reducing class sizes, as Michael just mentioned. That report by the Grattan Institute says increasing teachers’ effectiveness by just 10 per cent would make Australia’s education system one of the best in the world. It says it would also improve productivity, potentially lifting economic growth by $19 million by 2050. 
 
That latest OECD report on Australia is a mixed bag for the Gillard government. It says the planned mining tax should be reworked, because the rate is too low. It also questions the structure of the National Broadband Network, saying it could stifle 4 competition. But the report does support pricing carbon as soon as possible. 
 
The Greens’ chances of winning Lower House seats in this month’s Victorian state election have been dealt a serious blow. The Liberals have decided 5 to direct preferences to Labor 6 instead, significantly improving the LP’s chances of hanging on to some vulnerable inner-city seats.
 
And Somali pirates have freed a retired 7 British couple who’ve been held hostage for more than a year. Paul and Rachel Chandler were kidnapped after their yacht was hijacked 8 by pirates off the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean in October last year. 

1 opposition
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
2 junta
n.团体;政务审议会
  • The junta reacted violently to the perceived threat to its authority.军政府感到自身权力受威胁而进行了激烈反击。
  • A military junta took control of the country.一个军政权控制了国家。
3 applied
adj.应用的;v.应用,适用
  • She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
  • This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。
4 stifle
vt.使窒息;闷死;扼杀;抑止,阻止
  • She tried hard to stifle her laughter.她强忍住笑。
  • It was an uninteresting conversation and I had to stifle a yawn.那是一次枯燥无味的交谈,我不得不强忍住自己的呵欠。
5 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
6 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
7 retired
adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的
  • The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
  • Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
8 hijacked
劫持( hijack的过去式和过去分词 ); 绑架; 拦路抢劫; 操纵(会议等,以推销自己的意图)
  • The plane was hijacked by two armed men on a flight from London to Rome. 飞机在从伦敦飞往罗马途中遭到两名持械男子劫持。
  • The plane was hijacked soon after it took off. 那架飞机起飞后不久被劫持了。
学英语单词
after compass
air breaking
air range
ajay
attester
beist
by the agency of
calcium acrylate
camshaft annular combustion chamber
Cathy Come Home
cimepanol
combined industrial and agricultural value of output
commodity group
conservation laws
control resistor
controlled accounts
cranioplasty
crl
De Vries' theory
decision data
delaunay triangulation
dicyclopentadienyltitanium
direct current motor
direct tolerancing
double cleftlip
erymid
escort tanker
Every dog has its day
foofaraw
friction motion
furuncle of penis
GACF
greater pudendal lip
gunned ladle
heat-stabilized wood
Hellenisation
hertzian vibrator
heteroenoid system
hourcade
ichnofossil
Imlaystown
indanones
internal focusing telescope
internal trading
intra-annual
isolated reef
key system
khatris
kneading mixer
koro
labneh
lead - acid battery
lonchaea formosa
magillicudy
magnetic electric tachometer
magnetic grate
mahlke
manuelo
marine succession
metal-tank mercury-arc rectifier
multipartitioned blackboard
narrowbeam
near-nuclear state
nonappealing
normalizing condition
nuclear fusion device
op shops
ouinestrol
palladacycles
partner's salary
peanut thrips
perimetrist
pretensioning system
Proportion of Degree of Fault
radio pulse
Raniformes
reclassing
refractory powder
Regutol
rethinker
reverberatory wire net
right handed rotation
Rotaliaca
run off the tie
self-acting travel
semilegendary
split vision
square key
stewarts
sympathize
taper rolling machine
tera-joule
thalassogenetic
toilless
top of bole
tourain
tree-pusher
us tablespoon
virtual pitch circle
wieniawski
wind porch
with a heavy tread