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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Fifty-two people are now known to have died during an operation to free worshippers held by gunmen inside a Baghdad church. One hundred and twenty people were held in the Catholic church for at least four hours. When Iraqi security forces stormed the building, more than 50 people were killed and dozens more injured. Despite the casualties, the Iraqi defence minister described the operation as a success.


UK officials say the tip-off about parcel bombs being on two US-bound cargo 1 planes came from a repentant 2 al-Qaeda member. Officials have told the BBC a former Guantanamo Bay detainee handed himself into Saudi Arabian authorities two weeks ago. After leaving Guantanamo, he went through a rehabilitation 3 program in Saudi Arabia, then rejoined al-Qaeda in Yemen before turning himself into authorities.


The UN says Australia has resettled just ten per cent of the refugees it had committed to take from Indonesia. Australia agreed to boost its intake 4 of Indonesian asylum 5 seekers from around 50 to 500 early this year. But Jakarta office of the UNHCR says so far it has recommended 528 refugees for resettlement, but only 52 have so far gone to Australia. The Government is declining to comment on the shortfall.


The Government says it’s prepared to consider an extension of the time to finalise the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. The Basin Authority is holding consultation 6 meetings about its initial proposal. A draft plan is due early next year and a final plan is due by the end of that year.



1 cargo
n.(一只船或一架飞机运载的)货物
  • The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.这条船大约有200吨的货物。
  • A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.许多人从船上卸下货物。
2 repentant
adj.对…感到悔恨的
  • He was repentant when he saw what he'd done.他看到自己的作为,心里悔恨。
  • I'll be meek under their coldness and repentant of my evil ways.我愿意乖乖地忍受她们的奚落,忏悔我过去的恶行。
3 rehabilitation
n.康复,悔过自新,修复,复兴,复职,复位
  • He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
  • No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。
4 intake
n.吸入,纳入;进气口,入口
  • Reduce your salt intake.减少盐的摄入量。
  • There was a horrified intake of breath from every child.所有的孩子都害怕地倒抽了一口凉气。
5 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。
6 consultation
n.咨询;商量;商议;会议
  • The company has promised wide consultation on its expansion plans.该公司允诺就其扩展计划广泛征求意见。
  • The scheme was developed in close consultation with the local community.该计划是在同当地社区密切磋商中逐渐形成的。
学英语单词
4-Stilbazole
acid cream
adaptively trimmed mean
ain defla
alpha-blocker globulin
anscombes
at someone's request
back of nose
bilby steel tower
boy howdy
business premise
Canadian Transport Commission
charge - transfer device
Claddagh ring
constant temperature cabinet
crack measuring apparatus
crossed masking
curtain fire
cyclic(al)
daney
deck log voyage
diffusion time
direct access inquiry
ED (electromagnetic detection)
Enduxan
erme
esbar diode
foreland depression
half-maximum linewidth
halloweenland
haptenizing
haunched bracket
Helmighausen
incremental magnetic tape
interfaceless
international radium standard
keep early hours
lacquer-resin peel
Laser Slabs
leaving certificate
lens centremeter
ligging
listing fee
lose synchronism
magnetom
meeting type
mercuric bromide
meteorologic station
microlithofacies
midstrength
mining and quarrying - isic
mousselines
moveman
mr.right
multiprocessor element
natur-ally
niekro
nonminimum phase lag
nonsynchronous network
Oedong
onokoid
overtempted
page address register
pairing model
peenge
persecutee
pipe-smoking
primary weapon
pro-and-conned
prosencephalon
ptui
rehabilitational psychology
Retana
rhr pipe
rim segregate
scyph-
sealed cabin atmosphere
set up a cry
shallow aluminum can
shipboard gravimeter
smoking compartment
space of discission
sprain of knee joint
Stakroge
structural matrix
Subdelessite
sulfacecole
synanthody
Taiyo Kobe Bank
tel.&tel.
torce
traveling grate
truttle
two-seat cabin
U-tube heat exchangerU
unthroned
Vi-De-3-hydrosol
webometrics
weld overlay cladding
wellhead manifold
xixua
zinc-oxide varistor