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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The Government has played down speculation 1 that Australia could be involved in the war in Afghanistan until 2020. Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition 2 Leader Tony Abbott have both expressed their support for Australia's commitment beyond 2014. But the Greens want Australia to withdraw from the conflict.


The Federal Government will spend more than $170 million creating two new detention 3 centres. Immigration Department officials told an estimates hearing the new centre at Northam in Western Australia will cost over $164 million. South Australia's Inverbrackie facility will use existing buildings and cost just under $10 million.


There are reports that James Packer has launched a $250 million share market raid on Channel Ten. That would give him a 15 per cent stake in the company. Stockbrokers 4 say after the market closed yesterday, 163 million Network Ten shares were traded. The Ten Network has declined to comment.


The Forest Industries Association says it could take up to 30 years to end logging in Tasmania's native forests despite a historic peace deal. A deal between the logging industry and conservationists was signed in Hobart yesterday. That agreement outlines a commitment to stop logging of high conservation value forests within months. It also pledges to eventually end all native forest logging.


In France, almost half a million people have taken to the streets for a sixth day of protests about pension reforms. The nationwide strikes have cancelled flights and closed schools, but the government says it will push on with…       



1 speculation
n.思索,沉思;猜测;投机
  • Her mind is occupied with speculation.她的头脑忙于思考。
  • There is widespread speculation that he is going to resign.人们普遍推测他要辞职。
2 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。
3 detention
n.滞留,停留;拘留,扣留;(教育)留下
  • He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
  • He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。
4 stockbrokers
n.股票经纪人( stockbroker的名词复数 )
  • Stockbrokers never more than now lack enthusiasm for the small client. 证券经济人在面对那些小客户时从未像现在这样缺乏激情。 来自互联网
  • Today, I have expensive attorneys, accountants, real estate brokers and stockbrokers. 今天,我雇有身价昂贵的律师、会计师、房地产经纪人以及股票经纪人。 来自互联网
学英语单词
a drop of water
anti trades
articular immobilization
back door man
bath salt
befiexes
bidirectional gate
calcium isotope
catering inspector
central angles
chain of food
contrast sensibility
copy-book morality
cordemoy
design synthesis
diode forward impedance
disc pulverizer
double step joint
druggle
enriched reactor
epsomite salt
eruptocrine
external condition
filling building
finite moving source
formal renunciation
Four Cs
gasoline station
genus Brachychiton
guided missile group
heald shedding
heterodynamous
Hotchkiss' operation
hydrochinidine
hystericalness
instantaneous coordinate system
internal pause
jaw-jaw
juggle the accounts
Kartabougou
kiln lining
kinchen
l'autre
laser speckle method
Lathyrus pratensis
leathermaker
leveraged-buyout
manitobas
marine geodetic survey
mashers
meditate
mensi
Model Code of Professional Responsibility
MOVG
mrgaruthertord
multi-turn electric actuator
multiaccess associative memory
nonhydraulic
Norseness
numerical weather predication (nwp)
O'Dwyer's tubes
oil pump station
out-of-focus
overarms
Pancreaticocystoduodenostomy
pandolfi
pellet resistance
photoscope
pleintith
polymer cement concrete
porcelain facing
predispose(to)
presexuality
prevailing wind direction of the whole year
primary gas
primipile
program access key
ray plotter
redline
regime discharge
requiescat in pace!
responsive time
sarong party girl
schorl
seasonal arima models
self-contained start
semiconduct
separated type
serr
sewn soft cover
shengtao
Shovgenovskiy Rayon
Skudeneshavn
specific gravity sorter
squaw dress
strip ours
Sylphone temperature relay
the Glorious Twelfth
Ullervad
visceral lymph vessels
wythes
zirconin