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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A senior commando officer has told the ABC a decision to charge three Australian soldiers involved in the deaths of Afghan civilians 1 has incensed 2 his colleagues. Four children were among six people killed in an attack in February last year. The officer, who does not want to be identified, has also criticized the process for taking so long.


The Opposition 3 communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull says he is not interested in demolishing 4 the National Broadband Network. But Mr Turnbull said the cost of the NBN is too high. He made the comments during a debate with the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy.


In British politics, David Miliband won't be part of his brother's new shadow cabinet. The former foreign secretary says he wants to recharge his batteries. Mr Miliband narrowly lost the Labour leadership ballot 5 to his brother Ed.


Europeans are showing their anger at government budget cuts. About 50,000 protesters from 30 countries are demonstrating in Brussels. They say they shouldn't have to shoulder the financial burden for mistakes made by financial institutions.


US Middle East envoy 6 George Mitchell has met Israel's prime minister on his mission to keep the peace talks on track. Several compromises are on the table, including restricting West Bank construction to the main settlements. Mr Mitchell is due to meet the Palestinian president tomorrow.



1 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。
2 incensed
盛怒的
  • The decision incensed the workforce. 这个决定激怒了劳工大众。
  • They were incensed at the decision. 他们被这个决定激怒了。
3 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。
4 demolishing
v.摧毁( demolish的现在分词 );推翻;拆毁(尤指大建筑物);吃光
  • The machine was designed specially for demolishing old buildings. 这种机器是专为拆毁旧楼房而设计的。 来自《用法词典》
  • Conventional demolishing work would have caused considerable interruptions in traffic. 如果采用一般的拆除方法就要引起交通的严重中断。 来自辞典例句
5 ballot
n.(不记名)投票,投票总数,投票权;vi.投票
  • The members have demanded a ballot.会员们要求投票表决。
  • The union said they will ballot members on whether to strike.工会称他们将要求会员投票表决是否罢工。
6 envoy
n.使节,使者,代表,公使
  • Their envoy showed no sign of responding to our proposals.他们的代表对我方的提议毫无回应的迹象。
  • The government has not yet appointed an envoy to the area.政府尚未向这一地区派过外交官。
学英语单词
-archy
ac capacity
AI (artificial intelligence)
akyem
amensalism
aronne
asynchronous or asymmetric multi-processing
auction of promises
automatic triangulation
before image journalizing
Biedl's disease
bitumen burn
boat deck
bone-setter
brown-rot fungus
bucket-boom excavator
Carabelas
Carex heterolepis
Carsaig
centralises
cicatricles
closed exhaust
color circuit
concaveupward
congenital insanity
congregativeness
contact gap
Crateva nurvala
criss cross cultivation
cross chrominance
denominational party
discursivities
earth terminations
edins
electron-beam injected transistor amplifier
elephant trunk technique
elfish
equal-interval chord
equinoctial years
fabricated runner
feeder modulation
filching
fsfi
gas emission isovol
gurjum balsam oil
hand drying apparatus
hdbk
held-over
hiroshimas
hirtodrosophila paralatifrontata
hour of daylight
hydrogen-bonded
hypobetalipoproteinaemia
indirect contact
insoluble rust prevention
keratosis follicularis spinulosa
La Toja
long-descended
Markowitz moon camera
meet someone's approbation
mendelsohn's syndrome
metal powder grain
microtiter plate
multispectral sensor
net zone
non-distributable
nowitzki
nso
oil mist density sender
pair assembly
pale as as a ghost
Pariz
polonese
precision meters and instruments
prescapular fossae
private debt net
provide for sb
Rakah
ralph something up
raw pot glass
relivings
retrocerebral
rolling-diaphragm
samenward
Schmidt projection optics
shotokai
single-colours
special bad debts reserve
spread your wings
suckerdom
Sunny Bay
sweitenolide
tease up
third-reading
tob
vaginiferous
vibroslices
wood support
wrinkle rating
yeoman of the guard
zero drift coefficient of gravimeter