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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New South Wales police will today decide just how to continue the search for missing six-year-old Kiesha Abrahams. Last night, nearly 200 people held a candle-lit vigil outside the little girl's home in the Sydney suburb of Hebersham. Detectives interviewed Kiesha's parents and stepfather last night and her mother Kristi has told News Limited that she had nothing to do with her daughter's disappearance 1.


Former prime minister Paul Keating has called for tougher privacy laws. Speaking at the University of Melbourne last night, Mr Keating backed an Australian Law Reform Commission proposal for tough sanctions on companies that invaded privacy. He said some media organizations were too driven by gossip and they should meet higher ethical 2 standards.


Thousands of people forced into camps by Pakistan's floods are still waiting to receive food and water. The worst floods in 80 years have affected 3 more than three million people, killed 1,500 and have washed away entire villages. The Pakistani army says its aid operations are reaching stranded 4 victims, but some survivors 5 say the government has abandoned them.


Iranian officials are denying reports that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been the target of an assassination 6 attempt. An Iranian website said an explosive device was thrown at the convoy 7 in the western city of Hamedan, but the website later removed that story. Earlier reports have said the president survived the attack and the suspect was arrested at the scene. Officials now say the blast was caused by a firework.



1 disappearance
n.消失,消散,失踪
  • He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.他难以说明她为什么不见了。
  • Her disappearance gave rise to the wildest rumours.她失踪一事引起了各种流言蜚语。
2 ethical
adj.伦理的,道德的,合乎道德的
  • It is necessary to get the youth to have a high ethical concept.必须使青年具有高度的道德观念。
  • It was a debate which aroused fervent ethical arguments.那是一场引发强烈的伦理道德争论的辩论。
3 affected
adj.不自然的,假装的
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
4 stranded
a.搁浅的,进退两难的
  • He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里, 身无分文,一筹莫展。
  • I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市,既没有钱,又没有朋友。
5 survivors
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
6 assassination
n.暗杀;暗杀事件
  • The assassination of the president brought matters to a head.总统遭暗杀使事态到了严重关头。
  • Lincoln's assassination in 1865 shocked the whole nation.1865年,林肯遇刺事件震惊全美国。
7 convoy
vt.护送,护卫,护航;n.护送;护送队
  • The convoy was snowed up on the main road.护送队被大雪困在干路上了。
  • Warships will accompany the convoy across the Atlantic.战舰将护送该船队过大西洋。
学英语单词
ac dialing
ad gustum
aeroplanktophyte
API hydrometer
begold
biochemical mechanisms
bird band
blastodermic disk
burgus
candy man
Cardamine violifolia
cardiomeasurator
cardioplasty
citizenship status
close-up picture
cloudscape
common wealth
companion star
cystogenia
daulte
descending to
die fledermaus
double-line tunnel
driven antenna
Edwin Landseer
Ehrlich's reagent
elastic weight
English reel
ENPEP (Energy and Power Evaluation Programme)
Ewaso Ngiri R.
filial duties
flexible gearing
foch
fungies
gacaca
Gadamer, Hans-Georg
gauze and lenno weave
Gibson, Josh(ua)
green development
greyish-browns
grinding spark
handlists
Hook's coupling
hyperbola of higher order
imagery assessment
instantaneous center of rotation
inter-item relationship
isopropyl thiogalactoside
Kiou Kan
knutzen
leboyer methods
leopard bone
lose efficacy
lycopodiophytes
mesocolon (or colic mesentery)
mocha coffee
morsal
moundville
multilayer motherboard
nada daiquiris
nagilactone
nineteenness
no-par-value share
Nonruminantia
Nämdö
oak leather
old rose
oral declaration
pagical
Paul Heyse
pitch face
plant orders
ploughing disc harrow
precalibrated reference standard
protofascism
Rayleigh disc
residue number system
roapiness
rod end
Saung
shifting clause
snake type strander
stabats
stair-step model
stomachaches
surplus in consolidation
synthal
toxinoses
trapping level
tumbling crusher
umbrella hood
unfunded debts
unmodulated keyed continunous wave
untroubling
uranous oxysulfite
vapor-phase refining
vasectomization
wars of american independence
wave-mechanical perturbation theory
wigglesworth
yesterseason