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
Albenga
Amazonomachia
an abyss of disgrace
Andrada e Silva
Anjalankoski
Anstruther
antiporn
apparent vertical
autoschediastic
banana conveyor
Bernoulli constant
blastocephalon
brush binder
calpolli
camion
cedilanid-d
chorismites
closed cab
coefficient of equivalent
complex-marker
Compton, Karl Taylor
compulsory expatriation
configure terminal
coxodynia
design change recommendation
double cleftlip
drill unit
dry pitching
electrology
Elzogram
emotional infidelity
external economics
fichus
first upsetting die
Flores Men
Foeniculum vulgare Miller
for itself
frieze panel
generalized function theory
genetic stratigraphic unit
gibber plains
giudici
granting agency
Haemobartonella sciurii
hard aweather
helmetless
heterogeneous hydrogenation
ICLM
inella granicostata
interrupted undamped wave
joinder
jokaero
kidult
kitsukas
leaf spot of kaki
linea nigra
lissitzyn
lop-stick
Machilus microcarpa
magnetic deflection
Meinung
methylmercury(II)
minzu
motorcycle sidecar
multicolor digital plotter
nuclear excavation
Okmulgee County
olefinic
pao Brazil
papulous
parasitic insect
patriotism
pesante
Pharos of Alexandria
phylloxerae
prajna paramita
Pre Thmâ
presenc
put-through channel
r-rated movie
Ratebane
redundance code
resource pool
rot proofing finishing
rotary expander
samwells
scientific risk assessment
seasonal change
self-generations
smoothing filter
sniffer program
stable unit
tax payment by self assessment
technical analyst
Thales of Miletus
The devil takes the hindmost
then-all
torsimeters
total output value of agriculture
Ulmus changii
unipath control unit
unpromotable