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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Prime Minister Julia Gillard is expected to take a tougher approach to border protection when she announces her policy on asylum 1 seekers this week. Cabinet will today discuss the future of Sri Lankan asylum seekers who've been left in limbo 2 since May. The Government suspended processing of


their refugee claims but the measure expires on Thursday.


A Melbourne man could face 12 years in a Bali jail after he was caught using cocaine 3. Indonesian police said Angus McCaskill was found carrying several packets of cocaine in his wallet. He told reporters he made a silly mistake and he took the cocaine after getting drunk watching the soccer World Cup.


An Australian AIDS expert says the world is facing a rolling holocaust 4 because millions of sufferers are denied life-saving treatment. Bill Bowtell who helped draft Australia's policy on AIDS, says the global financial crisis has slowed an international response to the pandemic.


The owners and captain of a ship that spilled 270,000 litres of oil off Queensland will face court today. The Pacific Adventurer captain and his employer, Swire Shipping 5, are charged with disposing of oil in coastal 6 waters and failing to notify authorities. The spill caused a major clean-up of Queensland beaches in 2009.



1 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。
2 limbo
n.地狱的边缘;监狱
  • His life seemed stuck in limbo and he could not go forward and he could not go back.他的生活好像陷入了不知所措的境地,进退两难。
  • I didn't know whether my family was alive or dead.I felt as if I was in limbo.我不知道家人是生是死,感觉自己茫然无措。
3 cocaine
n.可卡因,古柯碱(用作局部麻醉剂)
  • That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。
  • Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。
4 holocaust
n.大破坏;大屠杀
  • The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。
  • Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.内贾德否认大屠杀,因为他像希特勒一样残忍。
5 shipping
n.船运(发货,运输,乘船)
  • We struck a bargain with an American shipping firm.我们和一家美国船运公司谈成了一笔生意。
  • There's a shipping charge of £5 added to the price.价格之外另加五英镑运输费。
6 coastal
adj.海岸的,沿海的,沿岸的
  • The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
  • This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。
学英语单词
accipitrine
Agua Negra, Paso del
amphitretids
antigenomic
antiwar
artificial pollination
atrial synchronized pacemaker
back-stroke
batting out device
biotroph
birch rods
bizarres
box-type oven
branch of custom house
breastbeam
caenogastropods
cardiophrenia
Chechen', Ostrov
citritase
closed yoke
cold night
compesce
conciding indicator
concomitant differential expression
credible contingency events
database set
die clamp
displacing liquid
disyntheme
double facer
duck grass
electric motor drawn channel scraper
fabric draw-off mechanism
flange-way
fulling agent
genus Glaux
glyparamide
halogeton glomeratuss
hamerow
hard-of-hearing
Hawaiian-type eruption
heaths
heli-skiing
hirudinoid
i-het
jaqs
kaltschmitt
Kobaltpyrit
ladera
laser warhead
lateral cyclic control
leather processor
lichen planus sclerosus et atrophicus
Lohtaja
metaphire houlleti
metropolitan science test
multiple earthed system
nonreviewing
notice receivable dishonoured
novismuth
object complements
ocellated crakes
oil-immersed
onsensible
outwarded
Paphiopedilum villosum
paragons
Phanerozonida
plp
primary menu
Pteracanthus botryanthus
re-adjusted
re-supply
red letter days
related-party
rotary-movement relay
safe overshoot
Salvage in Stages
seemen
self-insight
shoulder blade
Sieraków
Sinp'a-gun
slawdogs
sockette
structuration synthesis
Thermofor kiln
trailer tape
tub pair
tumorigenecities
ulnocarpal
unbounded medium
unrude
unsurrounded
useful/useless production
variation with repetition
Velislav
white pulp
wing finisher
wooden splash-dam
Y-contact
Yaquina Trough