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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BP will create a Twenty-billion-dollar compensation fund to pay damages claims arising from the worst oil spill in US history. The oil giant agreed to the demand at a White House meeting between US President Barack Obama and company executives. After the meeting BP apologized and announced that it would suspend dividend 1 payments for the rest of the year.


Queensland’s Crime and Misconduct Commission has found that investigations 3 into the death in custody 4 of Cameron Doomadgee were seriously fraud. The scathing 5 CMC report to be tabled in Queensland Parliament today was leaked to the Australian Newspaper and it found the original investigation 2 into the death in 2004 was biased 6 and failed to heed 7


basic police procedures.


A new report shows the proportion of people waiting for more than a year for elective surgery is falling. The Australian hospital statistics report shows the number of people waiting longer than 12 months fell from five per cent in 2004 to three per cent in 2009.


South-eastern Australia has been battered 8 by gale 9 force storms overnight. Victoria bore the brunt of the wild weather with winds reaching 133 kilometres an hour in mountain ranges and 80


Ks in Melbourne.


And in Europe, flash flooding in southern France has killed 15 people and left several others missing. Emergency services are working to help hundreds of people trapped in vehicles, houses and on rooftops.



1 dividend
n.红利,股息;回报,效益
  • The company was forced to pass its dividend.该公司被迫到期不分红。
  • The first quarter dividend has been increased by nearly 4 per cent.第一季度的股息增长了近 4%。
2 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
3 investigations
(正式的)调查( investigation的名词复数 ); 侦查; 科学研究; 学术研究
  • His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查,但没有发现什么。
  • He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。
4 custody
n.监护,照看,羁押,拘留
  • He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
  • He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后,他立即被押了起来。
5 scathing
adj.(言词、文章)严厉的,尖刻的;不留情的adv.严厉地,尖刻地v.伤害,损害(尤指使之枯萎)( scathe的现在分词)
  • a scathing attack on the new management 针对新的管理层的猛烈抨击
  • Her speech was a scathing indictment of the government's record on crime. 她的演讲强烈指责了政府在犯罪问题上的表现。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 biased
a.有偏见的
  • a school biased towards music and art 一所偏重音乐和艺术的学校
  • The Methods: They employed were heavily biased in the gentry's favour. 他们采用的方法严重偏袒中上阶级。
7 heed
v.注意,留意;n.注意,留心
  • You must take heed of what he has told.你要注意他所告诉的事。
  • For the first time he had to pay heed to his appearance.这是他第一次非得注意自己的外表不可了。
8 battered
adj.磨损的;v.连续猛击;磨损
  • He drove up in a battered old car.他开着一辆又老又破的旧车。
  • The world was brutally battered but it survived.这个世界遭受了惨重的创伤,但它还是生存下来了。
9 gale
n.大风,强风,一阵闹声(尤指笑声等)
  • We got our roof blown off in the gale last night.昨夜的大风把我们的房顶给掀掉了。
  • According to the weather forecast,there will be a gale tomorrow.据气象台预报,明天有大风。
学英语单词
airborne geophysical survey
assimilates
associated electrical apparatus
at one scoop
at this time of day
aztec ruins national monument
basic link unit
Bertaud
blur-image
board chair
bounded measure of probability
brown note
buckhurst
cambists
canciones
cephalhaematomata
cirrocumulus lenticularis
comparator circuit
concave-convex game
conductivity tester
connate teeth
consistent fat
container dropside trailer
continuous service output
count-key-data device
craniotonometer
cream
cunnilingists
depocid
dichromatic vision
dielectrical strength
diffusing panel
dissolved
dog coupling
dots per inch
drilling cuttings
dry-docks
durangite
edge knot
family-law
flexible-hose pump
four-legged bridge converters
fucugetine(garcinia spicata)
gasometry
genous
ground someone in something
halt input
heat size
hill drop plate
Indian medicine
internal hemorrhage
international money order
intersatellites communications technology
isopodan
Kanarase-yama
lap-joint
lavalliere
Linosa, I.di
live wires
megalocorneas
mixed core
monerasable storage
Mortimer's Cross
mulukhiyya
musaks
namers
Ogasa
osseins
outstares
panstroside
phospho-creatine
proactive maintenance
ptpase
refrein
Resistac
retarder released
room mining
rotundifoliums
seeker
self imaging
semi-mounted plough
seminal cells
Siberian anticyclone
social culture
steering by rack and pinion
straight parallel vanation
stud mount
supratrochanteric
synchronous phase advancer
transhyoid
turret ring gear
tythance
undergoing
universal surface gage
urinal stall
vertiginousness
virilizing syndrome
von Recklinghausen's test
waffle
wet-type dust collector
world floristic divisions
Yirga Ch'efē