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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The Duchess of York has been caught on camera offering to sell access to her husband Prince Andrew. The News of the World says Sarah Ferguson was filmed by one of its reporters posing as a businessman. And it appears that she accepts 40,000 US dollars in cash. The paper says, Prince Andrew knew nothing about the deal with more than half a million pounds.


A witness at the centre of a corruption 1 investigation 2 has alleged 3 that a Reserve Bank subsidiary was willing to supply prostitutes and pay bribes 5 to win banknote supply contracts. The allegation surfaced in the special investigation by Four Corners and The Age newspaper. It's found that a middleman hired by Securency International said he intended to bribe 4 a central bank governor from an Asian country.


A report on Australia's education system says teachers want an overhaul 6 of the performance evaluation 7 process. The Grattan Institute report says most teachers surveyed believed that the existing evaluation process doesn't improve teaching in Australian schools.


And lawyers for the Bushfires Royal Commission will this week attack the Victorian Government over its handling of the Black Saturday fires. A leaked lawyers’ submission 8 accuses the Government of “substantial policy failure” that placed “at least some of those who died at great risk”.


(It’s) found that at least 19 people have been killed and more than 70 injured when a train derailed in a mountainous area in eastern China. State media says a landslide 9 damaged the tracks causing several carriages to derail and overturn in Jiangxi province.



1 corruption
n.腐败,堕落,贪污
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
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 alleged
a.被指控的,嫌疑的
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
4 bribe
n.贿赂;v.向…行贿,买通
  • He tried to bribe the policeman not to arrest him.他企图贿赂警察不逮捕他。
  • He resolutely refused their bribe.他坚决不接受他们的贿赂。
5 bribes
n.贿赂( bribe的名词复数 );向(某人)行贿,贿赂v.贿赂( bribe的第三人称单数 );向(某人)行贿,贿赂
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • corrupt officials accepting bribes 接受贿赂的贪官污吏
6 overhaul
v./n.大修,仔细检查
  • Master Worker Wang is responsible for the overhaul of this grinder.王师傅主修这台磨床。
  • It is generally appreciated that the rail network needs a complete overhaul.众所周知,铁路系统需要大检修。
7 evaluation
n.估价,评价;赋值
  • I attempted an honest evaluation of my own life.我试图如实地评价我自己的一生。
  • The new scheme is still under evaluation.新方案还在评估阶段。
8 submission
n.服从,投降;温顺,谦虚;提出
  • The defeated general showed his submission by giving up his sword.战败将军缴剑表示投降。
  • No enemy can frighten us into submission.任何敌人的恐吓都不能使我们屈服。
9 landslide
n.(竞选中)压倒多数的选票;一面倒的胜利
  • Our candidate is predicated to win by a landslide.我们的候选人被预言将以绝对优势取胜。
  • An electoral landslide put the Labour Party into power in 1945.1945年工党以压倒多数的胜利当选执政。
学英语单词
accumulated net loss
ajmers
angas range
antipredation
art houses
bet coupling link (looped coupling link)
biovarial
brassie
bridge doffing motion
Cameroidea
ceramic oil
chrysil rubber
Clevelander
closed ash-pit
closed career system
compression index
conciergeries
copunctual
core image dump
cow in milk
cruisiest
dandois
Delphene
dependency needs
destruction fires
dimethyl nitrite amine
drive someone round the bend
economical maturity
entire margins of the leaflets
Euphorbia nematocypha
european organization for quality
Exploret Axion
exulceratio
fade to white
fault plate
fouling rate
fragment of tissue
freight elevator
gear pair with in-tersecting axes
give sb to understand that
holding force
homotopic chain-mapping
hydraulic descaling system
hydrogen-ion concentration
Hyperotreti
infantile amaurotic familial idiocy
insect repellant
iron-Melanterite
Ivan Asen II
jus naturae
Kansas neck-blister
localizes
lupinid
manganese bath method
marmadyne
matriarchism
mesognathic
monopolistic imperfection
multicast DNS
normotriglyceridemia
odometer
oil atomization
peg back
pick-resistant lock
plow disc
podospora multipilosa
position welding
pressure twin
pressurizing stand
price pressure
quasi-market
real object
resisting power
roll on return pass
run rusty
SAPONG
self-dual code
shanin
sharkling
shault
simplifier
split-tank oscillator
Stockholm
stream ice
suicidalness
Sulzheim
superseniors
szent
tanuras
tehri garhwal
television synchronizing signal generator
theo-mythology
threaded fittings
ultrashort wave transmitter
unary operation
unicellulate
variable ratio reinforcement
very same
vision comparison
voice ID
william harrison hayss
Zitronensauresirup