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
ampllifier in
aortic bodies
attenuation-to-crosstalk ratio
autospiror
barcoes
budget line
cantoral staff
cbeyond
centre-of-pressure coefficient
certification
champing
chilled to the marrow
course-grain
creeping spike rushes
decision split
deep rotor-bar
delay assignment
dryass
East Indian coral tree
Elatine hydropiper
electric pneumatic switch
energy-absorbing bumper system
escape ladder
external center
FAMOS memory
first-moment matrix
font attributes
forest survey
gazongas
genus cancers
go against the stomach
goniatitic
grapetree
grassroots press
have no memory of
high shear grinding
hongkong post
hyperbolical zone
hypnobirthing
hypoid bevel wheel
IED (instrument engineering diagram)
instantiating an object
inter-retinal
intra-parties
isotwistane
kanatas
karoline
Kendall's terminology
lay cold
Ljubija
Loudes
Macropanax
Malpighiaceae
microcyst
micturition desire
mobile money
multi-wavelength distance meter
narbonus vetch
neck-scarves
number of wagon unloaded
numerical tensor
oka-river
optical fiber repeaters
Osirian
partys
passenger cargo boat
peak hour line
pilot selector switch
Piper nudibaccatum
press-button sprinkling system
principle of maximum multiplicity
quintains
raha
re import
reappraisers
relational schema
retributes
revolving drum
sansculottism
scale picture
sea chanteys
shallow basin
sitar player
spot-kick
sternauli
store requisition
suboccipital approach
swimmer's conjunctivitis
telemetering receiving instruments
traditional decoration
Trapezus
two-to-one principle
ultrafine enameled wire
universal keyboard
Ust-Bolsheretsk
Venetian needle lace
visual impairment
wall cake
Wong Shek
Xylotox
zinc carbolate