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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World leaders have agreed to secure all vulnerable nuclear materials around the globe within four years in a bid to thwart 1 any terrorists. Delegates from 47 nations meeting at the nuclear security summit in Washington, say they’ll share information and skills in forensics and law enforcement to stop illicit 2 nuclear trafficking. On the sidelines of the summit, the US and Russia have agreed to a deal to eliminate excess weapons-grade plutonium from their defense 3 programs.


 


Environment inspectors 4 are heading to an island of central Queensland where oil has washed ashore 5. Authorities suspect the oil is from the Chinese coal carrier, the Shen Neng 1 which ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef on Easter Saturday.


 


Also in the news, immigration officials on Christmas Island are getting ready for the arrival of another 100 asylum 6 seekers. The island's detention 7 facilities are already stretched beyond capacity. And the island’s also been inundated 8 with the flood of extra immigration and police officers.


 


Long queues have formed at Poland's presidential palace, where people are paying their respects to the late President and First Lady who died in a plane crash last weekend.


 


And Britain's Tories have launched their election manifesto 9, promising 10 to cut bureaucracy and hand back power to the people.



1 thwart
v.阻挠,妨碍,反对;adj.横(断的)
  • We must thwart his malevolent schemes.我们决不能让他的恶毒阴谋得逞。
  • I don't think that will thwart our purposes.我认为那不会使我们的目的受到挫折。
2 illicit
adj.非法的,禁止的,不正当的
  • He had an illicit association with Jane.他和简曾有过不正当关系。
  • Seizures of illicit drugs have increased by 30% this year.今年违禁药品的扣押增长了30%。
3 defense
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
4 inspectors
n.检查员( inspector的名词复数 );(英国公共汽车或火车上的)查票员;(警察)巡官;检阅官
  • They got into the school in the guise of inspectors. 他们假装成视察员进了学校。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Inspectors checked that there was adequate ventilation. 检查员已检查过,通风良好。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 ashore
adv.在(向)岸上,上岸
  • The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前,孩子们就上岸了。
  • He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。
6 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。
7 detention
n.滞留,停留;拘留,扣留;(教育)留下
  • He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
  • He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。
8 inundated
v.淹没( inundate的过去式和过去分词 );(洪水般地)涌来;充满;给予或交予(太多事物)使难以应付
  • We have been inundated with offers of help. 主动援助多得使我们应接不暇。
  • We have been inundated with every bit of information imaginable. 凡是想得到的各种各样的信息潮水般地向我们涌来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
9 manifesto
n.宣言,声明
  • I was involved in the preparation of Labour's manifesto.我参与了工党宣言的起草工作。
  • His manifesto promised measures to protect them.他在宣言里保证要为他们采取保护措施。
10 promising
adj.有希望的,有前途的
  • The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
  • We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。
学英语单词
acanthis flammea
actionuranium series
ad vitam
adjacent plate
anallatic lens
ane
annual average temperature
antenna tilt error
Aougoundou, L.
audio compressors
Baroghil Pass
bell rock (inchcape rock)
biometric reader
Brahmany bull
breaking down stand
Calophyllum changii
Capitoline Museums
carolare (italy)
carree
chain type potato lifter
cold end corrosion
collaborative-filtering
control rod drive package
controlled work
counter-evolution
crack initiation
curly-leafed
cystic ameloblastoma
deboosted
dibutyl xanthogen disulfide
differential treatment
diod.
division of responsibility
drospirenone
duct cancer
Egana
external subroutine name
fissocantharis taiwana
fulcral
fusarium subglutinans
glockners
gorditas
gotta-have-it
gray cast-iron brake shoe
harby
heat pump drier
here-today
hirudinal
income from penalties
intertuberal diameter
knock ... out
landammann
Leonhardt system
limiting point of sequence
luminance efficiency
manus valga
marble figure coating
Maria Callas
me-and
medicant
Mentba spicata L.
methyl para-cresol
miscellaneous service charges
molecular mechanism
Morikawa
nailpolish
nematic alignment
network analogy
non-nationals
nonwalking
optical transition
Oswald Mosley
Pasteur, Louis
perovskite
pigeon-hearted
poliotelium hyalospora(sawaea)mains
pornulate
pressurizing and drain valve
preverts
priority queue
radar telescope
relative luminosity factor
rememorized
river water
rolling stabilization
roof pergola
self-rising
self-timers
statement of changes in working capital
steam-roll
tanzie
time slip
tooth error
total air-fuel ratio
trans-Golgi-network
twin-deck vessel
two-high pull-over mill
unfishiness
urgent meteorological danger report
video equalizer
weak force
wheelmounted