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 United Nations says it held secret talks with the Taliban to discuss a truce 1. The revelation was made as Foreign Ministers gathered in London to map out a plan to hand security back over to Afghan forces. They've also unveiled a 550-million-dollar fund, aimed at luring 2 Taliban fighters into education, training in employment programs.


There's a new twist in the search for the missing millionaire Herman Rockefeller. Police raided a property in Melbourne's west overnight. They're not saying whether the case has been treated as a murder investigation 3.


Toyota is extending its recall of vehicles that may have a dangerously faulty accelerator. Seven-five thousand drivers in China are now being told to send their vehicles back to the carmaker because of a sticky accelerator that may cause cars to speed out of control. Similar recalls have already been issued in Europe and the US.


It seems taxpayers 4 are spending more on public hospitals but the quality of care hasn't improved much. A new report on government services shows spending on public hospitals increased six percent to 29 billion dollars in the 2007 financial year. Sixty-nine percent of emergency patients were seen within the recommended time.


And the American author J.D. Salinger has died. The acclaimed 5 writer who wrote “Catcher in the Rye” was 91.


We'll have more news later.



1 truce
n.休战,(争执,烦恼等的)缓和;v.以停战结束
  • The hot weather gave the old man a truce from rheumatism.热天使这位老人暂时免受风湿病之苦。
  • She had thought of flying out to breathe the fresh air in an interval of truce.她想跑出去呼吸一下休战期间的新鲜空气。
2 luring
吸引,引诱(lure的现在分词形式)
  • Cheese is very good for luring a mouse into a trap. 奶酪是引诱老鼠上钩的极好的东西。
  • Her training warned her of peril and of the wrong, subtle, mysterious, luring. 她的教养警告她:有危险,要出错儿,这是微妙、神秘而又诱人的。
3 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。
4 taxpayers
纳税人,纳税的机构( taxpayer的名词复数 )
  • Finance for education comes from taxpayers. 教育经费来自纳税人。
  • She was declaiming against the waste of the taxpayers' money. 她慷慨陈词猛烈抨击对纳税人金钱的浪费。
5 acclaimed
adj.受人欢迎的
  • They acclaimed him as the best writer of the year. 他们称赞他为当年的最佳作者。
  • Confuscius is acclaimed as a great thinker. 孔子被赞誉为伟大的思想家。
学英语单词
acelomate
alphamerically
amey
amisogamete
arachnoiditis of spinal cord
armenian highland (armenia plat.)
artificial indigo
auto edit
beamily
bearing temperature alarm
Borowe
breathing mixture
butterfly fillet
Cabot Hd.
caranx hipposs
Castillonnes
Cho Hung Finance Limited
computer education system
cotangential
delvest
digul r.
dog's-tooth course
donkey punched
Doppler shift effect
dounrey materials testing reactor
Dul-Tone
duodecimal digits
economic war
encoder mode
evrard
external gage
fat-free diet
Feinstein
fight back
fractional neutralization
fullhead
gelating relief image
glacial ice
go into compensation
Graham breads
gravitational mirage
Hamiltonian graph
heirophant
heterogenetic induction
high-velocity superheated-steam kiln
hopper-on-rails
ICRF-159
integrating multi-ramp converter
inverse quaternion
jennest
kennison
Limnorchis
lophiodont
low-temperature annealing
maepa
metrical photography
Netsilik
Nugaleed, Dooxo (Nugaleed Valley)
O-Demethylbuchenavianine
opiod
p'ing t'ing tien hsia chih wu
perdurably
phenylquinaldine
piston cooling pump
pound Scots
preexisting antibody
price stabilization
process-related
projective pencil of planes
promythium
proxygenes
puddysticks
punic-
qualudes
rail-motor
reduced-value entry
resources information system
retinosis
rod position detector coil
rollaway
rubber-bonded-to-meteal pad
scavenging air valve
sdsu
Segovia
spontaneous ovulation
stichochrome
strain regime
superagonists
syndactyly of finger tip
table mountain pine
toftmen
toripristone
triethylbismuth
two-hole directional coupler
uncatalogued file
vanillic diethylamide
visceral motor fiber
warm washing water
webutation
wetbird
wound cork
zealoter