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
a disaster area
Adiaphorites
aligning bearing
archaeobotanical
armstead
atomic-fuel
bachelorette
Banlin
baseball computer program
bintley
bittar
borshch
bu ngem (abu nujaym)
bulged blading
busy hour crosstalk and noise
butling
chittamwood
cokar-nut
communicatingly
continuamente
controlling shareholders
detain
differential draft
Digitora
drop-box
duck belting
dude food
dysmenorrhea gingivitis
Easter Egger
easy of belief
ecosystem function
epston
evolatine
excessive numbers
exit statement
finished inventory
fissured fracture
fitness-testing
gaolering
geodetic precession
Geoglobus
glue cooker
hay baling
help in
hendrik frensch verwoerds
hushaby
hydrogen peroxides
hyperscale computing
injusto
insulated electrode
intracerebral
isophots
Ligamentum collaterale ulnare
lime squash
literary null hypothesis
localized print suppression
macro definition library
managerial control principle
megadynes
miniaturists
mixed Pu-U oxide
monomeri
morner
New York curb exchange
nuffing
oaty
one-of-us
oriented phase
Orleanais
pearlwort
power-seeker
pressure filters
progenitalis
real audit
recoopering
rent-collectors
rib-eyer
ring-width index
scolecithricella tropica
sedentary (sessile) benthos
sedimentary stratum (pl. sedimentary strata)
sesquibenihidiol
setting in
shalal
side-and-face cutter
signal lens
sir anthony philip hopkinss
sizzla
soil binding nature
ST_military-and-armed-forces_the-armed-forces-generally
strike a bargain with someone
sulfaclozine
sweetmixes
tereter
Tropidia angulosa
unbeautifulness
upper balcony
us a-
vernier tachometer
Verschaffeltia
wallender
wrestlers