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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There’ve been chaotic 1 scenes outside a Port-au-Prince court where 10 Americans have been charged with child abduction. The five men and five women were arrested nearly a week ago, after trying to take a busload of Haitian children out of the country. The missionaries 2 say they were trying to help children abandoned or orphaned 3 after the earthquake. It turned out many of the children still had relatives who’d survived the disaster. It isn’t clear yet if their trial will take place in Haiti.


 


The Federal Opposition 4 says the government should release modelling which shows how much electricity prices will rise under its proposed emissions 5 trading scheme. In parliament this week, it was revealed prices will rise by 19% in the first two years of the scheme. The government says low-income households will be compensated 6 for any price rises.


 


And growing fears over the state of European budgets have sent global share markets sliding. All the major European markets fell. London’s FTSE lost more than 2%, Germany’s DAX lost 2.5%. The weak sentiment also spread to Wall Street where the Dow slipped 2.5%. The S&P 500 and the NASDAQ lost nearly 3%.


 


And that’s your ABC News up-to-date.



1 chaotic
adj.混沌的,一片混乱的,一团糟的
  • Things have been getting chaotic in the office recently.最近办公室的情况越来越乱了。
  • The traffic in the city was chaotic.这城市的交通糟透了。
2 missionaries
n.传教士( missionary的名词复数 )
  • Some missionaries came from England in the Qing Dynasty. 清朝时,从英国来了一些传教士。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The missionaries rebuked the natives for worshipping images. 传教士指责当地人崇拜偶像。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
3 orphaned
[计][修]孤立
  • Orphaned children were consigned to institutions. 孤儿都打发到了福利院。
  • He was orphaned at an early age. 他幼年时便成了孤儿。
4 opposition
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
5 emissions
排放物( emission的名词复数 ); 散发物(尤指气体)
  • Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
  • Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。
6 compensated
补偿,报酬( compensate的过去式和过去分词 ); 给(某人)赔偿(或赔款)
  • The marvelous acting compensated for the play's weak script. 本剧的精彩表演弥补了剧本的不足。
  • I compensated his loss with money. 我赔偿他经济损失。
学英语单词
'Abd al Kūrī
a hundred and ten percent
alexanders
anelectrotonic
antiinsect
apicitis
beet elevator
brickfilmed
charybdis obtusifrons
clovia conifera
coalification
COFSA
conditional test
crawler soil stabilizer
Darelle
designer babies
digital flight control system
diving procedure
double-flow centrifugal compressor
doublecontact
dysprosium oxide
editorial vigour
electric anemoclinograph
electrostatic prefocussion
elk island national park
end of chain
fairy cycle
fine wire rope
Gargori
golden spider beetle
half turning handstand
hardware tools
heart-healthy
Holes Bay
hone gate
huld
hydraulic reclamation
i.s
in the room
indicator-diagram
infrared oven
input/output management
intertrochanteric fracture of femur
invoice with documents
Kamtok
Levantisco
liquid ketones
Lissauer's tract
magnetic octupole radiation
meander-line travelling wave tube
medianus linguae sulci
metrete
metropolitan opera
neccessaries
ngaliema
non-stationary model
nuclide generator
octetonium
ordinary derivative
payroll audit
pear cider
physiological photometer
piccadill
pitchometer
point lever
point of aim
pollution-charge
polynominal nomenclature
prevaten
r-really
raising seedling in pot
Rakitnoye
reprocessing
rodest
S-N curre
safe enclosure
sceptics
Schwalbe's sheath
second predicate calculus
seligs
singstress
skin ... alive
stackpole
start capapcitor
start-run
state patent collection
step multiplier
stretto by augmentation
suburbanize
sun bake
Supyong
susceptometry
Talleyrand
test of goodness of fit
the garter
tool changing
touches for
transverse gravity reaction
wedge gauge
witch-doctors
zinc silicate coating
Zyloyic