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
accumulated rate
active absorption volume
aeronautical material
assortive
balloon seat
be calculated to
bereavement benefit
Bloomburg
blow-down rate
box seat
bronchial microscope
Burleigh
Bushimaie Kalagni
candystripe
Chamlang
cleaning table
cold-compacting tooling
Colorado-basin
congo gums
contact x-ray therapy
crash safety
deckzelle
diaminon
dielectricity
Diplopterygium longissimum
dithiohemiacetal
diving anoxia
electric spark machine tool
electrode chamber
emprison
end pane
euaugaptilus facilis
eurybiontic organism
fellingham
fermentations
floating computer
for my benefit
forerank
forex
fourth-generation phototypesetters
grammitis malaica tagawa
granulating screen
Guignols
gyrosigma tenuissimum
handle air blower
harassed
hepatorecurrence
Hockday
hookswitch
hydrostatic fuse
i-spend
information request
lacing eyes
laryngeal polypus
lectrice
lithic sandstone
local stress relief heat treatment
lowest water level
LWH
Malyy Amalat
maternal tree
megaatmosphere range
metaplastic anemia
moscow' rubislaw
narcisse
op30 operator panel
order Tubulidentata
overall rate equation
oxyrrhodin
parids
parser generator
patinous
pedersen
periplanatic
precises
presum-ably
primacy
puccinia thwaitesii
push rod seal
quantionic
radio sodium
rotational angular velocity of the earth
s hole
Sag Sag
sagecraft
segment manager
self-accusing guilt
shortwall
soluseptasine
spatial disparity
stress-relief loop
subaudio oscillator
swop
thiopyran
to a hair's breadth
towing method
TR-S-CAR
view on
wall sign
Wratten number
Y-linked gene
zona gale