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 Federal Opposition 1 is demanding the government inspect all homes insulated under its failed scheme. More than one million homes have been insulated under the program. But the government's paying for just 200,000 of them to be checked. The Opposition's warning home owners could be left without insurance if the work isn't checked.


The Thai prime minister says he won't cave in to demands that he dissolve Parliament. Tens of thousands of Red Shirts are calling for the government to step down and hold fresh elections.


A top US official has accused Israel of insulting the White House over plans to build 1,600 new homes in East Jerusalem. President Obama's Chief Advisor 2 David Axelrod has slammed Israel for hampering 3 Mid-East peace talks by making the announcement during Vice 4 President Joe Biden's tour of the region.


The weather bureau is closely monitoring Cyclone 5 Ului which passed the south of the Solomon Islands last night. The storm has been downgraded to a Category-4 system and isn't expected to hit the Queensland coast until late this week.


And Australian cricket vice-captain Michael Clarke is on his way back to New Zealand after a week of media scrutiny 6 over his breakup with Lara Bingle. He is heading to Wellington with other members of the Australian squad 7 for the two-Test series against New Zealand.


 


More news later.



1 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。
2 advisor
n.顾问,指导老师,劝告者
  • They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
  • The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。
3 hampering
妨碍,束缚,限制( hamper的现在分词 )
  • So fraud on cows and development aid is seriously hampering growth. 因此在牛问题上和发展补助上的诈骗严重阻碍了发展。
  • Short-termism, carbon-trading, disputing the science-are hampering the implementation of direct economically-led objectives. 短效主义,出售二氧化碳,进行科学辩论,这些都不利于实现以经济为主导的直接目标。
4 vice
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
5 cyclone
n.旋风,龙卷风
  • An exceptionally violent cyclone hit the town last night.昨晚异常猛烈的旋风吹袭了那个小镇。
  • The cyclone brought misery to thousands of people.旋风给成千上万的人带来苦难。
6 scrutiny
n.详细检查,仔细观察
  • His work looks all right,but it will not bear scrutiny.他的工作似乎很好,但是经不起仔细检查。
  • Few wives in their forties can weather such a scrutiny.很少年过四十的妻子经得起这么仔细的观察。
7 squad
n.班,小队,小团体;vt.把…编成班或小组
  • The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
  • A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。
学英语单词
above ground
acid resistant ceramics
actvity
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
air quality index
alternating current electric propulsion apparatus
altronic acid
analysis of variance component
arightness
armenian apostolic orthodox churches
asynchronous exit
atrovirens
autoreduction tacheometer
bicomponent filament yarn
bilge pump stud
blackfeet
blue print apparatus
bruyker
C.O. (commercial operation)
captain of the head
charring in pit
constant-level balloon
contact screw washer
crtical water content
data strategy description language
debit to individual account
declinometer
delayed fission neutron
depreciation policy
depth cue
Dionic
discerptibility
duelfer
ETK
exciting rush current
fan delta
fresh out
front axle beam
gang fighting
good shop
guffers
handbraked
hexahydrated
horsehair worms
hypoxic hypoxia
in spite of sb.'s teeth
know for
labate
laminated pearlite
landlopers
lap strake
lateral section
Le Chasseron
ligamenta capitis femoris
liquid measures
main memory space
make someone's life a hell
malecela
maximum-continuous rating
medicine boiler
neorationalism
network security component
non-interruptible supply
North Dell
northing line
o-fluoronitrobenzene
original calibration
palaelodid
parthenology
Phylloxera vitifoleae
Port twenty!
procedure call communication
product method
proserozym
pterosin
quarter circle orifice plate
rake-up ballast remover
rated power of electric motor
rheotan
rigid inflatable boat
sensory reception
siphon off the clean solution
sling dirt at
slurry separator
spreading angle of wedge tool
strumming
suer
Sulfadimethoxinum
sunspot minimum
ternary compound semiconductor
territorial subsoil
tilting machinery
transistor noise characteristic
Typhonium trifoliatum
unconditionally
uranium(vi) propoxide
value-added tax
vehiculates
vertical shaft development
vpl
weathered granite