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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In breaking news: a major earthquake in Haiti has prompted a tsunami 1 warning for parts of the Caribbean, including the Dominican Republic, Cuba and the Bahamas. There are reports the 7.3-magnitude quake destroyed a hospital. We will bring you more news as it comes to us. 


The Federal Government is insisting it hasn’t breached 2 Australia’s security by flying a group of Sri Lankan refugees here. The government transferred the four Tamils from Indonesia to detention 3 at Christmas Island after ASIO deemed they were a security risk. They’ve been refused visas to Australia and the Immigration Department is trying to find a third country to resettle them. 


The United States has angrily denied allegations that it was involved in a death of an Iranian nuclear scientist. The nuclear physics professor was killed when a bomb-rigged motorcycle blew up outside his home in Tehran. The Iranian government says an opposition 4 group operating under the direction of Israel and the United States was behind the murder. 


And residents of a village in Montenegro have been startled to find a hippopotamus 5 wandering their streets. Nikica was a resident of a private zoo, but it was flooded and she floated out with the water.


 


That’s the latest ABC News.



1 tsunami
n.海啸
  • Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
  • Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。
2 breached
攻破( breach的现在分词 ); 破坏,违反
  • These commitments have already been breached. 这些承诺已遭背弃。
  • Our tanks have breached the enemy defences. 我方坦克车突破了敌人的防线。
3 detention
n.滞留,停留;拘留,扣留;(教育)留下
  • He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
  • He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。
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 hippopotamus
n.河马
  • The children enjoyed watching the hippopotamus wallowing in the mud.孩子们真喜观看河马在泥中打滚。
  • A hippopotamus surfs the waves off the coast of Gabon.一头河马在加蓬的海岸附近冲浪。
学英语单词
1/2 medium caking coal
absolute manometer
acid-alkali regeneration
acquired susceptibility
adenylase
adjacent channel noise
algebraic linguistics
aliphatics
anaesthetically
auxiliary construction
babeffite (babefphite)
back-pressure well testing
bassinets
batarism
bernoulli's constant
biopsy
black auroras
body form
bouned
Camellia limonia
carzey
cavitated
cavort
ceramic oil
circumgyratetion
class schizomycetess
compromise verdicts
core lane
corrective delay
crateromys schadenbergi
credit terms
cumylic
customer-engagement
do a belly flop
Eqs
extraalimentary
fluted cutter
Fulham china
general mean
give ... up
gridleys
hcg (human chorionic gonadotropin)
hinnied
hoord
hydrorrhoea
hypotrachyna kingii
Johannson crystal geometry
kan chou
Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
kines
kinetic index
knee swell
lateral directional motion
local value
magnesium orthophosphate
mandrel holder
manpower economics
Mao-particle
mask oxygen inhalation
massifs
monoghan
morlock
multifunction component
multiple cause
nonauditory
notochordal vertebrate
o be joyful
optical birefringence
outs-of-place
parahematin
Pelling
pharmarecruiters
Philharmonia
Phyllidiidae
plate bearing test
pomadasys maculatus
pound board
precision spectrophotometry
predicted drift angle
profit sharing bond
quadrine
quality control division
railroad insurance rating
rate of discount
resedimentation
ringing relay
sacral splanchnic nerves
Samerts'khle Mt'a
scale decimal arithmetic
set at
spirted
standardism
steady-state velocity
stellar guidance
sulfhedryl
super-refining steel
twiceover
unau
unitary invariant
visceral mycosis of salmon
well born
Willet's clamp