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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Catastrophic fire warnings continue in the south and east of Australia today as temperatures soar into the mid 1 40s. There is a total fire ban in much of Victoria and southern New South Wales. Commuters in Melbourne are facing more delays as the extreme heat causes power failures and cancellation 2 of trains. The city Mel sweltered through its hottest night ever with temperatures at midnight still at 37 degrees. 


Police are questioning a man over a fatal stabbing in Sydney's west last night. Investigators 3 say a man in his 40s was killed during a dispute at a unit block in Belmore. In another case, a 17-year-old boy was stabbed on a bus at Ambarvale while a teenage girl was stabbed during a fight at Surry Hills. 


Chinese officials say they've wrapped up their investigation 4 into the former Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu and are now waiting for prosecutors 5 to decide whether his case will go to trial. 


And tombs found in Egypt have shed new light on the lives of the men who built the pyramids. Archaeologists say the graves suggest the pyramids were built by free workers and not slaves. They ate meals regularly, worked in three-month shifts and were given the honour of being buried  in mud brick tombs. 


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1 mid
adj.中央的,中间的
  • Our mid-term exam is pending.我们就要期中考试了。
  • He switched over to teaching in mid-career.他在而立之年转入教学工作。
2 cancellation
n.删除,取消
  • Heavy seas can cause cancellation of ferry services.海上风浪太大,可能须要取消渡轮服务。
  • Her cancellation of her trip to Paris upset our plan.她取消了巴黎之行打乱了我们的计划。
3 investigators
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 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。
5 prosecutors
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 ); 告发人; 起诉人; 公诉人
  • In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方,检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
  • You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
学英语单词
absolute-value device
adenosine'5-monophosphate
aging resistance
argail sheep
bare charge
Bari-Sol process
bell glass
bonded permanent magnet
Buko-zan
child-oriented
compensation temperature
computer arbiter
concrete coating
consumption of fixed capital
converter flux
country quotas
crime of counterrevolutionary homicide
dataran
Dichlor-Stapinor
distilled water preservation
district lines
double-dog daring
draught center
dubedat
Dytiki Ellas, Periochi
Edsele
elevator liner
endoerythrocytic
f. o. d.
Far Eastern bills
first sintering
fistular
freeze plugging
full-tosses
globular macromolecule
god-fearing
Gutron
Haag theorem
hands off control
hank reel
heat flutter
hollow sea
Ikla
incredibleness
ingratiate oneself with
interconnected generating station
interface coupler
land-fill
light fuse
Link Access Procedure-Balanced
liquid-helium
LOPHORATES
maphead
material failure
membrane electrochemistry
milled board
moisture-proof case
multi-knife chipper
navy ocean surveillance satellite (noss)
neonatal streptoccoccal infection
net transfer to fund
network of roads
ornithorium
parys
pasher
petroleum products tax
phonetic transcriptions
phyllanthus reticulatus poir.
pitted tracheae
place under restraint
prittle-prattles
process document
psittacus erithacuss
ring laser instrument
rocket armament
routineandresearchpolarizingmicroscope
screw moorings
Sequoia Wellingtonia
share-owner
sinking fund provision
soft elm
sorting sieve
sputtering rate
Stepanovo
sum of phasor
superior ganglion
symmetric beauty of body
taken his time
teacher bird
teleprinter diagram
tenants-at-will
terrain matching
thermo fuse
tofuburgers
total crown
ultralounges
upsampler
white matter hyperintensities (wmh)
Wilson's snipe
winkelmann
wireless relay broadcasting