时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2011年


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 A series of grim warnings about the global economy have caused more sharp falls on world markets overnight. Shares in New York, Europe and Asia have all suffered heavy losses. European markets were down around 5 per cent. Wall Street closed around 3.5 per cent weaker. The Australian dollar has also slipped even further overnight. It's now buying around 97 US cents. 


 
The man accused of Sydney's neck bomb hoax 1 is flying to Los Angeles on his way back to Australia. Paul Peters will be met in LA by two New South Wales police officers who will escort him back to Sydney. He's due to arrive in Australia tomorrow. 
 
The Health Services Union has set up an independent review of its credit card policy and other financial practices. It will be headed by the president of the New South Wales Bar Association Bernie Coles QC. The union's national president Michael Williamson is taking a leave of absence during the inquiry 2. He's denied he misused 3 union funds. 
 
America's most senior military officer has accused Pakistan's spy agency of supporting a militant 4 group responsible for last week's attack on the US embassy in Kabul. The Chairman of the Joint 5 Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen has told Congress that militant Haqqani group is virtually an arm of Pakistan's intelligence agency. Pakistani officials are denying any links. 
 
And Greece has been crippled by a 24-hour transport strike over the government's tough austerity measures.

1 hoax
v.欺骗,哄骗,愚弄;n.愚弄人,恶作剧
  • They were the victims of a cruel hoax.他们是一个残忍恶作剧的受害者。
  • They hoax him out of his money.他们骗去他的钱。
2 inquiry
n.打听,询问,调查,查问
  • Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
  • The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。
3 misused
v.使用…不当( misuse的过去式和过去分词 );把…派作不正当的用途;虐待;滥用
  • He misused his dog shamefully. 他可耻地虐待自己的狗。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He had grossly misused his power. 他严重滥用职权。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 militant
adj.激进的,好斗的;n.激进分子,斗士
  • Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
  • He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。
5 joint
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
学英语单词
ab ovo usque ad mala
abdominal flesh
abrazine
acridid
Alikazgan
altyns
angiokeratoma corporis
atomic hydrogen arc weld
automatic distributor
battle of Ypres
bon-
Bush,George W.
care-takers
cesium iron alum
chevaline
circuit-breaker failure protection
coachers
Coco the Clown
cocretion
combined air force
compound modifier
cosor
coxal lymph gland
dahs
declaration macro instruction
dental curve
direct reacting system
DLPT
economic state
eluvial ore deposit
endosalpingioma
fatwood
fiber glass laminates
fiscal restraint measure
fluhr
gear-tooth rounding machine
Giemsa band
glutathionreductase
governor droop
grain washer
heads draws
horizontal structure equations
HPRO
hyphodontia pilaecystidiata
ingrow
intermediate shaft
kinescope recording machine
Lake of the Woods
long-hauling
matrimonial offence
melilite basalt
methyl nitrate
Mezahab
muscle poison
nea (national education association)
nfl.com
nickel plating brightener BE
non-synchronous network
North Balabac Str.
North Wiltshire
odonterism
oil production headquarter
oktibbehite
on someone's neck
on the wrong side of thirty
pectoral sandpipers
pip-pips
polynice
public land
quadrantal symmetry
qualified steel
Ralph Vaughan Williams
ranz-des-vaches
reacting capacity
recess grinding
reclusiam
retail price index of industrial products
right fly
rocons
scrutores
sectional arrangement drawing
Sena Dynasty
Shift the helm!
sill splicing
solitary custody
space-efficient one-pass translation
spinning dive
stagnating research programme
stemapoda
strychnize
subjective expected utility model
sweeping magnet
telarche
tenure
Trifluoromethylhydrothiazide
tumoricide
twinspots
untransumed
Urban Dictionary Cover-Up
vyivgly
Water Filtration Systems
youf