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
active galactic nucleus (agn)
affile
alloy wire
arbitrationist
average distance
backstitch
bacteremias
balaphone
better still
binary search
bioanthropology
bright young thing
business contract
butinazocine
Cheshmeh Kabūd
christopher walken
Cleanthes
communications network processor
Consolato delmare
contact manufacturing
correlation-measuring instrument
corticosteroid acne
couch commerce
data marker
diffraction rings
diggery
dry dock wall
Dutch clover
eryptotic
extended bayes decision rule
febres
fit-shaced
full immersive VR
Gestafortin
glazing without frame
grease-belt separation
Hadeninae
hang of a
hootest
hypophysoma
inclined revolving cylinder sifter
industrial territorial complex
infusion pump
interaction of activity
inverse mixture interference
Jagdalpur
jamellah
Kaymanachikha
lacemaker
Laheycourt
leg men
lere
lock-on-after-launch (loal) seeker
lycoperdon muscorum
marked feature
materials in transit
meganopteron semicirculata
meteorological tower
Minquadale
multi-phase interferometer
Nyakasasa
of-ten
ommatidium
ovario-epilepsy
oxicracking
Phorias
PRC - People's Republic of China
proadjectives
prominent vertebra
read ... face
regosol
rutabaga plant
saccharosuria
saturation extract
saurognathous
Scott's trick
self-correction code
self-locking brake
shear bolt
sort-out
standard adjustment
stereoscopic parallax apparatus
Stony Creek
stratabounds
successive difference
tank shell
technical controls
Tephthol
terrestrial magnetic guidance
tetrahydrofurfuryl acrylate
thoracolaparoscopic
time related running balance
Trantoin
treacly
tubermycin
Two blacks do not make a white.
unibrows
unsanctifications
veratrizes
vitrified bonding agent
wowp
zacharek