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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 Tens of thousands of protesters have again flooded the streets of Egypt’s main cities, demanding an end to Hosni Mubarak’s rule. The death toll 1 has now passed 100. And the Egyptian military is attempting to assert its authority, but the protesters are remaining defiant 2. Egypt’s main opposition 3 leader, Mohamed ElBaradei, has addressed protesters in Cairo, telling them “change is on its way”.


 
Ex-tropical cyclone 4 Anthony has brought gale-force winds and torrential rain to north Queensland’s coast. It crossed the coast late last night. Power has been cut to about 10,000 properties.
 
The Federal Government will start trying to sell the merits of its flood levy 5 to the crossbenchers today. Ministers will start talks with independent senator Nick Xenophon later this morning. Meetings with the other independents are also scheduled for later in the week.
 
An Indonesian court has raised the hopes of two members of the Bali Nine drug ring who are trying to escape the death penalty. Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran have made their final appeals against their death sentences. Fairfax is reporting this morning the panel of three judges has said the right to life must not be ignored, reduced or taken away.
 
And thousands of people have turned out in Tunisia for the return of a leading Islamic leader. Rached Ghannouchi has arrived in the capital Tunis after two decades in exile. He’d been facing charges of plotting against the state. And Mr Ghannouchi says he is not interested in running for political office. 

1 toll
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
2 defiant
adj.无礼的,挑战的
  • With a last defiant gesture,they sang a revolutionary song as they were led away to prison.他们被带走投入监狱时,仍以最后的反抗姿态唱起了一支革命歌曲。
  • He assumed a defiant attitude toward his employer.他对雇主采取挑衅的态度。
3 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。
4 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。
5 levy
n.征收税或其他款项,征收额
  • They levy a tax on him.他们向他征税。
  • A direct food levy was imposed by the local government.地方政府征收了食品税。
学英语单词
acefluranol
acorn disease
allograft cytotoxity
Apollo object
automatic let-back motion
BAPS
bastardlings
bilocular bladder
binch
blue-painteds
boothby-lovelace-bulbulian oxygen mask
bound wave-length
Burns stanza
cachectic diarrhea
canices
Canis dingo
car pass
cement additives
Cert Ed
chest-height diameterincrement
chicken loaf
Coleus carnosifolius
cooperative marketing of agricultural products
corelysis
corneal macula
dead works
dynamics of multibody systems
equivalent path
europrocephalus
expense assets
fast scarlet base
flown up
for a fee
frost shim
Geiger fomula
Gentry Bank
Gonahrān
Górażdże
hacksawing machine
in large part
instruction simulation
international broadcast relay
Itonididae
jeris
job morale
Johnston's Point
katangan
lariniaria argiopiformis
lightly-framed
magazu
melting prepreg
MQR (multiplier-quotient register)
multiposition control
negative infinity
neon arc Iamp
neon(element)
nfi
nickel plating brightener BE
non-profit making organization
nuclear powered satellite
O,O-dimethyldithiophosphoric acid
officinales
Old egg
one legged
original plant
overlay denture
parviflorum
pendulum rectifier
pereopod
phauda similis
planetary monsoon
policier
puang
quetans
Queyrat's erythroplasia
rabbit meat
retroduodenal arteries
roded
rule character set
scale inhibitor 401
schistocoelia
scientific model
secondary copy
selfsamer
shipping commission
single station type
skiascope
smokestack industry
splash into
stabilizer bracket
system residence disk
tabbouleh
Tongch'ǒn-gun
two hands military press
Unaós
uniform flight test analysis system
Venaco
Vsevolozhsk
water crane arm
webge gate valve
well versed
will ye , nill I