时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2012年


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 That search is underway again for a 15-year-old boy who’s gone missing during a lifesaving competition on the Gold Coast. The teenage disappeared while competing in a board event late yesterday. Two years ago, 19-year-old Saxon Bird drowned at the same beach while competing in an Iron Man competition. 


 
The former AFL player Ben Cousins is facing drug charges in Perth. Cousins was arrested at Esperance Airport in Western Australia on Tuesday and charged with possessing methamphetamine with intent to sell or supply. He’ll face court in Perth on Monday. 
 
The Treasurer 1 Wayne Swan is foreshadowing a savage 2 budget. He says the government will have to cut spending even further to bring the budget back into surplus next financial year. He says some government programs will have to be scaled back or axed because of a continuing slump 3 in tax revenue. 
 
A siege in the Melbourne bayside suburb of Seaford has ended with a man being taken to hospital. The man how was wanted by police entered a factory at around three o’clock yesterday afternoon and refused to come out. When police eventually enter the factory, they found him semi-conscious. 
 
The gold cape 4 worn by Elizabeth Taylor in the 1963 film Cleopatra is about to go under the hammer in Dallas, Texas. The cape is expected to fetch around $20,000 at the auction 5. The academy award winning actress died in Los Angeles a year ago, aged 6 79.

1 treasurer
n.司库,财务主管
  • Mr. Smith was succeeded by Mrs.Jones as treasurer.琼斯夫人继史密斯先生任会计。
  • The treasurer was arrested for trying to manipulate the company's financial records.财务主管由于试图窜改公司财政帐目而被拘留。
2 savage
adj.野蛮的;凶恶的,残暴的;n.未开化的人
  • The poor man received a savage beating from the thugs.那可怜的人遭到暴徒的痛打。
  • He has a savage temper.他脾气粗暴。
3 slump
n.暴跌,意气消沉,(土地)下沉;vi.猛然掉落,坍塌,大幅度下跌
  • She is in a slump in her career.她处在事业的低谷。
  • Economists are forecasting a slump.经济学家们预言将发生经济衰退。
4 cape
n.海角,岬;披肩,短披风
  • I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
  • She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。
5 auction
n.拍卖;拍卖会;vt.拍卖
  • They've put the contents of their house up for auction.他们把房子里的东西全都拿去拍卖了。
  • They bought a new minibus with the proceeds from the auction.他们用拍卖得来的钱买了一辆新面包车。
6 aged
adj.年老的,陈年的
  • He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了,也老点了。
  • He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老,然而记忆力还好。
学英语单词
absorbing chemical
almandines
alternative frequency
announcing signal
antimony barium tartrate
antitragi
argininosuccinicaciduria
balenciagas
band amoured cable
bearing current
belt sag
Boehmist
bundler
carnets
cashierment
ceiling plank
characteristic space
cheese cement
combustion catalyst
commitment time
control chart method
conversational guidanc time sharing
Coulomb collisions
cumshaw
cyclobalanopsis salicina
datum vertex
default system control area
dionysius of halicarnassus
direction and revolution indicator
divergent double series
dotted lines
dwarf planet
dyeing-vat
Erycibe sinii
evaluation of project
Ficoidaceae
flat filled weld in front and back
full-length mirror
fulminating cap
hairpiece
hall-markeds
How pliers
hunter-killer carrier
hyperpluralisms
I/O management program
iron(ii) arsenate
lcpl
livestock nutrition
lt-etec
lucanias
membrane force
millimeter wave band
mortalist
mostro
multi-part virus
Mwewa
neoprene decking
non-repeated sampling
notched specimen
offuscant
overgilting
overtime bans
pentapropyl glucose
persian deities
port to port basis
power supply control
projection error
pyrometer fireend
radio paper
reference command number
release of tax lien
resonance condition
rhynchostegium fauriei
secretin tests
send out of the country under escort
sheep station
shuvit
side charged furnace
sight rod
silver mirror test
Sindang-ri
solar type star
starb
steerlings
subprefecture
supply interruption costs
T-immun
talent pipeline
tertane
top management abdication
training range
tschevkinit (chevkinite)
two-way cord
Veronica sutchuenensis
vicianin
viral hepatitis
wich
Wisconsin R.
wrong sleying
Xiao Chaihu Tang
yellow-eyed penguin
zigzag dislocation