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
a quad
actual transformation ratio of a voltage transformer
agreement of election of forum
air invasion
anthropocentricity
antipitching
Arsenotellurite
aseismic area
augmentor wing
auxin precursor
B.P.E.
bampfyldes
barrel-drain
be engaged with
beef stew
beslaving
bicker with
big five
Blankville
blue sensitivity
bombyx mori
came from
chaotic field
Cheleritrin
chloro ethylene
chronic threshold dose
come to a pretty pass
Compsoganthus
consulate general
contagiosa sycosis
Corynebacterium lilium
cultrivorous
customary profitability analysis
dalriadas
data virtualization
dimethyl butene
donought
DRSS
eat the bread of affliction
encoded multiplex spectrometer
fadoes
fagaric acid
far-infrared interferometer
feed efficiency
float type level controller
food radurization
geoica lucifuga
Guelfs
Handauk
hanwood
highway greening
Hittitology
hydrostatic injection
identification of botanical origin
laminae cinerea
laser scanning microscope
lateral leveling
Latin Averroism
liboi
limit orbit
lubricogobius exiguus
majdi
mineral wealth
nonborderline
nonlabials
not do a hand's turn
octahedronlike molecule
oracle rdb
osseous labyrinths
oval-round-oval method
pachychoroidopathy
Parrot's of the newborn atrophy
peties
phase null detector
Phyllodistomum
pilot survey
pre-subject
preparational
price of commodity
prionitis angusta
re-leasing
Salses
scalariform-reticulate thickening
scrap dock
selenomethionine
selling goods at reduced prices
Sigging
sillies
silver sulfocyanide
slotted envelope network
subjugating
system generation process
take springs out from
Tetrastigma cauliflorum
to-back
trophic heat coefficient
tsetse disease
uncovered movement
usda-aphis
Verdi Inlet
white cheese polypore
Whitleyism