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If you work at one of your country’s embassies or consulates, be prepared to receive strange requests for assistance. Like the one from an Australian man in Thailand who wanted to borrow money from the embassy in Bangkok to pay a local prostitute. And he wasn’t the only one with the bizarre plea for help as Julie Peacock reports.
Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told Australians that their consular staff are not there to pay hotel bills, to lend you a laptop or to provide you with the office space in the embassy. Among the other examples offered by officials was the case of a man who approached the Australian embassy in Bangkok and asked for the loan to help pay a Thai prostitute. Foreign affairs staff say such requests are common at that embassy. The government is now considering charging Australians for any consular help they receive.
Julie Peacock.
If the current climate pattern continues, this year will be the warmest around the world since records began. That’s according to the latest estimates from the world meteorological organization announced at the UN Climate Conference in Lima. For more of this, I’ve been speaking to our environment correspondent.
The figures are for the first ten months of this year and it shows the year is tracking in one of the very hottest years on record. If we continue with a warm November and a warm December, then we will have the hottest year on record. And that will make, and I think this is more interesting because you know, years can be warmer or cooler, but the general trend is what’s important here. And that will make 14 of the 15 hottest years on record from the 21st century. And the only other one in that is 1998. So all of the hottest years since 1998. That is really what’s remarkable.
So it’s all about the trend.
It’s all about the trend. And it’s the trend that gives climate meteorologists so much confidence to say we can not explain this trend unless we take into account man-made green house gases. That’s why they are so confident to say that humans are driving up with temperatures. They can’t be sure how much we are responsible but they can be sure that we are at least partly responsible and they make their predictions based on that.
And they are linking the trend to what kind of phenomena that we’re seeing around the world?
They are linking the trend to increasing temperatures and the increasing temperatures in turn lead to weather phenomena. So this year apparently, we have had exceptionally high ocean temperatures.
詞匯解析
respond
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
v.回答；響應(yīng)；反應(yīng)；反應(yīng)靈敏；反響
n.[建]壁聯(lián)；[宗]應(yīng)唱圣歌
參考例句
用作動(dòng)詞 (v.)
I invited her to dinner but she did not respond.
我請(qǐng)她吃晚飯，但她未作回答。
The professor lectured with a beaming countenance, but the students didn't respond much, only agreeing with what he said.
教授講得眉飛色舞，學(xué)生們卻沒有太大的反響，只是隨聲應(yīng)和。
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remains
難度：5星基本詞匯，屬常用1000詞
英漢解釋
n.剩余物；遺跡；遺體
參考例句
用作名詞 (n.)
After the wheat crop has been gathered, many farmers burn the remains and plough the ash into the soil, so as to enrich it.
小麥?zhǔn)崭钔瓿珊螅r(nóng)夫們把剩余物燒掉，然后用犁把灰埋入地里，使土地更肥沃。
Choi's remains true today for cremation.
崔真實(shí)的遺體今天進(jìn)行火葬。
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cooperate
難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞
英漢解釋
vi.合作；協(xié)力；配合
參考例句
用作不及物動(dòng)詞 (vi.)
I advise you not to cooperate with that deceitful businessman.
我建議你不要和那個(gè)不誠實(shí)的商人合作。
If they can cooperate with each other, everything should run smoothly.
如果你們能互相配合，一切都會(huì)順利的。
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persist
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
v.堅(jiān)持；執(zhí)意；繼續(xù)；持續(xù)
參考例句
用作動(dòng)詞 (v.)
They persist with the agricultural reform, despite opposition from the farmers.
他們不顧農(nóng)民反對(duì),仍繼續(xù)進(jìn)行農(nóng)業(yè)改革。
The cold weather will persist for the rest of the week.
這種寒冷的天氣將持續(xù)到本周末。
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refuge
難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞
英漢解釋
n.避難；避難所；庇護(hù)
v.庇護(hù)；避難
參考例句
用作名詞 (n.)
They took refuge in a cave yesterday.
他們昨天是在一個(gè)洞里避難的。
用作動(dòng)詞 (v.)
Drug traffickers refuged in these border areas.
毒品販子在這些邊界地區(qū)躲避。
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alarm
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
n.警報(bào)；警報(bào)器；驚恐
vt.警告；使驚恐；向 ... 報(bào)警
參考例句
用作名詞 (n.)
The proceedings were interrupted by the fire alarm.
會(huì)議的進(jìn)程被火災(zāi)警報(bào)打斷了。
用作及物動(dòng)詞 (vt.)
Alarm everyone quickly because the house is full of smoke.
快警告大家,屋子理都是煙。
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entertain
難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞
英漢解釋
v.娛樂；使有興趣；招待；考慮；抱有；容納
參考例句
用作動(dòng)詞 (v.)
We were all entertained by his humorous stories.
他的幽默故事使我們大家都很開心。
The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.
人類的靈魂是能夠容納一切的，它毫不偏袒地接受互相對(duì)立的感情和互相矛盾的意見。
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