澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-05-27

 World leaders are celebrating the arrest of Ratko Mladic, the former commander of Bosnian Serb forces. He’s wanted for the massacre¹ of 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica during 1995 as well as for the long siege of Sarajevo. He was found living under an assumed name in a village near Belgrade. 

 

Dock workers will vote this morning to cut short their week-long waterfront dispute that’s crippled ports in Sydney, Brisbane and Fremantle. The Maritime² Union says concerns from rural exporters have prompted it to lift those bans. 

 

An email naming and shaming Malcolm Turnbull for not turning up for some parliamentary votes has left some senior Liberals squirming. It’s reignited tensions between Mr Turnbull and his leader Tony Abbott. In an uncomfortable doorstop, Treasury³ Spokesman Joe Hockey denied there was a kerfuffle. 

 

A special report in The Economist⁴ magazine describes Australian politics as a “non-stop Punch and Judy show”. The less-than-flattering profile called “No Worries” describes the debate over asylum⁵ seekers as “hysterical stuff”. It says the current crop of Australian politicians couldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding. But the report says there is some talent in our political ranks including Malcolm Turnbull and Labor⁶ Minister Greg Combet. 

 

A suicide car bomb has killed at least 24 people and wounded another 45 in north-west Pakistan. The blast targeted a police station in the town of Hangu. The Taliban has taken responsibility and warned bigger attacks are to come as payback for Osama Bin⁷ Laden’s death. 

1 massacre   

n.残杀，大屠杀；v.残杀，集体屠杀

参考例句：

• There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中，这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
• If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀，大屠杀就有可能再次发生！

2 maritime   

adj.海的，海事的，航海的，近海的，沿海的

参考例句：

• Many maritime people are fishermen.许多居于海滨的人是渔夫。
• The temperature change in winter is less in maritime areas.冬季沿海的温差较小。

3 treasury   

n.宝库；国库，金库；文库

参考例句：

• The Treasury was opposed in principle to the proposals.财政部原则上反对这些提案。
• This book is a treasury of useful information.这本书是有价值的信息宝库。

4 economist   

n.经济学家，经济专家，节俭的人

参考例句：

• He cast a professional economist's eyes on the problem.他以经济学行家的眼光审视这个问题。
• He's an economist who thinks he knows all the answers.他是个经济学家，自以为什么都懂。

5 asylum   

n.避难所，庇护所，避难

参考例句：

• The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
• Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。

6 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

7 bin   

n.箱柜；vt.放入箱内；[计算机] DOS文件名:二进制目标文件

参考例句：

• He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
• He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。