澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-07-06

 Tobacco companies that breach¹ the Government’s planned plain packaging laws could face fines of up to $1 million. The Government will introduce the bill to Parliament today. And the tobacco industry is nonetheless threatening several legal challenges to that proposed legislation. Government, however, says it is confident that it can win any legal fight. 

 

A Western Australian farmer has decided² not to go ahead with the planned mass cattle cull³ today. Nico Botha says he has to shoot about 3,000 head of cattle because of the ban on live exports to Indonesia. He says he decided to postpone⁴ today’s cull because of all the media attention that was getting. 

 

Nearly 200 people have drowned when their boat caught fire on its way to Saudi Arabia. The boat was carrying refugees from Sudan. It had been at sea for four hours when the blaze broke out. Four people from Yemen who own the boat have now been arrested. 

 

An appeals court in the Netherlands has found the Dutch state is responsible for the deaths of three Muslim men in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre⁵. Dutch troops surrendered the men to Bosnian Serb troops when they overran the town and killed around 8,000 men and boys. The ruling now opens the way for families of those victims to attempt to sue for compensation. 

 

And Tiger Airways⁷ has stopped selling tickets online as doubts remain about when its planes will start flying again. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission had threatened legal action if the airway⁶ didn’t suspend those sales. The airline’s domestic flights have been grounded until Saturday because of safety and maintenance concerns. 

1 breach   

n.违反，不履行；破裂；vt.冲破，攻破

参考例句：

• We won't have any breach of discipline.我们不允许任何破坏纪律的现象。
• He was sued for breach of contract.他因不履行合同而被起诉。

2 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

3 cull   

v.拣选；剔除；n.拣出的东西；剔除

参考例句：

• It is usually good practice to cull the poorest prior to field planting.通常在实践上的好方法是在出圃栽植前挑出最弱的苗木。
• Laura was passing around photographs she'd culled from the albums at home.劳拉正在分发她从家里相册中挑选出的相片。

4 postpone   

v.延期，推迟

参考例句：

• I shall postpone making a decision till I learn full particulars.在未获悉详情之前我得从缓作出决定。
• She decided to postpone the converastion for that evening.她决定当天晚上把谈话搁一搁。

5 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！

6 airway   

n.空中航线，通风口

参考例句：

• Lay them on their side and ensure the airway is unobstructed.让他们侧躺着，并确保呼吸道畅通。
• There is a purple airway in London Airport.伦敦机场里有一条皇家专用飞机跑道。

7 AIRWAYS   

航空公司

参考例句：

• The giant jets that increasingly dominate the world's airways. 越来越称雄于世界航线的巨型喷气机。
• At one point the company bought from Nippon Airways a 727 jet. 有一次公司从日本航空公司买了一架727型喷气机。