澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-07-21

 Australia's arts community is paying tribute to well-known actor David Ngoombujarra who died on the weekend. The 44-year-old was found in a park in Fremantle on Sunday and was pronounced dead at Fremantle Hospital. He was best known for his roles in the films of Rabbit-Proof Fence, Australia and Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles. A member of the Stolen Generation, he won AFIs for his roles in Blackfellas, Black and White and The Circuit. 

 

The ABC has started work on a comedy mini-series called At Home With Julia about the Prime Minister's relationship with her de facto husband Tim Mathieson. The series stars Amanda Bishop¹ as Ms Gillard and Phil Lloyd as Mr Mathieson. Production on the four half-hour episodes begins this week, with the shows to air later this year. Ms Gillard says she's not had any input² into the series, but she considers Bishop to be very funny. 

 

And taxpayers³ in Victoria paid up to $650,000 for talk show host Oprah Winfrey to take 92 guests on a three-day tour of Melbourne. Receipts released under Freedom of Information laws show Oprah was farewell from Melbourne with the dinner costing more than $100,000. It's reported to have cost $5 million to bring over the talk show host and her audience. But tourism analysts⁴ say the exposure from the trip was more than worth the cost. 

 

And that's the latest in the arts and entertainment.

1 bishop   

n.主教，（国际象棋）象

参考例句：

• He was a bishop who was held in reverence by all.他是一位被大家都尊敬的主教。
• Two years after his death the bishop was canonised.主教逝世两年后被正式封为圣者。

2 input   

n.输入(物)；投入；vt.把(数据等)输入计算机

参考例句：

• I will forever be grateful for his considerable input.我将永远感激他的大量投入。
• All this information had to be input onto the computer.所有这些信息都必须输入计算机。

3 taxpayers   

纳税人，纳税的机构( taxpayer的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Finance for education comes from taxpayers. 教育经费来自纳税人。
• She was declaiming against the waste of the taxpayers' money. 她慷慨陈词猛烈抨击对纳税人金钱的浪费。

4 analysts   

分析家，化验员( analyst的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
• I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。