澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-12-09

 European Union leaders are preparing for a key summit in Brussels where they’ll try to find a way to save the debt-wracked euro. The leaders of France and Germany have made dramatic appeals for support in their bid to fix the EU's debt crisis. The French President Nicolas Sarkozy is warning that the risk of disintegration¹ in Europe has never been greater.

 

The Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has dismissed a report that's found the National Broadband Network could be anti-competitive. The Productivity Commission is warning that the company could be in breach² of the principle of competitive neutrality. That's because non-commercial benefits that may be generated by the NBN are still to be determined³.

 

All big four banks have finally relented and promised to pass on the Reserve Bank's interest rate cut in full. Westpac and the Commonwealth⁴ Bank have joined the ANZ and NAB in making the quarter of percentage point cut. Customers won't benefit though until later this month.

 

Fugitive⁵ Malcolm Naden is still on the run in New South Wales. Police have been hunting the 38-year-old murder suspect, who's also thought to have shot a police officer in bushland near Tamworth.

 

And the former governor-general Sir Zelman Cowen has died at the age of 92 in Melbourne. He was appointed to the post of governor-general by Malcolm Fraser in 1977. Sir Zelman is remembered for restoring faith in the office in the wake of Sir John Kerr's dismissal of the Whitlam government.

1 disintegration   

n.分散，解体

参考例句：

• This defeat led to the disintegration of the empire.这次战败道致了帝国的瓦解。
• The incident has hastened the disintegration of the club.这一事件加速了该俱乐部的解体。

2 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。

3 determined   

adj.坚定的；有决心的

参考例句：

• I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
• He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。

4 commonwealth   

n.共和国，联邦，共同体

参考例句：

• He is the chairman of the commonwealth of artists.他是艺术家协会的主席。
• Most of the members of the Commonwealth are nonwhite.英联邦的许多成员国不是白人国家。

5 fugitive   

adj.逃亡的，易逝的；n.逃犯，逃亡者

参考例句：

• The police were able to deduce where the fugitive was hiding.警方成功地推断出那逃亡者躲藏的地方。
• The fugitive is believed to be headed for the border.逃犯被认为在向国境线逃窜。