澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2012-12-07

 New South Wales police are mourning the death of a respected colleague who was attacked as he tried to stop a neighbourhood dispute. Detective inspector¹ Bryson Anderson was fatally wounded just moments after arriving at the Oakville property in Sydney's northwest yesterday afternoon. A 19-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman are now being questioned.

 

 

 

Mourners have been asked to wear red today at the Sunshine Coast funeral of murdered teenager Daniel Morcombe. It's the colour of the shirt he was wearing when he was abducted² on his way to do some Christmas shopping exactly nine years ago today.

 

 

 

Residents on the outskirts³ of Dably on Queensland’s Darling Downs are on high bushfire alert this morning.  Crews have spent the night battling four bushfires southwest of the town. One fire has burnt out 21,000 hectares of state forest in just 24 hours.

 

 

 

Tanks and armoured vehicles are outside Cairo's presidential palace after yet another night of clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi. At least five people have died and nearly 400 others have been injured. And the president has just addressed the nation on an Egyptian TV. He says a meeting will be held tomorrow to resolve various leadership issues.

 

 

 

And in Philippines, rescuers are searching through thick mud, rubble⁴ and fallen trees for survivors⁵ of typhoon Bopha. It's been two days since flashfloods and mudslides killed nearly 500 people. Hundreds are still missing, while more than 200,000 remain homeless.

1 inspector   

n.检查员，监察员，视察员

参考例句：

• The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
• The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。

2 abducted   

劫持，诱拐( abduct的过去式和过去分词 )； 使（肢体等）外展

参考例句：

• Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
• The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。

3 outskirts   

n.郊外，郊区

参考例句：

• Our car broke down on the outskirts of the city.我们的汽车在市郊出了故障。
• They mostly live on the outskirts of a town.他们大多住在近郊。

4 rubble   

n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾

参考例句：

• After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
• After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。

5 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者