澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2013-04-05

 A senior government adviser¹ on asylum² seekers is demanding the removal of children from Manus Island's processing centre. Refugee advocate Pairs Aristotle was part of the panel of experts who recommended the return to offshore³ processing. He says the panel was explicit⁴ that safeguards be put in place to protect asylum seekers, but he says that's simply not happening.

 

The man accused of murdering Jill Meagher will appear in court again today, two weeks ahead of schedule. Adrian Bayley will be required to enter pleas to charges he raped⁵ and murdered the 29-year-old ABC staffer last year.

 

A British man has been jailed for life for killing⁶ six of his children by setting fire to the family home. Mick Philpott had planned to rescue the children and blamed the fire on a former girlfriend, but the revenge plot went tragically⁷ wrong. Philpott's wife and a family friend have been sentenced to 17 years in jail for conspiring⁸ with him.

 

Australia will lobby China to put more pressure on North Korea to end the current standoff. The Prime Minister Julia Gillard leaves today to head a diplomatic mission to China. Developing stronger economic ties is very high on the agenda.

 

And guests attending a dinner of high-profile business  and community leaders have had to run a gauntlet of protestors in Melbourne. About 100 demonstrators clashed with police, but there were no arrests.Inside,  media baron⁹ Rupert Murdoch addressed the 70th anniversary dinner of the conservative think tank--the Institute of Public Affairs.

1 adviser   

n.劝告者，顾问

参考例句：

• They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
• Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。

2 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。

3 offshore   

adj.海面的，吹向海面的；adv.向海面

参考例句：

• A big program of oil exploration has begun offshore.一个大规模的石油勘探计划正在近海展开。
• A gentle current carried them slowly offshore.和缓的潮流慢慢地把他们带离了海岸。

4 explicit   

adj.详述的，明确的；坦率的；显然的

参考例句：

• She was quite explicit about why she left.她对自己离去的原因直言不讳。
• He avoids the explicit answer to us.他避免给我们明确的回答。

5 raped   

v.以暴力夺取，强夺( rape的过去式和过去分词 )；强奸

参考例句：

• A young woman was brutally raped in her own home. 一名年轻女子在自己家中惨遭强暴。 来自辞典例句
• We got stick together, or we will be having our women raped. 我们得团结一致，不然我们的妻女就会遭到蹂躏。 来自辞典例句

6 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

7 tragically   

adv. 悲剧地，悲惨地

参考例句：

• Their daughter was tragically killed in a road accident. 他们的女儿不幸死于车祸。
• Her father died tragically in a car crash. 她父亲在一场车祸中惨死。

8 conspiring   

密谋( conspire的现在分词 )； 搞阴谋； （事件等）巧合； 共同导致

参考例句：

• They were accused of conspiring against the king. 他们被指控阴谋反对国王。
• John Brown and his associates were tried for conspiring to overthrow the slave states. 约翰·布朗和他的合伙者们由于密谋推翻实行奴隶制度的美国各州而被审讯。

9 baron   

n.男爵；(商业界等)巨头，大王

参考例句：

• Henry Ford was an automobile baron.亨利·福特是一位汽车业巨头。
• The baron lived in a strong castle.男爵住在一座坚固的城堡中。