澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2013-04-25

 The spirit of the Anzacs is being commemorated¹ of right around the country this morning on the 98th anniversary of the landings at Gallipoli. The first of a series of dawn services has taken place at the cenotaph in Sydney, services have also been held in Canberra and Townsville where the prime minister has laid a wreath at the cenotaph.

 

Moving away from the Anzac commemorations, briefly² to bring you some other world news. Nearly 100 people have been killed and more than a thousand injured in a building collapse³ in Bangladesh. A frantic⁴ rescue operation is underway to pull survivors⁵ from the rubble⁶.

 

In Boston, thousands of mourners have attended a memorial service for a police officer killed during a hunt for the marathon bombing suspect. Twenty-six year Sean Collier worked on campus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was allegedly shot dead in his car by the Chechen brother suspected of the bombings.

 

A man has been remained in custody⁷ in Melbourne charged with murdering his parents. Thirty-five year old Ian David Thomas was arrested on Tuesday night, the bodies of Pauline and William Thomas were found in their home on the outskirts⁸ of Wangaratta in the state's northeast on Monday night.

 

And police are cheating the death of two women in Sydney's west as suspicious. Neighbours found the women's bodies in a house at Auburn just before ten o'clock last night.

1 commemorated   

v.纪念，庆祝( commemorate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Lincoln commemorated the soldiers killed in the battle in his address. 林肯在演说中表扬阵亡将士。 来自辞典例句
• You'll be commemorated for killing a spy, and be specially discharged. 你们每杀一个间谍将会被记录到特殊档案。 来自电影对白

2 briefly   

adv.简单地，简短地

参考例句：

• I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
• He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。

3 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

4 frantic   

adj.狂乱的，错乱的，激昂的

参考例句：

• I've had a frantic rush to get my work done.我急急忙忙地赶完工作。
• He made frantic dash for the departing train.他发疯似地冲向正开出的火车。

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

6 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。

7 custody   

n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留

参考例句：

• He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
• He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。

8 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。