澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2013-06-25

 An Indonesian people smuggler¹ has been caught on camera admiitting he was involved in a fatal boat voyage. The boat carring more than 200 people sank in June last year killing² up to 96 asylum³ sinkers. In the video obtained by the ABC, he boasts about paying police to ensure the boats can leave indonedia.

 

The whitehouse is accusing Beijing of deliberately⁴ allowing refugee of intelligence worker Edward Snowden to flee Hongkong. He says the incident has damaged US-China relations. Mr. Snowden is believed to still be in Moscow, and the US is pressuring Russia to hand him over. 

 

South Africa's president Jocob Zuma says Nelson Mandela remains⁵ in a critical condition. Mr. Zuma says Doctors are doing everything they can to make the former president comfortable. Family members including Mr.Mendela's former wife Winnie have been visiting him in hospital.

 

And Italian court has sentenced the country's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to seven years' jail, and has banned him from public office after having sex with an uder-aged prostitute. Mr. Berlusconi wasn't in court to hear the verdict and he will appeal the sentence. He's unluckily to go to jail because of his age and the length of time the appeals will take.

 

A state memorial for Hazel Hawke could be held in Sydney Opera House this afternoon. The ex-wife of former prime minister Bob Hawke died last month from complications of Alzheimer's disease.

 

1 smuggler   

n.走私者

参考例句：

• The smuggler is in prison tonight, awaiting extradition to Britain. 这名走私犯今晚在监狱，等待引渡到英国。
• The smuggler was finally obliged to inform against his boss. 那个走私犯最后不得不告发他的首领。

2 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。

3 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。

4 deliberately   

adv.审慎地；蓄意地；故意地

参考例句：

• The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
• They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。

5 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。