澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2014-07-08

 The High Court will hear an application today to stop more than 150 asylum¹ seekers being sent back to Sri Lanka. The court granted a temporary adjunction last night. The asylum seekers are believed to return home and refugee advocates are arguing that they should be processed in Australia.

 

This is the first time Australian court to x considerate the situation where government is actively² handed over people at risk to their prosecutors³, to very serious act, people’s lives are at stake. 

 

George New House said Mr. Tony Abbott and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe will sign a historic free trade agreement today. Mr. Abe rafting campus last night for a free day visit. He will address a join sitting parliament later today.

 

A man will face court today charged with the stabbing murder with another man in a crowded shopping center in Sydney’s west. Police say the pair had been arguing at the Westfield center in Parramatta yesterday when one of the men stabbed the other in the chest.

 

And a woman today will face extradition⁴ hearing in Melbourne this morning over the suspicious deaths of two elderly women at a nursing home on the New South Welsh north coast. Police have arrested a woman at Seaspray in eastern Victoria yesterday. 

 

And Tasmania’s Governor Peter Underwood has died. He was 76. Mr. Underwood suffered a significant setback⁵ after a surgery to remove a kidney tumor⁶ last month.

1 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。

2 actively   

adv.积极地，勤奋地

参考例句：

• During this period all the students were actively participating.在这节课中所有的学生都积极参加。
• We are actively intervening to settle a quarrel.我们正在积极调解争执。

3 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

4 extradition   

n.引渡（逃犯）

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。
• He began to trouble concerning the extradition laws.他开始费尽心思地去想关于引渡法的问题。

5 setback   

n.退步，挫折，挫败

参考例句：

• Since that time there has never been any setback in his career.从那时起他在事业上一直没有遇到周折。
• She views every minor setback as a disaster.她把每个较小的挫折都看成重大灾难。

6 tumor   

n.（肿）瘤，肿块(英)tumour

参考例句：

• He was died of a malignant tumor.他死于恶性肿瘤。
• The surgeons irradiated the tumor.外科医生用X射线照射那个肿瘤。