澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2014-09-16

 Leading our news today, world leaders have been meeting in Paris to work out a strategy to fight Islamic state militants¹ in Iraq. Thirty countries including ten Arab nations have now agreed to provide support. Australia will begin deploying² forces and fight jets to the mid-east within days. 

 

A Sydney woman is facing several charges, including dangerous driving after a fatal crash in Sydney’s south. The woman’s car plowed³ through a group of people at a bus stop, and into a farm theatre coro gram yesterday killing⁴ a 16-year-old girl and injuring two others.

 

Hopes are fading this morning of finding alive a three-year-old boy who’s been missing for more than four days on the New South Wales mid-north coast. Up to 300 people have now joined the search for William Tearo who disappeared from his grandmother’s home at Kendal on Friday. 

 

British Prime Minister David Cameron has made an impassioned plea to Scottish voters not to abandon the UK which has days to go before the independence vote. Mr. Cameron has warned that the “yes” vote would endanger Scottish pensions and the economy. 

 

“Independence would not be a trial separation. It would be a painful divorce. So this is our message to the people of Scotland. We want you to stay.”

1 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

2 deploying   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的现在分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Provides support for developing and deploying distributed, component-based applications. 为开发和部署基于组件的分布式应用程序提供支持。
• Advertisement, publishing, repair, and install-on-demand are all available when deploying your application. 在部署应用程序时提供公布、发布、修复和即需即装功能。

3 plowed   

v.耕( plow的过去式和过去分词 )；犁耕；费力穿过

参考例句：

• They plowed nearly 100,000 acres of virgin moorland. 他们犁了将近10万英亩未开垦的高沼地。 来自辞典例句
• He plowed the land and then sowed the seeds. 他先翻土，然后播种。 来自辞典例句

4 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。