澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2015-04-17

 And leading the news this morning, the parents missing toddler William Tyrell have issued a fresh public appeal to find their son. The 3-year-old vanished from his grandmother’s home on the New South Wales mid-north coast seven months ago. Police believe he was abducted¹ and hold grave fears with his safety. William’s mother says the family is desperate to have him back.

 

“We need to know where he is and we need to know what happened to him because we can’t leave him forever like this. His sister can’t grow up even knowing what happened to her brother.”

 

The ongoing² stash³ over the GST is likely to come to a head at today’s Council of Australian Government’s Meeting in Canberra. Western Australia is pushing for a big share of GST which has been resisted by other states and territories. A row stretching like shadow of other issues, such as domestic violence and hospital funding.

 

Italy has asked the European Union for more help to deal with growing asylum⁴ seeker crisis. More than 40 people have drowned after another boat carrying asylum seekers from Libya sank off the Italian coast. Almost 10,000 people have been rescued and hundreds more have drowned while trying to cross the Mediterranean⁵ in recent days.

 

The search area for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 will be doubled if nothing is found in the current search zone by the end of the month. The plane with 239 people disappeared more than a year ago.

1 abducted   

劫持，诱拐( abduct的过去式和过去分词 )； 使（肢体等）外展

参考例句：

• Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
• The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。

2 ongoing   

adj.进行中的，前进的

参考例句：

• The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
• The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。

3 stash   

v.藏或贮存于一秘密处所；n.隐藏处

参考例句：

• Stash away both what you lost and gained,for life continues on.将得失深藏心底吧，为了那未来的生活。
• That's supposed to be in our private stash.这是我的私人珍藏。

4 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。

5 Mediterranean   

adj.地中海的；地中海沿岸的

参考例句：

• The houses are Mediterranean in character.这些房子都属地中海风格。
• Gibraltar is the key to the Mediterranean.直布罗陀是地中海的要冲。