澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2015-07-14

 

 

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Virgin¹ and Jetstar start to fly thousands of stranded² passengers out of Bali after the safety threat from the volcanic³ ash cloud eased. Both airlines are putting on extra services and would use large aircrafts to help clear the back XXX.

“I can’t speak for the carriers, but we work to safety at absolute first priority. We would be putting on another two wide body aircrafts, each about 300 seats each, to get our customers back from Bali in the next 36, 48 hours”

 

An Australian woman has been jailed in the United Arab Emirates for writing bad words on social media. Jody Magi was arrested and jailed in Abu Dhabi after a court found her guilty in the offence. She was charged after allegedly taking a photograph of a car park in the disable parking bay and posing it on Facebook.

“No one is talking to me nor telling me what’s going on. I had been driving around, I think it is about 4 hours and put me in a male lock-up, and then they turned me away and no one knows what to do to me.”

“How were you feeling?”

“Am, pretty scared.” Jody Magi there

 

European stocks have soared after Greece's agree to exchange XXX use austerity measures in return for the third bailout. The deal requires Greece to approve tax risers, pension cuts and changes to employment laws by Wednesday. Greek Prime Minister Alex Zipper⁴ says the austerity measures will be tough.

“The deal is difficult” He says “But we've avoided financial afisiation??? and the collapse⁵ of financial system. We fought as hard as we could."

1 virgin   

n.处女，未婚女子；adj.未经使用的；未经开发的

参考例句：

• Have you ever been to a virgin forest?你去过原始森林吗？
• There are vast expanses of virgin land in the remote regions.在边远地区有大片大片未开垦的土地。

2 stranded   

a.搁浅的，进退两难的

参考例句：

• He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里， 身无分文，一筹莫展。
• I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市，既没有钱，又没有朋友。

3 volcanic   

adj.火山的；象火山的；由火山引起的

参考例句：

• There have been several volcanic eruptions this year.今年火山爆发了好几次。
• Volcanic activity has created thermal springs and boiling mud pools.火山活动产生了温泉和沸腾的泥浆池。

4 zipper   

n.拉链；v.拉上拉链

参考例句：

• The zipper is red.这条拉链是红色的。
• The zipper is a wonderful invention.拉链是个了不起的发明。

5 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。