澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 澳大利亚疫情继续恶化 墨尔本强制戴口罩

Melburnians have been told it will be mandatory¹ to wear face masks when going out in public from this Thursday, as the city struggles to deal with a burgeoning² number of new COVID-19 outbreaks — notably³ in aged⁴ care facilities. Most Victorian school students will also return to remote learning today, after an extended mid-year break.

墨尔本民众接到通知，从周四开始，外出前往公共场合时必须佩戴口罩，因为该市正在努力应对迅速增加的新冠肺炎新增病例——老年护理机构的疫情尤为严重。在延长的年中假期结束后，大多数维多利亚州学生将于今天回归远程学习。

Health authorities in New South Wales have issued an urgent warning for people who visited the Batemans Bay soldiers club last week to immediately get COVID-19 test. Eight confirmed cases have now been linked to that club. Despite pledging to keep New South Wales open for business, the state government is now advising all residents to wear face masks and avoid public transport and social gatherings⁵ where possible.

新南威尔士州卫生部门发出紧急警告，要求上周去过贝特曼斯湾士兵俱乐部的民众立即接受新冠肺炎检测。目前有8例确诊病例与该俱乐部有关。尽管新州政府承诺保持该州的商业开放，但州政府现在建议所有居民佩戴口罩，尽可能避免公共交通和社交集会。

The federal government will continue to back unsecured loans for small businesses for another 9 months. It's also expanding the scheme to offer similar guarantees for loans of up to one million dollars for small and medium-sized businesses wanting to expand or adapt during the COVID-19 outbreak. The commonwealth⁶ has already guaranteed 50 per cent of new, unsecured loans for more than 15-thousand businesses.

澳大利亚联邦政府将继续为小企业提供9个月的无担保贷款。政府还将扩大这项计划，为希望在新冠肺炎疫情期间扩张或适应的中小型企业提供高达100万澳元的类似担保贷款。联邦政府已经为超过1.5万家企业提供了50%的无担保新贷款。

An aboriginal⁷ community near Uluru says it has support to close the tourist destination if interstate flights resume at the nearby airport. The Mutitjulu Community Aboriginal Corporation says restarting direct flights from Victoria and New South Wales to Ayers Rock Airport next month would pose an unacceptable health risk to local residents.

乌鲁鲁附近的一个土著社区表示，如果附近机场的州际航班恢复，他们会支持关闭旅游目的地。慕提朱鲁社区土著委员会表示，下个月恢复维州和新州至艾尔斯岩机场的直航航班将对当地居民造成不可接受的健康风险。

1 mandatory   

adj.命令的；强制的；义务的；n.受托者

参考例句：

• It's mandatory to pay taxes.缴税是义务性的。
• There is no mandatory paid annual leave in the U.S.美国没有强制带薪年假。

2 burgeoning   

adj.迅速成长的，迅速发展的v.发芽，抽枝( burgeon的现在分词 )；迅速发展；发（芽），抽（枝）

参考例句：

• Our company's business is burgeoning now. 我们公司的业务现在发展很迅速。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• These efforts were insufficient to contain the burgeoning crisis. 这些努力不足以抑制迅速扩散的危机。 来自辞典例句

3 notably   

adv.值得注意地，显著地，尤其地，特别地

参考例句：

• Many students were absent,notably the monitor.许多学生缺席，特别是连班长也没来。
• A notably short,silver-haired man,he plays basketball with his staff several times a week.他个子明显较为矮小，一头银发，每周都会和他的员工一起打几次篮球。

4 aged   

adj.年老的，陈年的

参考例句：

• He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了，也老点了。
• He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老，然而记忆力还好。

5 gatherings   

聚集( gathering的名词复数 )； 收集； 采集； 搜集

参考例句：

• His conduct at social gatherings created a lot of comment. 他在社交聚会上的表现引起许多闲话。
• During one of these gatherings a pupil caught stealing. 有一次，其中一名弟子偷窃被抓住。

6 commonwealth   

n.共和国，联邦，共同体

参考例句：

• He is the chairman of the commonwealth of artists.他是艺术家协会的主席。
• Most of the members of the Commonwealth are nonwhite.英联邦的许多成员国不是白人国家。

7 aboriginal   

adj.（指动植物）土生的，原产地的，土著的

参考例句：

• They managed to wipe out the entire aboriginal population.他们终于把那些土著人全部消灭了。
• The lndians are the aboriginal Americans.印第安人是美国的土著人。