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Health authorities across the country are facing a nervous wait with growing concerns the highly contagious¹ UK variant² of COVID-19 may have spread outside one of Queensland's quarantine hotels. More than 100 guests at Brisbane's Grand Chancellor³ Hotel are being moved out to spend another two week stint⁴ in quarantine. It comes as a number of cases in the cluster grows to six. New South Wales and Victoria have issued new requirements for hundreds of people who quarantined in the hotel.

Victoria has witnessed a horror day at its beaches with three people dying in separate incidents yesterday. A woman died while five others were taken to nearby hospitals after a group were swept into the sea at Bushrangers Bay on the Mornington Peninsula. Earlier, a man in his 80s died after being pulled unconscious from Port Phillip Bay at Tootgarook and a woman in her 20s died while trying to rescue a young girl at Venus Bay in Gippsland.

Thousands of members of the national guard are stationed inside the Capitol as the US Congress debates impeaching⁵ Donald Trump⁶ over last week's riot. Democrats⁷ and at least six Republicans want Mr Trump impeached⁸ accusing him of inciting⁹ a mob of his supporters to storm the Capitol building last week.

Two new cases of coronavirus have been diagnosed in hotel quarantine in Darwin. The two people are part of a group of foreign military officials and their dependents who were quarantining in the hotel in the city's CBD.

澳大利亚各地卫生部门正在紧张等待，因为越来越多的人担心高传染性的英国新冠肺炎变种可能已经在昆士兰州一家检疫酒店外传播。布里斯班总理大酒店的100多名客人被要求搬出酒店，再隔离两周。与此同时，聚集性病例数量增加到6例。新南威尔士州和维多利亚州对在酒店隔离的数百人提出了新的要求。

维多利亚州海滩目睹了恐怖的一天，昨天有三人在不同的事件中死亡。在莫宁顿半岛的布什兰格斯湾，一群人被冲进海里，致1名女性死亡，另有5人被送往附近医院救治。早些时候，一名80多岁的男子在图特布鲁克的菲利普港湾被救起时已经昏迷，随后死亡，一名20多岁的女子在吉普斯兰的维纳斯湾试图营救一名年轻女孩时死亡。

美国国会就弹劾唐纳德·特朗普展开辩论时，有数千名国民警卫队成员驻扎在国会大厦内。民主党人和至少6名共和党人希望弹劾特朗普，指控他煽动支持者暴徒袭击国会大厦。

达尔文市在酒店检疫中诊断出两例新增冠状病毒病例。这两人是外国军事官员及家属团的成员，他们在达尔文市中央商务区的酒店里进行隔离。

1 contagious   

adj.传染性的，有感染力的

参考例句：

• It's a highly contagious infection.这种病极易传染。
• He's got a contagious laugh.他的笑富有感染力。

2 variant   

adj.不同的，变异的；n.变体，异体

参考例句：

• We give professional suggestions according to variant tanning stages for each customer.我们针对每位顾客不同的日晒阶段，提供强度适合的晒黑建议。
• In a variant of this approach,the tests are data- driven.这个方法的一个变种，是数据驱动的测试。

3 chancellor   

n.(英)大臣；法官；(德、奥)总理；大学校长

参考例句：

• They submitted their reports to the Chancellor yesterday.他们昨天向财政大臣递交了报告。
• He was regarded as the most successful Chancellor of modern times.他被认为是现代最成功的财政大臣。

4 stint   

v.节省，限制，停止；n.舍不得化，节约，限制；连续不断的一段时间从事某件事

参考例句：

• He lavished money on his children without stint.他在孩子们身上花钱毫不吝惜。
• We hope that you will not stint your criticism.我们希望您不吝指教。

5 impeaching   

v.控告（某人）犯罪( impeach的现在分词 )；弹劾；对（某事物）怀疑；提出异议

参考例句：

6 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

7 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 impeached   

v.控告（某人）犯罪( impeach的过去式和过去分词 )；弹劾；对（某事物）怀疑；提出异议

参考例句：

• Elected officials can be impeached. 经过选举产生的官员可以被弹劾。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The judge was impeached for taking a bribe. 这个法官被检举接受贿赂。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

9 inciting   

刺激的，煽动的

参考例句：

• What are you up to inciting mutiny and insubordination? 你们干吗在这里煽动骚动的叛乱呀。
• He was charged with inciting people to rebel. 他被控煽动民众起来叛乱。