澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-04-01

Qantas is investigating how a tyre exploded on one of its planes as it landed in Sydney last night. The A380’s nose-wheel tyre burst as it hit the tarmac. No one was hurt, but passengers had to wait on board two hours and now face more inconvenience.

 

"They’re going to try and process luggage and courier（it）all out to us tomorrow. But that's a lot of luggage, so I don't know, you know if they'll get it done before Easter ..." The plane was arriving from Singapore.

 

The vote counts finished for the Tasmanian election with Labor¹ and the Coalition² evenly split with 10 seats each. The Greens have won five seats. Labor's caucus³ will meet this morning to determine whether it’d allow the Liberals to form a government. 

 

Chechen rebels have claimed responsibility for suicide attacks on the Moscow metro⁴ that killed 39 people. In the video message, rebel leader Doku Umarov says he personally ordered the attacks. He’s warned Russians there will be further violence.

 

And the United States has pledged more than one billion dollars to help earthquake-ravaged Haiti. The pledge was made at a United Nations conference for donors⁵. The World Bank has also pledged an extra 250 million dollars in aid.

 

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1 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

2 coalition   

n.结合体，同盟，结合，联合

参考例句：

• The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
• Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。

3 caucus   

n.秘密会议；干部会议；v.（参加）干部开会议

参考例句：

• This multi-staged caucus takes several months.这个多级会议常常历时好几个月。
• It kept the Democratic caucus from fragmenting.它也使得民主党的核心小组避免了土崩瓦解的危险。

4 metro   

n.地铁；adj.大都市的；(METRO)麦德隆(财富500强公司之一总部所在地德国，主要经营零售)

参考例句：

• Can you reach the park by metro?你可以乘地铁到达那个公园吗？
• The metro flood gate system is a disaster prevention equipment.地铁防淹门系统是一种防灾设备。

5 donors   

n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 )；献血者；捐血者；器官捐献者

参考例句：

• Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
• About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》