澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-04-06

The Federal Government is denying it's doing a trade-off for the US government on asylum¹ seekers. Australia has agreed to take three Guantanamo Bay detainees from the US. The ABC has been told the move is related to the US government's decision to accept almost 30 asylum seekers from last year's Oceanic Viking stand-off. Immigration Minister says there's been no deal. 

The crew of a Chinese ship stuck on the Great Barrier Reef is set to be questioned today. Salvage² crews are on board the massive coal carrier, lodged³ on the reef of Rockhampton. It's spilled a couple of tonnes of oil. The Prime Minister will be flown over the ship this morning to assess the situation. 

And Tiger Woods is confident he can win the US Masters golf tournament at Augusta, even after a five-month layoff⁴. The world No.1 has fronted the media for the first time as he prepares for his comeback, but maintains it's not all about the championships.

“It's about how you live your life. And I had not done that the right way for a while, and I needed to change that.” 

Woods has been off the course since revelations of his extramarital affairs last year. 

We'll have more news later.

1 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。

2 salvage   

v.救助，营救，援救；n.救助，营救

参考例句：

• All attempts to salvage the wrecked ship failed.抢救失事船只的一切努力都失败了。
• The salvage was piled upon the pier.抢救出的财产被堆放在码头上。

3 lodged   

v.存放( lodge的过去式和过去分词 )；暂住；埋入；（权利、权威等）归属

参考例句：

• The certificate will have to be lodged at the registry. 证书必须存放在登记处。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Our neighbours lodged a complaint against us with the police. 我们的邻居向警方控告我们。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 layoff   

n.临时解雇，操作停止，活动停止期间，失业期

参考例句：

• Finally, prepare an explanation about what led to your layoff.最后，要准备好一套说辞来解释你被解雇的原因。
• Workers were re-employed after the layoff.在暂时解雇不久后工人们又被再度雇用了。