澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-06-02

Australian system of detaining and processing asylum¹ seekers offshore² is being challenged in the High Court. Four new challenges to the policy have been filed. Lawyers for at least 13 Afghani and Sri Lankan asylum seekers have already managed to delay deportations. All in the group have been held on Christmas Island or on the mainland，but they classified as offshore detainees. The Government says it's confident of winning those cases.

West Australian police have prepared a second warrant for murder suspect Cameron Mansell. The 38-year-old was detained near Townsville last week after a nationwide manhunt by police investigating the disappearance³ of his business partner Craig Puddy. A federal magistrate⁴ in north Queensland has ruled the first arrest warrant invalid⁵. Police will resume their search for Craig Puddy’s body today.

A woman has died in hospital after being stabbed and set alight during a domestic dispute in Melbourne's east yesterday. Bystanders at a Bayswater petrol station, tried to save the woman as her car and a petrol pump caught fire. The attacker fled, but was found by police in the nearby churchyard. The 41-year-old man remains⁶ in hospital under police guard.

In Guatemala, a giant sinkhole has swallowed a three-storey building and a house. The sinkhole opened up in Guatemala City in the wake of Tropical Storm Agatha.

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 offshore   

adj.海面的，吹向海面的；adv.向海面

参考例句：

• A big program of oil exploration has begun offshore.一个大规模的石油勘探计划正在近海展开。
• A gentle current carried them slowly offshore.和缓的潮流慢慢地把他们带离了海岸。

3 disappearance   

n.消失，消散，失踪

参考例句：

• He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.他难以说明她为什么不见了。
• Her disappearance gave rise to the wildest rumours.她失踪一事引起了各种流言蜚语。

4 magistrate   

n.地方行政官，地方法官，治安官

参考例句：

• The magistrate committed him to prison for a month.法官判处他一个月监禁。
• John was fined 1000 dollars by the magistrate.约翰被地方法官罚款1000美元。

5 invalid   

n.病人，伤残人；adj.有病的，伤残的；无效的

参考例句：

• He will visit an invalid.他将要去看望一个病人。
• A passport that is out of date is invalid.护照过期是无效的。

6 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。