澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-08-13

Pakistan's president has visited a camp for flood victims during his first trip to areas hit by the deluge¹. Asif Ali Zardari has been criticized for failing to cut short an overseas trip when the floods first hit. Pakistan's government has also been under fire for its slow response to the country's worst humanitarian² crisis. The floods have now affected³ 14 million people.

Four Ugandan men have admitted to planning bomb attacks which killed more than 70 soccer fans watching the World Cup. Two blasts struck a restaurant and a rugby club filled with people watching last month's Cup final. The four men arrested say they were motivated by religion.

Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will today launch their final appeals against their death sentences for drug trafficking. The pair's Bali-based lawyer says his team will submit the appeals to the Denpasar District Court. Twenty-six-year-old Chan and 29-year-old Sukumaran are two of nine Australians convicted over a 2005 plot to smuggle⁴ more than eight kilograms of heroin⁵ from Bali to Australia.

Eight people will face a Melbourne court today charged with running a multi-million-dollar heroin ring. Police in the Australian Crime Commission raided 14 Melbourne homes yesterday morning. They seized millions of dollars worth of heroin, cash and Crown Casino gambling⁶ chips. Twenty-one people were arrested in the sting and police expect to lay more charges today.

And three cases of a new global superbug have been recorded in Australian hospitals. The bacteria is the most resistant⁸ to antibiotics⁹ that scientists have ever seen. The bug⁷ has been blamed on an increasing number of patients travelling to Asia for so-called medical tourism. The World Health Organization describes superbugs as one of the greatest threats to human health.

1 deluge   

n./vt.洪水，暴雨，使泛滥

参考例句：

• This little stream can become a deluge when it rains heavily.雨大的时候，这条小溪能变作洪流。
• I got caught in the deluge on the way home.我在回家的路上遇到倾盆大雨。

2 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

3 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

4 smuggle   

vt.私运；vi.走私

参考例句：

• Friends managed to smuggle him secretly out of the country.朋友们想方设法将他秘密送出国了。
• She has managed to smuggle out the antiques without getting caught.她成功将古董走私出境，没有被逮捕。

5 heroin   

n.海洛因

参考例句：

• Customs have made their biggest ever seizure of heroin.海关查获了有史以来最大的一批海洛因。
• Heroin has been smuggled out by sea.海洛因已从海上偷运出境。

6 gambling   

n.赌博；投机

参考例句：

• They have won a lot of money through gambling.他们赌博赢了很多钱。
• The men have been gambling away all night.那些人赌了整整一夜。

7 bug   

n.虫子；故障；窃听器；vt.纠缠；装窃听器

参考例句：

• There is a bug in the system.系统出了故障。
• The bird caught a bug on the fly.那鸟在飞行中捉住了一只昆虫。

8 resistant   

adj.(to)抵抗的，有抵抗力的

参考例句：

• Many pests are resistant to the insecticide.许多害虫对这种杀虫剂有抵抗力。
• They imposed their government by force on the resistant population.他们以武力把自己的统治强加在持反抗态度的人民头上。

9 antibiotics   

n.（用作复数）抗生素；（用作单数）抗生物质的研究；抗生素，抗菌素( antibiotic的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• the discovery of antibiotics in the 20th century 20世纪抗生素的发现
• The doctor gave me a prescription for antibiotics. 医生给我开了抗生素。