澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-03-02

 The United Nations is warning of a growing humanitarian¹ crisis as tens of thousands of people try to flee the violence in Libya. The UN says the situation on the border with Tunisia is now in absolute chaos². About 2,000 people are crossing the border every hour and aid workers are struggling to cope. They say there’s another 20,000 people backed up on the Libyan side.

 

There’ve been more big protests in Yemen demanding an end to the regime there. Hundreds of thousands of people marched in cities across the country in the largest display of people power yet. Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been under increasing pressure to resign. He’s accused the United States of instigating³ these protests.

 

Some Commonwealth⁴ Bank customers who think they’ve had a financial windfall are in for a rude shock. A computer glitch⁵ in 40 of the bank’s ATMs in Sydney allowed some people to deliberately⁶ overdraw⁷ their accounts yesterday. The police and the bank are now trying to work out just how many cardholders are involved. The bank says it’ll track them down and they will have to pay the money back.

 

Andrew Wilkie has branded two Coalition⁸ frontbenchers racists in a no-holds-barred attack in Parliament. The Independent MP has pointed⁹ the finger at Immigration Spokesman Scott Morrison and his Parliamentary Secretary Cory Bernardi for their recent comments on asylum¹⁰ seekers and Muslims. Mr Wilkie referred to what he called the “racism that eats at the Liberal Party” and said both men should be sacked.

1 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。

2 chaos   

n.混乱，无秩序

参考例句：

• After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后，城市一片混乱。
• The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。

3 instigating   

v.使（某事物）开始或发生，鼓动( instigate的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Distant but clear Longyin instigating the eardrums of every person. 遥远却清晰的龙吟鼓动着每一个人的耳膜。 来自互联网
• The leader was charged with instigating the workers to put down tools. 那位领导人被指控煽动工人罢工。 来自互联网

4 commonwealth   

n.共和国，联邦，共同体

参考例句：

• He is the chairman of the commonwealth of artists.他是艺术家协会的主席。
• Most of the members of the Commonwealth are nonwhite.英联邦的许多成员国不是白人国家。

5 glitch   

n.干扰；误操作，小故障

参考例句：

• There is a glitch in the computer program somewhere.这个计算机程序中的某个部分有点小问题。
• It could just be a random glitch that can be solved by restarting the machine.可能只是一个小故障，重新启动主机就能解决了。

6 deliberately   

adv.审慎地；蓄意地；故意地

参考例句：

• The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
• They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。

7 overdraw   

n.透支，超支

参考例句：

• Borrow write down card to be not had overdraw function.借记卡不具备透支功能。
• Overdraw will indicate how much of the screen is consuming overdraw time.透支模式将显示屏幕消耗的透支时间。

8 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。

9 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

10 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。