澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2012-06-28

 Leading the news this morning The Prime Minister has made a plea to the Senate to pass the bill that would break the asylum¹ seeker deadlock².It took six hours of emotional debate for the legislation to pass the House of Representatives last night.The bill by independent PM,Rob Oakeshott,would restore offshore³ processing and allow asylum seekers to be sent to both Malaysia and Nauru,but it's unlikely to pass the Senate,because the opposition⁴ and the Greens are refusing to support it.

 

Another asylum seeker boat has sent out a distress⁵ call.The boat was 20 nautical⁶ miles,south of Indonesia,when it sent out the call late yesterday.Indonesian authorities are taking responsibility for that rescue and 130 people were rescued from an asylum seeker boat that capsized yesterday.4 people are thought to have drowned.

 

Emergency crews are still cleaning up after an oil tanker⁷ crushed north of Melbourne overnight.The tanker collided with a car on the Hume high way near Walen,spilling thousands of liters of petrol over the road.The Hume High Way is close in both directions and the cleaning up is expected to take several hours,disrupting peak hour traffic.

 

More than 32,000 people have fled their homes as huge wild fires threat the US city of Colorado Springs.Roads were choked with traffic as people hurry to evacuate⁸ the city and the nearby city airforce academy.More than 800 firefighters are battling the blaze,extreme fire warnings have been issued across several western US states.

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 deadlock   

n.僵局，僵持

参考例句：

• The negotiations reached a deadlock after two hours.两小时后，谈判陷入了僵局。
• The employers and strikers are at a deadlock over the wage.雇主和罢工者在工资问题上相持不下。

3 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。

4 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

5 distress   

n.苦恼，痛苦，不舒适；不幸；vt.使悲痛

参考例句：

• Nothing could alleviate his distress.什么都不能减轻他的痛苦。
• Please don't distress yourself.请你不要忧愁了。

6 nautical   

adj.海上的，航海的，船员的

参考例句：

• A nautical mile is 1,852 meters.一海里等于1852米。
• It is 206 nautical miles from our present location.距离我们现在的位置有206海里。

7 tanker   

n.油轮

参考例句：

• The tanker took on 200,000 barrels of crude oil.油轮装载了二十万桶原油。
• Heavy seas had pounded the tanker into three parts.汹涌的巨浪把油轮撞成三载。

8 evacuate   

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

参考例句：

• We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
• They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。