澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2012-07-03

 The Prime Minister has a big job ahead of her,selling the Carbon Tax. The latest opinion poll suggests it's more unpopular than ever. Two thirds surveyed in the Fair Fax Nilson poll say they don't support the tax.

 

The Australian lawyer Melinda Taylor is expected to be released from Libya detention¹ centre today. She is one of the four lawyers detained last month while meeting the former asylum² leader Mouammer  Gaddafi. An International Criminal Court spokesman says its president will travel to Libya ahead of the release.

 

Extradition³ proceedings⁴ will begin today in Darwin for a man wanted over a murder in New South Wales. Northern Territory police have arrested Johnason Hernasburg who's been on the run since last week. He is accused of the beheading of a 54-year-old man on the New South Wales north coast last month.

 

A search will resume at first light for a man believed to have been missing in waters on the Gold Coast in Queensland's southeast. Water police and a helicopter scout⁵ the Surf lake yesterday after a Port Mandesion distress⁶ at a broad beach. The search was suspended overnight.

 

A study has found indeginous prisoners in Queensland will have a higher risk of mental illness than the general population. The study has found 73% of indigenous⁷ men and 86% of indigenous women at Queenland prisons have a mental disorder⁸.

1 detention   

n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下

参考例句：

• He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
• He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。

2 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。

3 extradition   

n.引渡（逃犯）

参考例句：

• The smuggler is in prison tonight,awaiting extradition to Britain.这名走私犯今晚在监狱，等待引渡到英国。
• He began to trouble concerning the extradition laws.他开始费尽心思地去想关于引渡法的问题。

4 proceedings   

n.进程，过程，议程；诉讼(程序)；公报

参考例句：

• He was released on bail pending committal proceedings. 他交保获释正在候审。
• to initiate legal proceedings against sb 对某人提起诉讼

5 scout   

n.童子军，侦察员；v.侦察，搜索

参考例句：

• He was mistaken for an enemy scout and badly wounded.他被误认为是敌人的侦察兵，受了重伤。
• The scout made a stealthy approach to the enemy position.侦察兵偷偷地靠近敌军阵地。

6 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。

7 indigenous   

adj.土产的，土生土长的，本地的

参考例句：

• Each country has its own indigenous cultural tradition.每个国家都有自己本土的文化传统。
• Indians were the indigenous inhabitants of America.印第安人是美洲的土著居民。

8 disorder   

n.紊乱，混乱；骚动，骚乱；疾病，失调

参考例句：

• When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后，他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
• It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。