澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2012-09-07

 The Construction Union has agreed to end its three-week blockade of a building site in central Melbourne and an agreement was reached after marathon talks at Fair Work Australia last night. Despite the agreement, Unionists have gathered at the site again this morning.

 

 

 

Police say they are baffled¹ by a shooting that's killed four people in the French Alps. Three members of one family were found shot dead in their car. A seven-year-old girl was seriously injured and her four-year-old sister was found hiding under her mother's body. A local cyclist was also shot dead.

 

 

 

Almost 60 asylum² seekers drowned when their boat sank off the coast of Turkey. About 50 people managed to swim to shore after the boat hit rocks in the Aegean Sea. Officials say most of the passengers were from Iraq and Syria. 

 

 

 

South Australia has again been battered³ by wild weather. Winds up to 100 kilometres an hour hit parts of Melbourne overnight. The SES was called to a house in Bayswater after a tree fell on a garage. In Adelaide, black ice on the roads proved treacherous⁴ for cars and trucks. 

 

 

 

Investigations⁵ are continuing into the cause of a fire in a Sydney apartment block. One woman died when she jumped from a burning unit on the sixth floor. Another woman who jumped remains⁶ in hospital in a serious condition.

1 baffled   

adj.带有障板的，阻挡的v.使困难，使为难( baffle的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The question baffled me completely and I couldn't answer it. 这个问题把我彻底难倒了，我答不出来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Her question has baffled me. 她的问题把我难倒了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

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 battered   

adj.磨损的；v.连续猛击；磨损

参考例句：

• He drove up in a battered old car.他开着一辆又老又破的旧车。
• The world was brutally battered but it survived.这个世界遭受了惨重的创伤,但它还是生存下来了。

4 treacherous   

adj.不可靠的，有暗藏的危险的；adj.背叛的，背信弃义的

参考例句：

• The surface water made the road treacherous for drivers.路面的积水对驾车者构成危险。
• The frozen snow was treacherous to walk on.在冻雪上行走有潜在危险。

5 investigations   

（正式的）调查( investigation的名词复数 )； 侦查； 科学研究； 学术研究

参考例句：

• His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查，但没有发现什么。
• He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。

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。