澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2015-01-01

 You are watching ABC News 24. Hello, I’m Kumi Taguchi. The top stories were following. New Year’s Eve preparations are underway across Australia. More than a million people were expected to flock to vantage point surrounds Sydney Harbor to watch the iconic fireworks display. Tens of thousands are also heading to Adelaide. It would tark in Brisbane’s South Bank Parklands when in Melbourne, people are heading into the city to witness fireworks displayed from 21 launch points.

 

A plane that crashed off the southeast coast of Tasmania has been found at the bottom of the sea. Police say the body of the pilot and the passenger were found in the cockpit of the plane wreck¹. A recovery crew is attempting to hoist² the wreckage³ from the seabed so the police divers⁴ can start collecting evidence. 

 

A Queensland woman has appeared in court charged with trying to kill two children at a house in Murray Field north of Brisbane. The 55-year-old cried and asked for cigarettes during the brief hearing at the Murichdoor Magistrates⁵ Court. Her bail⁶ hearing has been agenda to Monday. 

 

And bad weather has prevented divers from searching for the wreckage bodies and black boxes of Air Asia flight QZ8501. The plane plunged⁷ into the water on Sunday about 40 minutes into its flight from Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore. A hundred and sixty-two people were on board. Six bodies have been found so far.

1 wreck   

n.失事，遇难；沉船；vt.(船等)失事，遇难

参考例句：

• Weather may have been a factor in the wreck.天气可能是造成这次失事的原因之一。
• No one can wreck the friendship between us.没有人能够破坏我们之间的友谊。

2 hoist   

n.升高，起重机，推动；v.升起，升高，举起

参考例句：

• By using a hoist the movers were able to sling the piano to the third floor.搬运工人用吊车才把钢琴吊到3楼。
• Hoist the Chinese flag on the flagpole,please!请在旗杆上升起中国国旗！

3 wreckage   

n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏

参考例句：

• They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
• New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。

4 divers   

adj.不同的；种种的

参考例句：

• He chose divers of them,who were asked to accompany him.他选择他们当中的几个人，要他们和他作伴。
• Two divers work together while a standby diver remains on the surface.两名潜水员协同工作，同时有一名候补潜水员留在水面上。

5 magistrates   

地方法官，治安官( magistrate的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• to come up before the magistrates 在地方法院出庭
• He was summoned to appear before the magistrates. 他被传唤在地方法院出庭。

6 bail   

v.舀（水），保释；n.保证金，保释，保释人

参考例句：

• One of the prisoner's friends offered to bail him out.犯人的一个朋友答应保释他出来。
• She has been granted conditional bail.她被准予有条件保释。

7 plunged   

v.颠簸( plunge的过去式和过去分词 )；暴跌；骤降；突降

参考例句：

• The train derailed and plunged into the river. 火车脱轨栽进了河里。
• She lost her balance and plunged 100 feet to her death. 她没有站稳，从100英尺的高处跌下摔死了。