澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2016-02-01

 Novak Djokovic has claimed his sixth Australian Open title, defeating Andy Murray in straight sets last night. The World No. 1 triumphed 6-1, 7-5, 7-6. Djokovic has now equaled Roy Emerson's record of six Australian single’s titles. 

 

Police in Melbourne have arrested at least ten suspected drug dealers¹ after a series of raids overnight. More than 150 armed officers raided flats and houses across suburbs including Carlton, Richmond and Sequada as part of operation merges². 

 

A man from eastern Victoria has been flown to hospital with gunshot wounds to his chest. Police were called to the Star Street Reserve in / before this morning where they found the man is under a serious condition. Another man in his 20 was arrested and has now been interviewed by police. 

 

At least 60 people have been killed in a triple suicide bombing near the Syrian capital Damascus. Local news agency’s car bomb exploded near Shiite shrine³. And two more bombs detonated their explosive / people gathered at the scene. The Islamic state group has claimed responsibility for those attacks. 

 

And a split between state and federal Labor⁴ is widening over possible changes to the GST. South Australia’s Labor Premier⁵ Jay Weatherill says he’s prepared to accept the highest GST as the trade for more health and education spending. Labor’s Deputy Senate leader said Steven Conroy has dared Mr. Weatherill to take his idea. To the people predicting, he would lose an election if he did. Meanwhile, a newspoll out today has found 54% of voters opposed raising the GST to 15%.

1 dealers   

n.商人( dealer的名词复数 )；贩毒者；毒品贩子；发牌者

参考例句：

• There was fast bidding between private collectors and dealers. 私人收藏家和交易商急速竞相喊价。
• The police were corrupt and were operating in collusion with the drug dealers. 警察腐败，与那伙毒品贩子内外勾结。

2 merges   

（使）混合( merge的第三人称单数 )； 相融； 融入； 渐渐消失在某物中

参考例句：

• The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Mo Yan"who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". 2012年诺贝尔文学奖得主为莫言，他“很好地将魔幻现实与民间故事、历史与当代结合在一起”。
• A device that collates, merges, or matches sets of punched cards or other documents. 一种整理、合并或比较一组穿孔卡片或其它文档的设备。

3 shrine   

n.圣地，神龛，庙；v.将...置于神龛内，把...奉为神圣

参考例句：

• The shrine was an object of pilgrimage.这处圣地是人们朝圣的目的地。
• They bowed down before the shrine.他们在神龛前鞠躬示敬。

4 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

5 premier   

adj.首要的；n.总理，首相

参考例句：

• The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
• He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。