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Australia: Boy's body found in bag
In Sydney, children playing in a suburban¹ park discovered the body of a naked boy inside a suitcase floating in a duck pond on Wednesday.
The group of 10 children pulled the dark, tartan-patterned case ashore² and reported their gruesome discovery after opening it.
There is widespread outrage³ at the brutality⁴ directed toward the unidentified child, who police say does not match the description of anyone on missing-persons lists.
"Put simply, it's one of the most monstrous⁵ acts imaginable," say New South Wale’s State Premier⁶ Morris Iemma.
China: Working minor⁷ crackdown
The Ministry⁸ of Education said on Thursday that education officials have joined forces with employment authorities to investigate reports of agencies and individuals luring⁹ minors¹⁰ to work.
Education authorities across the country will join officials with law enforcement powers in labor¹¹ departments, and commerce and industry administrations to intensify¹² supervision¹³ and management to halt the illegal employment of minors.

China: Eagle hunters hunted by police
Police in Gaoyi County in Hebei Province, are searching for two people suspected of trading State-protected wild eagles.
Police were making a routine check at a crossroads last Friday and pulled up the driver and owner of a minibus, who said they were transporting pigeons.
But when the cops checked the minibus they found 41 eagles in iron cages. When they called forestry¹⁴ experts to help them free the captive birds, however, the two men fled the scene.
China: National Theater Reports revenues
China's futuristic National Grand Theater reported earnings¹⁵ of 3.5 million yuan (or 437,500 US dollars) during its test show period from September 25 to October 13.
The revenue came from 23 performances of seven operas, dramas and ballets including China's classic ballet, The Red Detachment of Women, the drama Teahouse, the ballet Swan Lake and the opera Sister Jiang, according to the Beijing Times newspaper.
These test performances were not open to the general public, but to migrant workers and residents relocated to make way for construction of the egg-shaped theater.





Thailand: Pigs can fly
Well not quite - but they can jump through rings of fire and twirl on pedestals, at a zoo in Thailand.
Five pink and black piglets are the unlikely new stars of the performance at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Chonburi, Out billing tigers and crocodiles in the Chinese year of the pig.
The poor thing also dance, pick up tennis balls and zig-zag through poles.
Since the show began five months ago not a loin of pork has been charred¹⁶.

1 suburban   

adj.城郊的，在郊区的

参考例句：

• Suburban shopping centers were springing up all over America. 效区的商业中心在美国如雨后春笋般地兴起。
• There's a lot of good things about suburban living.郊区生活是有许多优点。

2 ashore   

adv.在(向)岸上，上岸

参考例句：

• The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前，孩子们就上岸了。
• He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。

3 outrage   

n.暴行，侮辱，愤怒；vt.凌辱，激怒

参考例句：

• When he heard the news he reacted with a sense of outrage.他得悉此事时义愤填膺。
• We should never forget the outrage committed by the Japanese invaders.我们永远都不应该忘记日本侵略者犯下的暴行。

4 brutality   

n.野蛮的行为，残忍，野蛮

参考例句：

• The brutality of the crime has appalled the public. 罪行之残暴使公众大为震惊。
• a general who was infamous for his brutality 因残忍而恶名昭彰的将军

5 monstrous   

adj.巨大的；恐怖的；可耻的，丢脸的

参考例句：

• The smoke began to whirl and grew into a monstrous column.浓烟开始盘旋上升，形成了一个巨大的烟柱。
• Your behaviour in class is monstrous!你在课堂上的行为真是丢人！

6 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。

7 minor   

adj.较小(少)的，较次要的；n.辅修学科；vi.辅修

参考例句：

• The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。
• I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。

8 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

9 luring   

吸引，引诱（lure的现在分词形式）

参考例句：

• Cheese is very good for luring a mouse into a trap. 奶酪是引诱老鼠上钩的极好的东西。
• Her training warned her of peril and of the wrong, subtle, mysterious, luring. 她的教养警告她：有危险，要出错儿，这是微妙、神秘而又诱人的。

10 minors   

n.未成年人( minor的名词复数 )；副修科目；小公司；[逻辑学]小前提v.[主美国英语]副修，选修，兼修( minor的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The law forbids shops to sell alcohol to minors. 法律禁止商店向未成年者出售含酒精的饮料。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He had three minors this semester. 这学期他有三门副修科目。 来自《简明英汉词典》

11 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。

12 intensify   

vt.加强；变强；加剧

参考例句：

• We must intensify our educational work among our own troops.我们必须加强自己部队的教育工作。
• They were ordered to intensify their patrols to protect our air space.他们奉命加强巡逻，保卫我国的领空。

13 supervision   

n.监督，管理

参考例句：

• The work was done under my supervision.这项工作是在我的监督之下完成的。
• The old man's will was executed under the personal supervision of the lawyer.老人的遗嘱是在律师的亲自监督下执行的。

14 forestry   

n.森林学；林业

参考例句：

• At present, the Chinese forestry is being at a significant transforming period. 当前, 我国的林业正处于一个重大的转折时期。
• Anhua is one of the key forestry counties in Hunan province. 安化县是湖南省重点林区县之一。

15 earnings   

n.工资收人；利润，利益，所得

参考例句：

• That old man lives on the earnings of his daughter.那个老人靠他女儿的收入维持生活。
• Last year there was a 20% decrease in his earnings.去年他的收入减少了20%。

16 charred   

v.把…烧成炭( char的过去式)；烧焦

参考例句：

• the charred remains of a burnt-out car 被烧焦的轿车残骸
• The intensity of the explosion is recorded on the charred tree trunks. 那些烧焦的树干表明爆炸的强烈。 来自《简明英汉词典》