澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-07-20

And a man wearing red Speedos who confronted Tony Abbott in Melbourne yesterday has been exposed as a Labor¹ campaign officer. Conrad French works in the ALP head office in Victoria with the state secretary and campaign director Nicholas Reece. It had been thought the man of the budgie smuggling² stunts³ was a disgruntled voter.

The federal election debate between the Prime Minister and the Opposition⁴ Leader is likely to clash with the finale of popular TV show MasterChef. Julia Gillard has indicated there'll be only one campaign debate between her and Tony Abbott and it's likely to be this Sunday.

The Melbourne Storm’s former acting⁵ CEO says senior News Limited executives knew about salary cap breaches⁶ two months before they became public. Matt Hanson has told The Age newspaper executives were told of the breaches as early as February, but did nothing to address them.

A ceremony has been held in northern France to mark the reburial of 250 Australian and British soldiers killed in World War I. The soldiers were killed in the Battle of Fromelles more than 90 years ago. Their bodies had been buried in mass graves until they were discovered a couple of years ago. They are about being reinterred with full military honors.

And police are investigating the murder of a Greek journalist who was shot more than 15 times outside his Athens home. It's believed Sokratis Giolias was about to publish the results of an investigation⁷ into corruption⁸.

1 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。

2 smuggling   

n.走私

参考例句：

• Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。
• The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。

3 stunts   

n.惊人的表演( stunt的名词复数 )；（广告中）引人注目的花招；愚蠢行为；危险举动v.阻碍…发育[生长]，抑制，妨碍( stunt的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• He did all his own stunts. 所有特技都是他自己演的。
• The plane did a few stunts before landing. 飞机着陆前做了一些特技。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

5 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

6 breaches   

破坏( breach的名词复数 )； 破裂； 缺口； 违背

参考例句：

• He imposed heavy penalties for breaches of oath or pledges. 他对违反誓言和保证的行为给予严厉的惩罚。
• This renders all breaches of morality before marriage very uncommon. 这样一来，婚前败坏道德的事就少见了。

7 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

8 corruption   

n.腐败，堕落，贪污

参考例句：

• The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
• The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。