澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-03-29

 A jury has found a man who threw his four-year-old daughter off Melbourne's Westgate Bridge guilty of murder. Arthur Freeman was found guilty after the jury deliberated for five days. The jury members had earlier told the judge they would not be able to reach a unanimous verdict.

 

The rebels' rapid advance through the west of Libya seems to have been halted. Libyan government troops have thwarted¹ the rebels' attempt to take Colonel Gaddafi's birthplace of Sirte. But they came under heavy fire as they approached the town.

 

And a worrying sign in Japan -- Highly radioactive water and plutonium have been found for the first time outside one of the reactors³ at the Fukushima nuclear plant. The leak is in a tunnel linked to reactor² No. 2. Plutonium, the most dangerous substance on earth, has been found in soil at five places at the plant. But the company running Fukushima insists the contamination does not pose a threat to human health. 

 

Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has turned up to court in Milan to face corruption⁴ charges. It's the first time in eight years he's fronted one of his trials in person. Mr Berlusconi denies claims he misused⁵ money for a political slush fund.

 

And the Greens want to stop the Federal Government from giving big companies a tax cut. The Government's planning to cut company tax from 30 per cent to 29 per cent as part of its mining tax deal. Greens leader Bob Brown will announce today his party would support cuts for small business, but would block any tax cut for bigger companies.

1 thwarted   

阻挠( thwart的过去式和过去分词 )； 使受挫折； 挫败； 横过

参考例句：

• The guards thwarted his attempt to escape from prison. 警卫阻扰了他越狱的企图。
• Our plans for a picnic were thwarted by the rain. 我们的野餐计划因雨受挫。

2 reactor   

n.反应器；反应堆

参考例句：

• The atomic reactor generates enormous amounts of thermal energy.原子反应堆发出大量的热能。
• Inside the reactor the large molecules are cracked into smaller molecules.在反应堆里，大分子裂变为小分子。

3 reactors   

起反应的人( reactor的名词复数 )； 反应装置； 原子炉； 核反应堆

参考例句：

• The TMI nuclear facility has two reactors. 三哩岛核设施有两个反应堆。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
• The earliest production reactors necessarily used normal uranium as fuel. 最早为生产用的反应堆，必须使用普通铀作为燃料。

4 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。

5 misused   

v.使用…不当( misuse的过去式和过去分词 )；把…派作不正当的用途；虐待；滥用

参考例句：

• He misused his dog shamefully. 他可耻地虐待自己的狗。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He had grossly misused his power. 他严重滥用职权。 来自《简明英汉词典》