澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-04-25

 Tens of thousands of Australians are attending Anzac Day services right around the country this morning. Crowds have attended a dawn service at Sydney Cenotaph where there was rain. And thousands of people have gathered at Melbourne’s Shrine¹ of Remembrance.

 

Julia Gillard has paid tribute to those who helped make Australia a safer, stronger country. The Prime Minister, who’s attended an Anzac Day service in South Korea, sent a message to Australia’s defence personnel around the world. She said the Anzac story is a living tradition. Today is the first time a Prime Minister marked Anzac Day at a Korean war memorial. 

 

Asylum² seekers are continuing their protest at Sydney’s Villawood Detention³ Centre. Three men are on the roof. They are protesting against their failed visa applications. On Wednesday night, almost 100 rioters burned down nine buildings at that centre. 

 

The Federal Government has warned Australians not to travel to Syria and told those in the country to consider leaving. This new travel alert says security in the country is disintegrating⁴. At least 12 people were killed on the weekend when authorities fired on mourners attending funerals for pro-democracy demonstrators. And protesters are calling for an end to the rule of President Bashar al-Assad. 

 

Libyan rebels say forces loyal to the Gaddafi regime have bombarded residential⁵ areas of Misrata. There’ve been reports that government forces have been ordered to stop fighting to give tribal⁶ leaders a chance to negotiate with the rebels. Human rights groups say that more than 1,000 people have now died in violence in Misrata.

1 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。

2 asylum   

n.避难所，庇护所，避难

参考例句：

• The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
• Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。

3 detention   

n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下

参考例句：

• He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
• He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。

4 disintegrating   

v.（使）破裂[分裂，粉碎]，（使）崩溃( disintegrate的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• As a poetic version of a disintegrating world, this one pleased him. 作为世界崩溃论在文学上的表现，他非常喜欢这个学说。 来自辞典例句
• Soil animals increase the speed of litter breakdown by disintegrating tissue. 土壤动物通过分解组织，加速落叶层降解的速度。 来自辞典例句

5 residential   

adj.提供住宿的；居住的；住宅的

参考例句：

• The mayor inspected the residential section of the city.市长视察了该市的住宅区。
• The residential blocks were integrated with the rest of the college.住宿区与学院其他部分结合在了一起。

6 tribal   

adj.部族的，种族的

参考例句：

• He became skilled in several tribal lingoes.他精通几种部族的语言。
• The country was torn apart by fierce tribal hostilities.那个国家被部落间的激烈冲突弄得四分五裂。