澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-10-25

 Rescue workers are continuing their frantic¹ search for more survivors² from Turkey's devastating³ earthquake. But as time goes on, they are losing hope of pulling any more people alive from the rubble⁴. Thousands of people spent another freezing night sleeping out in the open. Military aircraft have been dropping emergency supplies into the area. 

 

The whistle-blower website WikiLeaks is running out of money. It's had to temporarily suspend publishing documents because of the funding crisis. WikiLeaks founder⁵ Julian Assange says restrictions⁶ by US-based financial companies have starved the website of nearly all of its revenue.

 

Rupert Murdoch's former right hand man has defended his claims that phone hacking⁷ at the News of the World was restricted to a single reporter. Les Hinton was making another appearance before the British parliamentary committee investigating the scandal. Mr Hinton was forced to quit as head of Dow Jones and publisher of the Wall Street Journal over the scandal. 

 

Libya's interim⁸ government has bowed to international pressure and ordered an inquiry⁹ into the death of Muammar Gaddafi. They've also stopped the public display of the former dictator's body in Misurata. And Human Rights Watch says it has evidence that more than 50 of Colonel Gaddafi's supporters were executed at a hotel in the city of Sirte. 

 

And the Queen is going to be spending a quieter day in Canberra today after yesterday's whirlwind visit to Brisbane. The Queen and Prince Philip will visit the Australian War Memorial this morning.

1 frantic   

adj.狂乱的，错乱的，激昂的

参考例句：

• I've had a frantic rush to get my work done.我急急忙忙地赶完工作。
• He made frantic dash for the departing train.他发疯似地冲向正开出的火车。

2 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

3 devastating   

adj.毁灭性的，令人震惊的，强有力的

参考例句：

• It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
• Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。

4 rubble   

n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾

参考例句：

• After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
• After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。

5 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。

6 restrictions   

约束( restriction的名词复数 )； 管制； 制约因素； 带限制性的条件（或规则）

参考例句：

• I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
• a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制

7 hacking   

n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动

参考例句：

• The patient with emphysema is hacking all day. 这个肺气肿病人整天不断地干咳。
• We undertook the task of hacking our way through the jungle. 我们负责在丛林中开路。

8 interim   

adj.暂时的，临时的；n.间歇，过渡期间

参考例句：

• The government is taking interim measures to help those in immediate need.政府正在采取临时措施帮助那些有立即需要的人。
• It may turn out to be an interim technology.这可能只是个过渡技术。

9 inquiry   

n.打听，询问，调查，查问

参考例句：

• Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
• The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。