澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-11-14

 US President Barack Obama has nominated trade and investment as the key issues at this year's APEC summit. The president has officially opened the forum¹ which is attended by 21 Asia-Pacific leaders. Yesterday, nine of those nations including Australia and the US agreed on a broad framework for a new free-trade deal. 

 

The Arab League is going to meet later in the week to discuss the crisis in Syria. A decision by the league to suspend Syria's membership sparked big protests throughout the country. Violent mobs stormed the Saudi and Qatari embassies in Damascus. The French and Turkish diplomatic missions were also attacked. France and Saudi Arabia have condemned² the attacks and Turkey is now evacuating³ the families of diplomatic staff from the country. 

 

More Aboriginal⁴ communities will soon have their family welfare payments linked to school attendance for their children. The Federal Government will introduce legislation next week to extend the intervention⁵ program to more than 20 Aboriginal communities. The program’s aimed at fighting high rates of truancy⁶. 

 

Police in South Africa have confirmed that cricket writer and commentator⁷ Peter Roebuck took his own life. Mr Roebuck was found dead outside his hotel room in Cape⁸ Town at the weekend. He was there to cover the first test series between South Africa and Australia for the ABC and Fairfax. South African police investigators⁹ had spoken to Mr Roebuck earlier in the day, but they won't confirm reports that police were present in Mr Roebuck's Cape Town hotel when he took his own life.

1 forum   

n.论坛，讨论会

参考例句：

• They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
• The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。

2 condemned   

adj. 被责难的, 被宣告有罪的 动词condemn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He condemned the hypocrisy of those politicians who do one thing and say another. 他谴责了那些说一套做一套的政客的虚伪。
• The policy has been condemned as a regressive step. 这项政策被认为是一种倒退而受到谴责。

3 evacuating   

撤离，疏散( evacuate的现在分词 )； 排空（胃肠），排泄（粪便）； （从危险的地方）撤出，搬出，撤空

参考例句：

• The solution is degassed by alternately freezing, evacuating and thawing. 通过交替的冻结、抽空和溶化来使溶液除气。
• Are we evacuating these potential targets? 能够在这些目标地域内进行疏散吗？

4 aboriginal   

adj.（指动植物）土生的，原产地的，土著的

参考例句：

• They managed to wipe out the entire aboriginal population.他们终于把那些土著人全部消灭了。
• The lndians are the aboriginal Americans.印第安人是美国的土著人。

5 intervention   

n.介入，干涉，干预

参考例句：

• The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。
• Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。

6 truancy   

n.逃学，旷课

参考例句：

• Schools need to reduce levels of truancy.学校需要减少旷课人数。
• It was a day for impulse and truancy.这是个适于冲动或偷懒的日子。

7 commentator   

n.注释者，解说者；实况广播评论员

参考例句：

• He is a good commentator because he can get across the game.他能简单地解说这场比赛，是个好的解说者。
• The commentator made a big mistake during the live broadcast.在直播节目中评论员犯了个大错误。

8 cape   

n.海角，岬；披肩，短披风

参考例句：

• I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
• She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。

9 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》