澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2012-04-05

 evidence for the public prosecutor¹. The commonwealth² DPP says Fair Work’s report into the Health Services Union does not constitute a brief of evidence. 

 

Five suspected al-Qaeda militants³ accused of planning the 9/11 terror attacks will be tried by a military commission at Guantanamo Bay. The five include the alleged⁴ mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Pentagon officials say they face the death penalty if found guilty. 

 

French police have arrested 10 more suspected Islamist militants after raids in the south of France. They say those arrested have a similar profile to the gunman who killed seven people in Toulouse two weeks ago. 

 

Indonesia’s justice ministry⁵ has backed a long-standing recommendation to cut Australian Schapelle Corby’s jail term for smuggling⁶ marijuana. The 34-year-old is serving a 20-year sentence. There is no indication when President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will make a decision. 

 

Madame Tussauds has unveiled waxwork⁷ figures of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge. The couple have the same pose they had during their engagement announcement.

 

And a Queensland family which lost 11 family members and their home in a fire last August will receive the keys to a new home this morning. Eight children and teenagers died in the fire in the Brisbane suburb of slacks creek⁸. The Builders Laborers¹⁰ Union and more than 40 companies donated supplies and labor⁹ to rebuild the home.

1 prosecutor   

n.起诉人；检察官，公诉人

参考例句：

• The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
• The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。

2 commonwealth   

n.共和国，联邦，共同体

参考例句：

• He is the chairman of the commonwealth of artists.他是艺术家协会的主席。
• Most of the members of the Commonwealth are nonwhite.英联邦的许多成员国不是白人国家。

3 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

4 alleged   

a.被指控的，嫌疑的

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为

5 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

6 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。

7 waxwork   

n.蜡像

参考例句：

• The waxworker brought a new waxwork into the room.蜡制品工人把一个新蜡像搬进了屋。
• She's only a waxwork.她只是一座蜡像罢了。

8 creek   

n.小溪，小河，小湾

参考例句：

• He sprang through the creek.他跳过小河。
• People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴。

9 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。

10 laborers   

n.体力劳动者，工人( laborer的名词复数 )；（熟练工人的）辅助工

参考例句：

• Laborers were trained to handle 50-ton compactors and giant cranes. 工人们接受操作五十吨压土机和巨型起重机的训练。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• Wage-labour rests exclusively on competition between the laborers. 雇佣劳动完全是建立在工人的自相竞争之上的。 来自英汉非文学 - 共产党宣言