澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2012-08-24

 A huge police search continues for a young woman abducted¹ at gunpoint from a refuge in Darwin. Monique Edmundson was taken on Wednesday after two men forced their way in and fired several shots. Now, police believe one of them is her former partner Joshua Walsh, described as extremely dangerous.

 

 

 

Homicide detectives are questioning a man over a fatal stabbing in Melbourne. The body of the woman in her early 20s was found in a park in the city's northwest around 11:30 last night.

 

 

 

Mining magnet Gina Rinehart has tried unsuccessfully to sell a third of her shares in Fairfax Media. She has a 15 per cent-stake in the company and there were no takers for shares offered at 50 cents each. That was a cent below yesterday's closing price.

 

 

 

The first group of soldiers will fly to Nauru today to begin the job of rebuilding its offshore² processing centre. The government's hoping there'll be room for 500 asylum³ seekers by the end of September.

 

 

 

And emergency crews are cleaning up after a wild weather in New South Wales. Strong wind brought down 360 powerlines in Sydney and outlying regions. A crane was brought in to remove a fallen tree from a home in Roselands. At the peak of the storm, more than 20,000 homes and businesses were without power.

1 abducted   

劫持，诱拐( abduct的过去式和过去分词 )； 使（肢体等）外展

参考例句：

• Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
• The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。

2 offshore   

adj.海面的，吹向海面的；adv.向海面

参考例句：

• A big program of oil exploration has begun offshore.一个大规模的石油勘探计划正在近海展开。
• A gentle current carried them slowly offshore.和缓的潮流慢慢地把他们带离了海岸。

3 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。