澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2013-08-09

 Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott will hold their first campaign debate on Sunday. The debate will be held at the National Press Club in Canberra. It will be the first of several debates over the course of the campaign. 

 

The ABC’s been told some asylum¹ seekers in Indonesia are now rethinking their plans to travel through Australia by boats in the wake of the PNG deal. The ABC’s been told some Iranians are even thinking about returning home, while other asylum seekers are asking people smugglers for their money back.

 

A man's in custody² after a shooting rampage in Texas, killing³ at least four people and injuring another four. Police say he attacked two houses about ten kilometres apart in the city of Dallas. They say he detonated at least one explosive device during the attack.

 

A US grand jury has indicted⁴ two students from Kazakhstan on obstruction⁵ of justice charges for allegedly helping⁶ to destroy evidence linked to the Boston bombings. The two 19-year-olds were college friends of the surviving suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. They allegedly remove a backpack containing fireworks and a laptop from his dorm room.

 

And yet another blow to Labor’s mining tax has been revealed. Mining giant Rio Tinto has paid nothing during its first year. Fairfax is this morning reporting pre-payments made by the company in April and have now been refunded⁷ by the tax office. The tax has been forecast to raise four million dollars over the next four years.

1 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。

2 custody   

n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留

参考例句：

• He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
• He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。

3 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

4 indicted   

控告，起诉( indict的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The senator was indicted for murder. 那位参议员被控犯谋杀罪。
• He was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of murder. 他被大陪审团以两项谋杀罪名起诉。

5 obstruction   

n.阻塞，堵塞；障碍物

参考例句：

• She was charged with obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his duty.她被指控妨碍警察执行任务。
• The road was cleared from obstruction.那条路已被清除了障碍。

6 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

7 refunded   

v.归还，退还( refund的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Postage costs will be refunded (to you). 邮费将退还（给你）。 来自辞典例句
• Yes, it will be refunded to you at the expiration of the lease. 是的，租约期满时，押金退回。 来自无师自通 校园英语会话