英语听力：澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2013-12-27

 Perpetual Loyal's taken the lead as the Sydney to Hobart fleet heads towards Bass¹ Strait. It's a neck-and-neck tussle² for second place. Defending champion Wild Oats eleven has pulled ahead on Giacomo. Black Jack³ and Rajamuffin round out the top five.

 

Police have found the body of the man who held a woman and her teenage daughter hostage for more than five hours in Brisbane's north. Earlier, police rescued the pair who'd been shackled⁴ in a bathroom of the house in Banyo. The man's body was found in an upstairs room last night. 

 

A search will resume this morning for a canoeist missing in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales. Three men were thrown into the water when they canoe overturned in a dam in Crookwell last night. Two of them managed to make it to shore and raise the alarm. 

 

Convicted Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby has had her Indonesian jail sentence cut by two months. That's part of an annual Christmas remission program. Corby was sentenced to 20 years in jail in 2005 for smuggling⁵ more than four kilograms of Marijuana into Bali. 

 

The passengers and crew onboard a ship stuck in Antarctic ice since Christmas hope to be freed later today. The first of three ice-breaking ships is expected to reach it this afternoon. The ship had been retracing⁶ Sir Douglas Mawson's Antartic expedition and doing scientific research.

 

1 bass   

n.男低音(歌手)；低音乐器；低音大提琴

参考例句：

• He answered my question in a surprisingly deep bass.他用一种低得出奇的声音回答我的问题。
• The bass was to give a concert in the park.那位男低音歌唱家将在公园中举行音乐会。

2 tussle   

n.&v.扭打，搏斗，争辩

参考例句：

• They began to tussle with each other for the handgun.他们互相扭打起来，抢夺那支手枪。
• We are engaged in a legal tussle with a large pharmaceutical company.我们正同一家大制药公司闹法律纠纷。

3 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

4 shackled   

给（某人）带上手铐或脚镣( shackle的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The hostage had been shackled to a radiator. 当时人质被铐在暖气片上。
• He was shackled and in darkness of torment. 他被困在黑暗中备受煎熬。

5 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。

6 retracing   

v.折回( retrace的现在分词 )；回忆；回顾；追溯

参考例句：

• We're retracing the route of a deep explorer mission. 我们将折回一个深入的探险路线中去。 来自电影对白
• Retracing my steps was certainly not an option. 回顾我的脚步并不是个办法。 来自互联网