澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2015-06-09

 The treasurer¹ says the government crackdown on foreign investment in residential² real estate is showing results. Joe Hockey says the foreign investment review board is investigating almost 200 possible breaches³ of those rules. The government announced its crackdown last month amid concerns that foreign investors⁴ were helping⁵ to fuel a property bubble in Sydney and Melbourne. 

 

 

A man accused of demolishing⁶ a house and four cars with a stolen bulldozer will face court in New Castle today. Three people were inside the house at the time but managed to escape. Police had to smash the driver's cabin and use capsicum spray to subdue⁷ the man and stop the bulldozer. 

When next door, he screamed at us and get out as quick as back to the bulldozer *. When he seeing us, he abused us again and lifted up front of the, the bucket on the bulldozer, and come straight for the house. We just ran out of the front door, screaming. 

 

 

Bad matter in court today. Now Oscar Pistorius will be freed on parol after serving just ten months for shooting dead his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The South African athlete is due for release in August. Pistorius was found guilty of culpable⁸ homicide (an act which has resulted in a person's death but is held not to amount to murder) last year and sentenced to five years in jail. 

 

 

G7 leaders have wrapped up their two-day summit with a pledge to phase out fossil fuels by the end of the century. In the joint⁹ communique at the end of talks in Germany, they announced their commitment to de-carbonize the global economy.

1 treasurer   

n.司库，财务主管

参考例句：

• Mr. Smith was succeeded by Mrs.Jones as treasurer.琼斯夫人继史密斯先生任会计。
• The treasurer was arrested for trying to manipulate the company's financial records.财务主管由于试图窜改公司财政帐目而被拘留。

2 residential   

adj.提供住宿的；居住的；住宅的

参考例句：

• The mayor inspected the residential section of the city.市长视察了该市的住宅区。
• The residential blocks were integrated with the rest of the college.住宿区与学院其他部分结合在了一起。

3 breaches   

破坏( breach的名词复数 )； 破裂； 缺口； 违背

参考例句：

• He imposed heavy penalties for breaches of oath or pledges. 他对违反誓言和保证的行为给予严厉的惩罚。
• This renders all breaches of morality before marriage very uncommon. 这样一来，婚前败坏道德的事就少见了。

4 investors   

n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
• a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会

5 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。

6 demolishing   

v.摧毁( demolish的现在分词 )；推翻；拆毁（尤指大建筑物）；吃光

参考例句：

• The machine was designed specially for demolishing old buildings. 这种机器是专为拆毁旧楼房而设计的。 来自《用法词典》
• Conventional demolishing work would have caused considerable interruptions in traffic. 如果采用一般的拆除方法就要引起交通的严重中断。 来自辞典例句

7 subdue   

vt.制服，使顺从，征服；抑制，克制

参考例句：

• She tried to subdue her anger.她尽力压制自己的怒火。
• He forced himself to subdue and overcome his fears.他强迫自己克制并战胜恐惧心理。

8 culpable   

adj.有罪的，该受谴责的

参考例句：

• The judge found the man culpable.法官认为那个人有罪。
• Their decision to do nothing makes them culpable.他们不采取任何行动的决定使他们难辞其咎。

9 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。