澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-07-08

The Prime Minister Julia Gillard is facing growing opposition¹ to her plan to process asylum² seekers in East Timor. The country's Deputy Prime Minister Jose Luis Guterres says the proposal is unlikely to be accepted. And a senior East Timorese politician says he doesn't want his country becoming a dumping ground for Australia's asylum seekers.

Suicide bomb attacks targeting pilgrims in Baghdad have killed 33 people and injured more than 100. One blast struck a crowd of Iraqi Shiite pilgrims on their way to a northern district shrine³ for a major festival. Earlier a roadside bomb in Baghdad killed at least six worshipers.

Authorities from Moscow and Washington are reportedly negotiating a spy swap⁴. The exchange will centre around 10 suspected Russian spies recently arrested in the US.

Britain has announced it will withdraw its soldiers from one of the most dangerous areas of Helmand province in Afghanistan. The British Defence Secretary Liam Fox says US forces will replace British troops in Sangin later this year. The UK has suffered its heaviest losses in the area with 99 deaths since 2001.

And Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she won't revive the Government's emissions⁵ trading scheme until at least 2013. The carbon pricing policy was shelved after failed negotiation⁶ with the Federal Opposition last year. Ms Gillard says she will revise the Government's climate change policy before the election.

1 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

2 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。

3 shrine   

n.圣地，神龛，庙；v.将...置于神龛内，把...奉为神圣

参考例句：

• The shrine was an object of pilgrimage.这处圣地是人们朝圣的目的地。
• They bowed down before the shrine.他们在神龛前鞠躬示敬。

4 swap   

n.交换；vt.交换，用...作交易

参考例句：

• I will swap you my bicycle for your radio.我想拿我的自行车换你的收音机。
• This comic was a swap that I got from Nick.这本漫画书是我从尼克那里换来的。

5 emissions   

排放物( emission的名词复数 )； 散发物（尤指气体）

参考例句：

• Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
• Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。

6 negotiation   

n.谈判，协商

参考例句：

• They closed the deal in sugar after a week of negotiation.经过一星期的谈判，他们的食糖生意成交了。
• The negotiation dragged on until July.谈判一直拖到7月份。