英语听力：澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2014-03-07

 Crimea plans to hold a referendum in ten days' time to vote on breaking away from Ukraine and joining Russia. U.S. President Barack Obama says the move breaches¹ international law and has issued travel bans on some Russian and Ukrainian officials.

 

Homicide detectives are investigating the death of a new-born baby in Melbourne's west. Police found the infant's body on a footpath² in St Albans yesterday afternoon. Police have questioned an 18-year-old woman and an autopsy³ has been conducted to determine how that baby died.

 

An elderly woman has died in a house fire in Sydney's west. The house at Jamisontown was well alight when fire crews arrived early this morning. A 71-year-old woman was found inside the home. Paramedics did try to revive her,but she died at the scene.

 

Now Foreign Minister Julie Bishop⁴ says the government is leaving no stone unturned in its efforts to help Australian journalist Peter Greste. Mr.Greste has been languishing⁵ in an Egyptian jail for more than two months. He's on trial, facing terrorism charges.

 

A neighbour has told the Oscar Pistorius murder trial how he found the paralympian praying over the body of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp as she lay dying. Johan Stipp told the court he heard streams and gunshots on the morning of the shooting. He says he went to the house to offer help and tried to revive Ms. Steenkamp.

1 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。

2 footpath   

n.小路，人行道

参考例句：

• Owners who allow their dogs to foul the footpath will be fined.主人若放任狗弄脏人行道将受处罚。
• They rambled on the footpath in the woods.他俩漫步在林间蹊径上。

3 autopsy   

n.尸体解剖；尸检

参考例句：

• They're carrying out an autopsy on the victim.他们正在给受害者验尸。
• A hemorrhagic gut was the predominant lesion at autopsy.尸检的主要发现是肠出血。

4 bishop   

n.主教，（国际象棋）象

参考例句：

• He was a bishop who was held in reverence by all.他是一位被大家都尊敬的主教。
• Two years after his death the bishop was canonised.主教逝世两年后被正式封为圣者。

5 languishing   

a. 衰弱下去的

参考例句：

• He is languishing for home. 他苦思家乡。
• How long will she go on languishing for her red-haired boy? 为想见到她的红头发的儿子，她还将为此烦恼多久呢？