澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2014-09-08

 Education Minister Christopher Pyne has denied he offered to help James Ashby in his sexual harassment¹ claim against former Speaker Peter Slipper². Mr. Ashby has told 60 Minites that Mr. Pyne offered to find him a lawyer and assured him a job and warned him not to go public about the offer. 

 

He said to me, you are a braver man than I am, as we exited, and said, if you discuss or tell anyone we've had this discussion, I'll be forced to come out publicly and call you a pathological liar³. 

 

Mr. Ashby speaking at 60 Minutes last night.

 

An elderly Australian woman has died and 14 other Australians have been injured in a bus crash in Kenya. The tour bus was on its way to a popular game reserve, when a tyre burst, and it plunged⁴ down a steep embankment. Ten Australians remain in hospital. 

 

US President Barack Obama will outline his strategy later this week to defeat Islamic State militants⁵. US has now extended airstrikes into western Iraq while Australia has completed its third delivery of military supplies to the Kurds in the country's north. 

 

A new study has revealed parents who let their children try alcohol may actually be encouraging them to take up drinking. The survey of nearly 2,000 families has found children given alcohol in their early teens are three times more likely to be drinking full serves by the time they are sixteen.

1 harassment   

n.骚扰，扰乱，烦恼，烦乱

参考例句：

• She often got telephone harassment at night these days.这些天她经常在夜晚受到电话骚扰。
• The company prohibits any form of harassment.公司禁止任何形式的骚扰行为。

2 slipper   

n.拖鞋

参考例句：

• I rescued the remains of my slipper from the dog.我从那狗的口中夺回了我拖鞋的残留部分。
• The puppy chewed a hole in the slipper.小狗在拖鞋上啃了一个洞。

3 liar   

n.说谎的人

参考例句：

• I know you for a thief and a liar!我算认识你了，一个又偷又骗的家伙！
• She was wrongly labelled a liar.她被错误地扣上说谎者的帽子。

4 plunged   

v.颠簸( plunge的过去式和过去分词 )；暴跌；骤降；突降

参考例句：

• The train derailed and plunged into the river. 火车脱轨栽进了河里。
• She lost her balance and plunged 100 feet to her death. 她没有站稳，从100英尺的高处跌下摔死了。

5 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。