澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2014-09-11

 Two men will face court in Brisbane today on terrorism-related charges. They are accused of recruiting and funding people to fight in Syria. The men were arrested during a series of raids across Brisbane yesterday. 

 

And we are talking about a broad swath across the Middle East which as I said it is drawing foreign fighters from all around the world and that presents a threat whether it is Australia, the United Kingdom, or many other places. 

 

Scott Morrison there. 

 

Now US president Barack Obama will outline his plan to fight Islamic State militants¹ in an address to his own nation later this morning. His Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Baghdad on the first leg of a Middle East tour to drive up support for international action. 

 

And ultimately our global coalition² will succeed in eliminating the threat from Iraq, from the region, and from the world. 

 

Mr. John Kerry there. 

 

Now a search is resuming this morning for a three-year-old boy feared drowned in a creek³ in Melbourne's southeast. The boy was playing with his family on the riverbank when he fell into the creek at Dandenong yesterday afternoon. 

 

And the man dubbed⁴ the Blade Runner will learn his fate later today. The judge in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial is due to hand down her verdict. The South African athlete is accused of deliberately⁵ shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on St. Valentine's Day last year.

1 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。

2 coalition   

n.结合体，同盟，结合，联合

参考例句：

• The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
• Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。

3 creek   

n.小溪，小河，小湾

参考例句：

• He sprang through the creek.他跳过小河。
• People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴。

4 dubbed   

v.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 )；把…称为；配音；复制

参考例句：

• Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
• Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的？ 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 deliberately   

adv.审慎地；蓄意地；故意地

参考例句：

• The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
• They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。