澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2014-10-02

 Federal Opposition¹ Leader Bill Shorten says the Prime Minister should keep his opinions on the burkas himself. Tony Abbott says he finds such facial coverings confronting and would prefer that wasn't worn in Australia. Mr. Shorten says he is disappointed by these comments and the Prime Minister should be promoting social cohesion². 

 

Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters are threatening to ramp³ up their campaign. Protest leaders say they could start occupying government buildings if the city's leader C. Y. Leung does not resign by the end of today. 

 

The organization responsible for ranking the world's universities has questioned the Federal Government's plan to deregulate fees. Twelve Australian universities have improved their positions in the latest world rankings, eight of them are now in the Top 200. But the Times Higher Education magazine which compiles the rankings says fee deregulation could harm Australia's smaller universities. 

 

But the risk is that you create winner and losers and the losers in Australia may suddenly find themselves falling out of these rankings because the current sustained fee levels and they are not getting the public taxpayer⁴ dollar to support them in addition to the fees. 

 

Phil Baty there. 

 

Now there's growing speculation⁵ that Essendon could dump Coach James Hird when the club's board meets today. Tensions have been rising since Hird decided⁶ to appeal a Federal court ruling on the doping scandal involving the club.

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 cohesion   

n.团结，凝结力

参考例句：

• I had to bring some cohesion into the company.我得使整个公司恢复凝聚力。
• The power of culture is deeply rooted in the vitality,creativity and cohesion of a nation. 文化的力量，深深熔铸在民族的生命力、创造力和凝聚力之中。

3 ramp   

n.暴怒，斜坡，坡道；vi.作恐吓姿势，暴怒，加速；vt.加速

参考例句：

• That driver drove the car up the ramp.那司机将车开上了斜坡。
• The factory don't have that capacity to ramp up.这家工厂没有能力加速生产。

4 taxpayer   

n.纳税人

参考例句：

• The new scheme will run off with a lot of the taxpayer's money.这项新计划将用去纳税人许多钱。
• The taxpayer are unfavourably disposed towards the recent tax increase.纳税者对最近的增加税收十分反感。

5 speculation   

n.思索，沉思；猜测；投机

参考例句：

• Her mind is occupied with speculation.她的头脑忙于思考。
• There is widespread speculation that he is going to resign.人们普遍推测他要辞职。

6 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。