澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2014-10-21

 A track has clogged¹ with several cars causing traffic chaos² in the Sydney's   Deep South suburb of D. Y. Emergency crews are trying to free those trapped in the wreckage³ and fuel is leaking from one of the cars. Motorists are being asked to avoid that area. 

 

The ABC has found that authorities in regional Australia are unable to deal with the rise of the drug ice particularly among young people. Four Corners has found evidence that children as young as 11 have been recruited to help outlaw⁴ bikie gangs manufacture and distribute the drug. 

 

When I hit, yeah, I mean ….

 

That's Ben Davies from at Four Corners last night. 

 

Now rescuers are scaling back their search for survivors⁵ from the deadly snowstorm in Nepal. The death toll⁶ now stands at 40, and several Australians including Simon Wild and his 17-year-old daughter Sophie are among those unaccounted for. 

 

Tony Abbott has just arrived back in Canberra after attending the inauguration⁷ of Indonesia's new president Joko Widodo. The pair held their first meeting after the ceremony. The Prime Minister invited Mr. Widodo to attend next month's G-20 Meeting in Brisbane, but he is yet to decide whether he'll attend. 

 

And the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's second child will be born in April next year. News, news of the due date was released in a statement from Kensington Palace overnight.

1 clogged   

（使）阻碍( clog的过去式和过去分词 )； 淤滞

参考例句：

• The narrow streets were clogged with traffic. 狭窄的街道上交通堵塞。
• The intake of gasoline was stopped by a clogged fuel line. 汽油的注入由于管道阻塞而停止了。

2 chaos   

n.混乱，无秩序

参考例句：

• After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后，城市一片混乱。
• The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。

3 wreckage   

n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏

参考例句：

• They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
• New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。

4 outlaw   

n.歹徒，亡命之徒；vt.宣布…为不合法

参考例句：

• The outlaw hid out in the hills for several months.逃犯在山里隐藏了几个月。
• The outlaw has been caught.歹徒已被抓住了。

5 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

6 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。

7 inauguration   

n.开幕、就职典礼

参考例句：

• The inauguration of a President of the United States takes place on January 20.美国总统的就职典礼于一月二十日举行。
• Three celebrated tenors sang at the president's inauguration.3位著名的男高音歌手在总统就职仪式上演唱。