澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2016-03-08

 

A bit after all at that time Insperity is smarter than his brother. Now some developing news this morning. Former world No.1 tennis player Maria Sharapova says she failed drug test at the Australia Open. In a Press Conference held just a short time ago, Sharapova has revealed a substance she's been taken for 10 years was put on the banned list in January this year and she didn't check that list. She says it's not clear if she will be banned or how long that ban might be for.

"I let my fans down, I let the sport down that I've been playing since the age of 4 that I've loved so deeply . I know they're with us. I face consequences and I don't wanna end my career this way." 

A clearly shudder¹ in Maria Sharapova over there.

There are calls this morning for a royal commission into the insurance industry after a joint² Four Corners Fairfax exposit into Commonwealth³ Bank's insurance arm. Comminsure's Former Chief medical officer has revealed doctors were pressured to rewrite medical opinions so the company could avoid payouts to sick and dying policy holders⁴. National senator John Williams says he expects there will be a royal commission. Labor's financial services spokesman Jim Chalmers says the government must consider one. The Commonwealth Bank's CEO Ian Narev has apologized to the customers involved.

1 shudder   

v.战粟，震动，剧烈地摇晃；n.战粟，抖动

参考例句：

• The sight of the coffin sent a shudder through him.看到那副棺材，他浑身一阵战栗。
• We all shudder at the thought of the dreadful dirty place.我们一想到那可怕的肮脏地方就浑身战惊。

2 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

3 commonwealth   

n.共和国，联邦，共同体

参考例句：

• He is the chairman of the commonwealth of artists.他是艺术家协会的主席。
• Most of the members of the Commonwealth are nonwhite.英联邦的许多成员国不是白人国家。

4 holders   

支持物( holder的名词复数 )； 持有者； （支票等）持有人； 支托（或握持）…之物

参考例句：

• Slaves were mercilessly ground down by slave holders. 奴隶受奴隶主的残酷压迫。
• It is recognition of compassion's part that leads the up-holders of capital punishment to accuse the abolitionists of sentimentality in being more sorry for the murderer than for his victim. 正是对怜悯的作用有了认识，才使得死刑的提倡者指控主张废除死刑的人感情用事，同情谋杀犯胜过同情受害者。