澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 女子因蓄意杀害自己3个孩子获刑26年 气旋莫拉袭击孟加拉国

Hello, Joanna Nicolson with the latest headlines from ABC News.

大家好，澳大利亚广播公司的乔安娜·尼科尔森为您报道重点新闻。

A gunman has been shot dead in a dramatic end to a siege in the Lockyer Valley. Rick Maddison was shot after a 19-hour stand-off with police. He had been holed up in a farmhouse¹ after fatally shooting senior constable² Brett Forte³.

一名枪手被击毙，戏剧性地结束了洛克耶谷的围攻。里克·麦迪森在同警方对峙了19个小时以后被击毙。他在枪杀高级警员布莱特·福特后，一直躲在一个农舍中。

A Melbourne woman who killed her three children two years ago has been sentenced to 26-and-a-half-years in jail. Akon Guode was found deliberately⁴ driving her children into a lake. The judge said if she had not pleaded guilty to killing⁵ her children, she would have been locked up for life.

一名在两年前谋杀了自己3个孩子的母亲被判处26年零6个月监禁。阿肯·古德蓄意将载有自己孩子的车辆开进湖中。法官表示，如果她不承认谋杀自己的孩子，那她将会被判终身监禁。

The tax office has conceded allegations of a 130-million dollar tax fraud syndicate have damaged the agency. Tax chief Chris Jordan has given his first account of how it froze-out its deputy commissioner⁶ once his son fell under a massive fraud investigation⁷. He told the senate that Michael Cranston never accessed any information about the multi-million dollar syndicate.

澳大利亚税务局承认，涉案金额高达1.3亿美元的税务欺诈大案对税务局造成了破坏。澳大利亚税务局局长克里斯·乔丹首次对税务局副局长被解职一事进行了说明，原因是副局长的儿子正在接受大规模税务欺诈调查。乔丹对参议院表示，迈克尔·克兰斯顿从未获得任何与涉案金额达数百万美元的大案有关的信息。

And Cyclone⁸ Mora has hit Bangladesh, lashing⁹ the country's south-eastern coast with heavy rain and destructive winds. Authorities have been working to evacuate¹⁰ up to half-a-million people to shelters.

气旋“莫拉”袭击孟加拉国，导致该国东南海岸出现暴雨和破坏性大风。有关部门正努力将50万名居民疏散至避难所。

And those are the latest headlines from ABC News.

以上是澳大利亚广播公司为您报道的重点新闻。

1 farmhouse   

n.农场住宅（尤指主要住房）

参考例句：

• We fell for the farmhouse as soon as we saw it.我们对那所农舍一见倾心。
• We put up for the night at a farmhouse.我们在一间农舍投宿了一夜。

2 constable   

n.(英国)警察，警官

参考例句：

• The constable conducted the suspect to the police station.警官把嫌疑犯带到派出所。
• The constable kept his temper,and would not be provoked.那警察压制着自己的怒气，不肯冒起火来。

3 forte   

n.长处，擅长；adj.(音乐)强音的

参考例句：

• Her forte is playing the piano.她擅长弹钢琴。
• His forte is to show people around in the company.他最拿手的就是向大家介绍公司。

4 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。

5 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

6 commissioner   

n.（政府厅、局、处等部门）专员，长官，委员

参考例句：

• The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
• He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。

7 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

8 cyclone   

n.旋风，龙卷风

参考例句：

• An exceptionally violent cyclone hit the town last night.昨晚异常猛烈的旋风吹袭了那个小镇。
• The cyclone brought misery to thousands of people.旋风给成千上万的人带来苦难。

9 lashing   

n.鞭打；痛斥；大量；许多v.鞭打( lash的现在分词 )；煽动；紧系；怒斥

参考例句：

• The speaker was lashing the crowd. 演讲人正在煽动人群。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The rain was lashing the windows. 雨急打着窗子。 来自《简明英汉词典》

10 evacuate   

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

参考例句：

• We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
• They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。