澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2009-10-27
时间：2018-12-11 作者：英语课 分类：澳洲ABC新闻快递2009年
One of the convicted killers 1 of heart surgeon Victor Chang is to be released next month. Victor Chang was killed in 1991 during a kidnap attempt on his way to work at Sydney’s St Vincent's Hospital. Phillip Choon Tee Lim was convicted of the murder the same year and will have served his minimum sentence of eighteen years as of November 11th.
An Australian customs ship carrying 78 Sri Lankan asylum 2 seekers remains 3 anchored off the Indonesian coast. The group was expected to be transferred to an Australian-funded detention 4 center yesterday morning. It is believed Indonesian Immigration officials yesterday started processing the asylum seekers while at sea.
Security forces in Iraq were on high alert the day after two suicide bombs ripped through Baghdad, the death toll 5 from the blast has risen to 155 and more than 500 people were injured. The Iraqi government says the bombings were an attempt to prevent elections in January.
And a new report predicts that one in seven Australians will suffer type 2 diabetes 6 by the year 2050. That's double the present level of the people with the disease. The dramatic increase will cost the nation more than 14 billion dollars a year, the office of the study have called for greater government investment in the disease.
We will have more news later.
- He remained steadfast in his determination to bring the killers to justice. 他要将杀人凶手绳之以法的决心一直没有动摇。
- They were professional killers who did in John. 杀死约翰的这些人是职业杀手。
- The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
- Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
- He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
- He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。