澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-09-01
时间：2018-12-11 作者：英语课 分类：澳洲ABC新闻快递2011年
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The future of offshore 1 processing of asylum 2 seekers is in doubt after yesterday's High Court ruling against the Malaysia solution. Federal Cabinet has been holding crisis talks. Immigration Minister Chris Bowen isn't ruling out reopening the detention 3 centre on Nauru and reintroducing temporary protection visas.
BlueScope Steel workers will be holding a mass meeting at Wollongong this morning. They are angry about the axing of 800 jobs at the company's Port Kembla plant. Union leaders will report back about their discussions with management and their concerns about redundancy payments.
Libya's rebels say they've arrested Muammar Gaddafi's foreign minister at his farm west of Tripoli. And in another blow to the crumbling 4 Gaddafi regime, one of his sons is trying to negotiate his surrender. Rebel commanders say Al-Saadi Gaddafi has contacted them, asking if his safety can be guaranteed.
Three suicide bombers 5 have killed at least eight people in the Chechen capital Grozny. They struck during celebrations to mark the end of Ramadan. Six of the dead are police officers. It appears the first blast was used to attract them to the scene. Another 22 people were injured in the bombing.
And it's a food fight on a grand scale. The Spanish town of Bunol is celebrating its annual Tomatina festival. It involved about 40,000 people pelting 6 each other with 120 tonnes of squashed tomatoes for an hour.
1 offshore
adj.海面的，吹向海面的；adv.向海面
- A big program of oil exploration has begun offshore.一个大规模的石油勘探计划正在近海展开。
- A gentle current carried them slowly offshore.和缓的潮流慢慢地把他们带离了海岸。
2 asylum
n.避难所，庇护所，避难
- 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。
3 detention
n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下
- 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。
4 crumbling
adj.摇摇欲坠的
- an old house with crumbling plaster and a leaking roof 一所灰泥剥落、屋顶漏水的老房子
- The boat was tied up alongside a crumbling limestone jetty. 这条船停泊在一个摇摇欲坠的石灰岩码头边。