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[News] 跟我一起学 澳洲新闻里的英语单词

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 楼主| 发表于 20-7-2011 14:46:25 | 只看该作者

日本摇滚明星在飞机上捣乱被逮捕后死亡

Japanese rocker dies after violent outburst on Delta flight to US Pacific islands

From correspondents in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands  From: AFP   July 18, 2011 1:26PM

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/japanese-rocker-dies-after-violent-outburst-on-delta-flight-to-us-pacific-islands/story-e6frfku0-1226096846356

A JAPANESE rock musician who tried to hang himself after being arrested following unruly behaviour on a Delta Air Lines flight to the US-administered Northern Mariana Islands has died in hospital.

Rocker Taiji Sawada, who was best known as the former bass player with heavy metal group "X", died today when medics at Saipan's Commonwealth Health Centre turned off his life support, the Saipan Tribune reported.

The Marianas Variety newspaper reported that Sawada, 45, had been in intensive care since July 14 after he tried to hang himself with a bedsheet in a jail in the Pacific territory.

He had been arrested three days before for allegedly assaulting a female cabin crew attendant during a Delta Air Lines flight from Tokyo to Saipan, court documents showed.

The documents, filed on the Northern Marianas District Court, said the flight attendant went to the business class section after hearing banging and found Sawada struggling with a female passenger.


The crew member said a number of male passengers helped her subdue the musician and move him to another chair but he caused another commotion, punching windows and kicking seats, as the plane prepared to descend to Saipan.

Eventually, the plane's captain ordered Sawada to be placed in physical restraints and he was arrested after the flight landed, the court documents said. No reason was given for Sawada's behaviour.

Sawada enjoyed success with "X" in the late 1980s but left in 1992 and since then had played in various other bands, according to fan websites.


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unruly
- If you describe people as unruly, you mean that they behave badly and are difficult to control.

subdue
- If soldiers or the police subdue a group of people, they defeat them or bring them under control by using force.

commotion
- A commotion is a lot of noise and confusion.
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 楼主| 发表于 21-7-2011 15:53:32 | 只看该作者

悉尼23年来最“水”的7月 - 很多跟水有关的单词

Wild weather drenched coastal NSW yesterday with sodden Sydney recording its wettest July day in 23 years
Neil Keene  From: The Daily Telegraph   July 21, 2011 12:00AM

Read more: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au ... 77443#ixzz1SiBgY5if

WILD weather drenched coastal NSW yesterday with sodden Sydney recording its wettest July day in 23 years - and you better get used it.

Almost 80mm of rain fell in the Sydney CBD, and experts are tipping the rain will continue until next week.

"It's just miserable, at least for the next few days," Weather Channel meteorologist Hannah McEwan said.

The record downpour almost ended in tragedy for one seven-year-old boy, who slipped into a stormwater drain and was swept away. The torrent carried him beneath a roadway near Newcastle for more than 50m before he managed to cling to the side of the drain and call for help.

SES crews were later called to the Corpus Christi Primary School at St Ives, in Sydney's north, after torrential rain flooded part of the campus.

A severe weather warning for dangerous surf remained in place from the south coast to the mid north coast last night, with offshore wave heights of up to 10m.

Ms McEwan said waves pounding the coastline would continue to grow to a peak of about 4m tomorrow.

The deluge brought down trees and tore open roofs from the Illawarra to the mid-north coast, prompting more than 250 calls for help to the SES.

A 10m eucalyptus smashed four demountable classrooms at the Mt Warrigal Public School School south of Wollongong.


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drench
- To drench sth. or someone means to make them completely wet.

sodden
- Something that is sodden is extremely wet.

deluge
- A deluge is a sudden heavy fall of rain.

torrent
- A torrent is a lot of water falling or flowing rapidly or violently.
(BTW, 平时下载用的BT软件,其实就是BitTorrent的缩写,一种P2P数据传输协议)
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 楼主| 发表于 25-7-2011 14:36:20 | 只看该作者

雷人的假苹果店在昆明被曝光

Fake Apple stores found in Kunming city, China
21 July 2011 Last updated at 14:24 GMT
For more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14236786

An American blogger has discovered three fake Apple stores operating in Kunming city, China.

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Shoddy construction

On closer inspection, wrote BirdAbroad, the store did not seem to be constructed to a particularly high standard.

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其实不算新闻了。上星期开始这则新闻被各大网站报道,觉得还是想分享一下。

通篇没啥生词,除了这个:

shoddy
- If you discribe a product or someone's work as shoddy, you think that it has been made or done carelessly or badly.
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发表于 27-7-2011 14:46:17 | 只看该作者
喜欢看你的帖子,加油,
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 楼主| 发表于 28-7-2011 14:32:20 | 只看该作者

看了以后感觉很震撼 需要思考一下自己能为他们做些什么

Baby Mihag, the anguished face of famine in East Africa
http://www.news.com.au/world/bab ... rfkyi-1226103135263

看了那些照片和新闻,啥也不说了。  正在思考和研究自己能做些什么。

那个页面最下面有关于donate的一些信息。
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发表于 29-7-2011 14:35:41 | 只看该作者
原帖由 ghrong 于 17-3-2010 15:37 发表
The Daily Telegraph March 17, 2010 3:11am

A HEAVILY pregnant woman dressed in only in her pyjamas ran screaming from her house, chasing a burglar she had just found lurking inside.

Beating her h ...


想问个阅读理解的问题:这个孕妇为什么在追贼的时候还要打自己的丈夫?


Pregnant mum Tammy Matten chases thief from her home
The Daily Telegraph March 17, 2010 3:11am

A HEAVILY pregnant woman dressed in only in her pyjamas ran screaming from her house, chasing a burglar she had just found lurking inside.

Beating her husband out the door, mother-of-two Tammy Matten hurtled down the street, keeping up her barefoot pursuit for more than 200m before the thief finally got away.
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 楼主| 发表于 29-7-2011 19:36:46 | 只看该作者
原帖由 hwl 于 29-7-2011 13:35 发表


想问个阅读理解的问题:这个孕妇为什么在追贼的时候还要打自己的丈夫?


Pregnant mum Tammy Matten chases thief from her home
The Daily Telegraph March 17, 2010 3:11am

A HEAVILY pregnant woman  ...



这里的beat不是打的意思,而是“胜过”。所以她的老公要不是个残疾人士,就是个胆小鬼。否则怎么会被一个大肚皮甩在后面?
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 楼主| 发表于 29-7-2011 19:40:12 | 只看该作者
还想到一种可能,该孕妇可能是个跑步运动员,即使大着肚子,也比老公跑得快。
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发表于 3-8-2011 17:22:40 | 只看该作者
原帖由 ghrong 于 18-3-2010 14:23 发表
From: AAP March 16, 2010 3:51pm

A YOUNG Sydney man who admitted to the brutal bashing of Irishman David Keohane has been found not guilty of his attempted murder by a Sydney jury.

Mr Keohane, 29 ...


好惨啊!!!
Man not guilty of Irishman's brutal bashing
是说因为他喝醉了,所以就白打了??
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发表于 3-8-2011 17:23:41 | 只看该作者
原帖由 ghrong 于 29-7-2011 18:40 发表
还想到一种可能,该孕妇可能是个跑步运动员,即使大着肚子,也比老公跑得快。


这个女人太强了
彪悍
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发表于 10-8-2011 14:47:27 | 只看该作者
原帖由 ghrong 于 22-3-2010 17:29 发表
Woman kills boyfriend on Xmas Day, texts friend to see if he'd like to help eat body
From: AAP March 22, 2010 1:54pm

MOMENTS after she stabbed her boyfriend to death on Christmas Day, a NSW Centra ...


这女的简直就是 变态
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