用法学习: 1. In 2016 NSW scrapped time limits 取消时效限制 on civil action by survivors of child sexual abuse, paving the way for historical claims. Alleged unethical behavior between teachers and students grew out of a bikini and beach culture championed in the 1980s on Sydney's northern beaches, according to the podcast. A group of teachers would regularly mix alongside students at a local northern beaches pub, buying the impressionable, underage teenagers drinks, the podcast claimed. Any teachers embroiled in allegations should have their career moves through the school system tracked and investigated, Labor‘s education spokesman Jihad Dib told nine.com.au last month. Dawson's wife, Lynette, mysteriously disappeared from their Sydney home in 1982. Over the course of 1981, Dawson's affair with schoolgirl Ms Curtis caused the painful disintegration 瓦解 of his marriage to Lyn, who was a mother to their two young girls. After Lyn's disappearance, Dawson left Cromer High, where his affair with Ms Curtis was something of an open secret, and began teaching at nearby Beacon Hill High. 2. 加拿大给予澳大利亚人难民身份: Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) granted Stevan Utah refugee status after hearing evidence about how he had acted as an undercover informant for the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) during an operation against bikie gangs in 2006, the ABC reported on Monday. The decision by the IRB is considered highly unusual given Mr Utah comes from Australia, which while a democratic country has been found to be lacking when it came to protecting him. Mr Utah, a former soldier, fled Australia after his cover was blown 卧底被识破, 身份败露, 卧底身份拆穿, 卧底被揭穿 and Bandidos members tried to kill him on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. The IRB ruled that Mr Utah had presented "clear and convincing evidence" of the failure by Australian authorities to provide him with adequate protection from the Bandidos. "I do find that the claimant would more likely than not face a serious risk to his life, almost immediately on his return to Australia," IRB member Jodie Schmalzbauer wrote in a judgment obtained by the ABC. "What was done to me years ago is not the cause of current serving members of policing agencies ... nor did the sitting [federal] government do this to me," he told the ABC. "But the institutions they currently serve most certainly did." Mr Utah had given the ACC information about serious crimes, including the murder of Victorian man Earl Mooring, during his time as an informant. 3. Tonga called on Pacific islands to band together against China — then had a sudden change of heart: Mr Pohiva wanted to join forces with other Pacific Island nations struggling with the same problem. And they would use the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) — the region's premier diplomatic gathering — as a platform to lobby Beijing for debt relief. At around 6:30pm on Friday (Tonga time), Mr Pohiva's office issued a press statement announcing the Prime Minster had changed his mind. About everything. "After further reflection, I now believe that the Pacific Islands Forum is not the proper platform to discuss this debt issue," Mr Pohiva's statement said. The about-face 态度大转变 was as absolute as it was sudden. And it left a lot of questions unanswered. Why the change of heart? Did China complain, or threaten consequences? Or did something else prompt the Prime Minister's startling retraction? But it seems he first widely canvassed his contentious plan to draw PIF into the controversy during a meeting of Pacific Island Foreign Ministers on August 10 in Samoa. He told the Observer that Pacific leaders should sign a "submission … asking the Chinese Government to forgive 免除债务 their debts". Beijing might be more willing to listen to the pleas of countries like Tonga, he said, if leaders at PIF in Nauru in next month issued a joint statement calling on China to show lenience. The ABC interviewed Mr Pohiva on August 16, and he was adamant that Pacific Island countries should work together to press China to back down on repayments 偿还. "China has to take into consideration all the countries that have loans," he said. The suggestion was contentious because it revived a fraught debate about China's strategic ambitions in an increasingly contested region. Australia remains the largest donor to the Pacific by a wide margin, but it's become increasingly anxious about the amount of Chinese debt taken on by some Pacific nations, and the leverage this gives to officials in Beijing. The ABC has been told that China did raise objections to the Tongan Prime Minister's plan, and made a complaint. But the nature of that complaint — and its force 抗议的力度和等级 and magnitude — are not clear. But he said it is also possible that other Pacific nations heavied Mr Pohiva because they wanted to avoid PIF being consumed by a messy debate about China. "The other possibility is that other members of PIF told him to pull his head in," he said. Even if Mr Pohiva had stuck to his guns, he may have faced an uphill struggle 重重阻力(jump through hoops informal to have to do a lot of things that seem difficult or unnecessary in order to achieve something: We had to jump through hoops to get my Dad admitted to hospital. ) to push the issue to centre stage at PIF. Dr Smith said many Pacific Island nations were in a much better financial position than Tonga and still have an appetite for loans from overseas. "Things look very different, depending where you are in the Pacific." Of course, that doesn't make Tonga's position any less excruciating. "They have some reason to feel hard done by," Dr Smith said. "The Chinese contractor at the centre of this loan gave assurances privately to Tongan Government officials not to worry, that down the line this debt would be forgiven." Dr Smith said his research shows this is a common pattern in the Pacific. "This is part of the pitch when a loan is being sold at the beginning. And it's disingenuous 不诚恳的, 不真诚的( [ˌdɪsɪnˈdʒenjuəs] not really honest or sincere, and only pretending to be.)," Dr Smith said. "China does forgive loans, but only zero interest loans. It has almost no record of forgiving concessional loans." So even if Pacific leaders don't breathe a word about debt 不吐一个字 and China when they sit down for formal meetings — there might be plenty of chatter in the corridors just outside the room. 3. 隐形眼镜: This is a good thing when it comes to contact lenses, because, he said, you don't want them to degrade 降解, 分解 in the user's eye, which could impair vision or become a breeding ground 滋生地 for bacteria. 希腊危机解除: Greece has successfully completed a three-year eurozone emergency loan programme worth €61.9bn (£55bn; $70.8bn) to tackle its debt crisis. It was part of the biggest bailout in global financial history, totalling some €289bn, which will take the country decades to repay. Deeply unpopular cuts to public spending, a condition of the bailout, are set to continue. But for the first time in eight years, Greece can borrow at market rates. The economy has grown slowly in recent years and is still 25% smaller than when the crisis began. "From today, Greece will be treated like any other Europe area country," the EU's Commissioner on Economic and Financial Affairs, Pierre Moscovici, said on Monday. Its reforms had, he said, "laid the foundation for a sustainable recovery 经济复苏" but he also cautioned that its recovery was "not an event 不是可以一蹴而就的, it is a process 需要一个过程". Fifty-four-year-old Fotini, who was laid off three years ago, is one of the few who will speak openly. This proud nation has struggled to accept its loss of dignity 尊严尽失. "I don't see the crisis coming to an end," she says. "We are stressed and angry because we don't have jobs. I'm embarrassed that I can't buy my little grandchildren a present. We just want to live comfortably in our own homes so we can look our children in the eyes." Those employed often have jobs for which they are overqualified, such as chemistry graduate Panagiota Kalliakmani, 34. Seeing career prospects in her home city of Thessaloniki shattered, she is now finding work as a chef. "The crisis was a slap in the face 一记耳光," she told AFP news agency. "We had grown up accustomed to the benefits of living in a European country and suddenly everything came crashing down." Some 300,000 Greeks have emigrated in search of work since the crisis began while those depending on state benefits have seen their income whittled away. 4. I drop the ball 失误, 做错, 出错, 疏漏 all the time as a parent. tongue-lashing a loud or severe scolding. "the incensed boss gave him a tongue-lashing". Did you give him the tongue lashing when he lost your boys? swing of things (idiomatic, usually preceded by the) The normal flow and rhythm of daily life or of activities in a specific field. get into the swing of it/things informal to start to understand, enjoy, and be active in something: I hadn't worked in an office for several years, so it took me a while to get back into the swing of it. back into the swing of things (back to the salt mines 回到工作上) to return to and become reaccustomed to something that hasn't been done for some time. a dog's breakfast something or someone that looks extremely untidy, or something that is very badly done.
The Bachelor: Nick 'Honey Badger' Cummins can be a polarising specimen to the uninitiated ( [ˌʌnɪˈnɪʃiˌeɪtəd] I. lacking knowledge or experience of something. II. Having little experience or a low level of education. a. the uninitiated 没有经验的, 不了解情况的, 初来乍到的 people who lack knowledge or experience. The labels can be a bit confusing for the uninitiated. ). For example, if you were one of 25 women who had gone on a dating show to find the love of your life, only to meet a mountain of a man, with a well-defined moustache and a rather heavy-handed take on the Australian vernacular. And while we as a nation have taken to 喜欢上 his unique charms(I. to begin to like someone or something. I took to John immediately. II. to start doing something as a habit. take to doing something: Recently he's taken to wearing a cap. III. old-fashioned to go to a place, especially your bed. Joanne says she's ill, and she's taken to her bed.), apparently not all of this year's Bachelor contestants were as enthusiastic. According to NW Magazine, a secret source said at times producers had to calm down certain Bachelorettes who threatened to leave only days into filming. Nick's not your typical Bachelor – he has a curly mullet, a slug 一撮小胡子 on his top lip and a very distinct ocker accent. But that's the beauty of him! Bachelors in the past have all been cut from the same cloth 同样的货色 – they're all model types and, to be frank, some of them were actually a little boring! Alas flighty contestants were told "not to make any rash decisions" and to "decide after getting to know him properly," which is a fair statement to make.
Happy Valley: 1. Don't worry, it wasn't a police matter 不需要叫警察. You never finished telling me your story. Oh, I changed my mind. It wasn't really a police matter. blow sth out of proportion to treat a particular event or problem far too seriously: It's ridiculous - we have a tiny disagreement and you blow the whole thing out of proportion! Of course, when the papers get hold of a story, it's blown out of all proportion. blow sb out UK informal to disappoint someone by not meeting them or not doing something that you had arranged to do together: Er, his friend he were going to, he's got a sore throat, so we got blown out at the last minute. She was supposed to go to that party with me, but she blew me out (got blown out last minute). 2. You know the scrotes, the dropouts, the numpties with nothing going on in their lives, you can not condone it, but you can more easily see it, get it, understand it, almost. But someone like him, apart from the hypocrisy. Yeah, well, it takes all sorts, doesn't it? No, I didn't mean you. I wasn't thinking about you. You just got in with the wrong crowd, didn't you? Well, it sounds like he's blown it as regards being a councillor when all this comes out. You're joking! He'll get some smartarse lawyer to tidy it all up for him, to spin it, to twist it, the Teflon twat. Nothing'll stick. You watch. Did you have to hand him over to drug squad? Oh, yeah. First dabs, every time. I just tidy the streets, me. 3. Where is she? She's fine. She's lovely. She's spent a very comfortable night. 'Let's keep it that way, eh?' Is she? Has she? 'So, tomorrow. ' McDonald's drive-thru just off Huddersfield ring road. 'I want to speak to her. ' Let's see how we get on tomorrow first 看看明天情况怎么样吧, Nev, eh? Then we'll see about letting you speak to her. We'd like an initial instalment. By way of showing willing( show willing 显示意愿 British display a willingness to help. To indicate one's willingness; to acquiesce, co-operate. to show that you are willing to do something. They had shown willing by attending the meeting.). 20 grand. 'Cash, obviously. 'And I don't want you dropping it. ' I want that irritating little twat of an accountant you've got. 4. Catherine. Ooh, been in the wars 打仗了(嘴伤成那样)? What happened? Went straight into the back of her. Couldn't stop in time. She must have slammed her brakes on, everyone's piled in behind. My constable radio'd me to say she'd asked you to take a breathalyser test and you weren't right keen. Is there a reason for that? Ah, come on. It's quarter past eight in the morning, I'm not going to stand here looking like I've had vodka for breakfast. People know who I am. She wasn't doing it to make you look bad - it's routine when there's been a smash. She'd have asked you even if she hadn't smelled alcohol on your breath. OK, look. I had a late night. Last night. I, er I wasn't at home. So I haven't had time to shower, get changed. So admittedly it may be on my breath, but I'm certainly not over the limit. So you thought calling her a stupid little effing something-beginning-with-C would help? She threatened to arrest me. She was doing her job. She risks her neck every day, all of my officers do, dealing with scum and tossers. What none of 'em need is abuse from someone on the council who above all people should know better. Yes, yes. I know and I'm sorry. Obviously, it had It had just happened, I was upset, I was shaken. I'd like you to blow into the tube. If you refuse again, I'll arrest you. OK. Look. I'm more than happy to apologise to her. Really, I am. Good. Well, you can do that as soon as you've done this. Catherine, come on. You know I've got the highest respect for you and your team. I'm amazed you're making a fuss like this 大惊小怪. Can you blow into the tube, please? It wasn't me who caused the accident! It was the woman at the front. She's been breathalysed. She didn't have a problem with it. And the cause remains to be established. I'm not standing here and being humiliated and compromised like this. OK. Then I'm going to have to ask you to give me the keys to your vehicle. Oh! You'll understand that I can't let you drive away from the scene if you're refusing to be breathalysed. I have to say, I never had you down as a jobsworth 斤斤计较, 吹毛求疵, 拿鸡毛当令箭, 不知道分寸( an official who upholds petty rules even at the expense of humanity or common sense. If you refer to someone as a jobsworth, you are criticizing them for using the rules connected to their job as an excuse not to be helpful. [British, disapproval] A surly jobsworth alerted security. "parks abound with jobsworths who delight in yelling that you can't do that without special permission". ). Keys are in the ignition. And I'm only refusing on principle. I want you to understand that and I want it noted down. You're refusing because you've been drinking. You and me both know that. I have to say, Catherine, I'm very disappointed in this attitude you're taking. Can you explain to me what this is? I've no idea. Well, it looks like a little packet of white powder to me. Well, it's not mine. Well, it's in your vehicle. Jesus! Y You've just put that there. You've just planted that there. I'm arresting you on suspicion of drunk driving and possessing an illegal substance. It's not mine! It's got nowt to do with me! You don't have to say anything, but it may Can you turn round? Hands on the roof of your vehicle. Don't do this. This is going to have consequences, and not for me. Catherine, it's ridiculous! It's humiliating! You're making a big mistake. Have you got any other substances on you? No, don't be ridiculous! Look, it's a plant. It was planted. All right, maybe not by you, but it was planted. You're going to regret this, you're going to regret it a lot, and soon, and for the rest of your life, you understand? You're going to lose your job over this, and worse. Much worse. OK, hands behind your back. 5. I'm not your mother. You've gotta remember that nobody is above the law 在法律之上. However important they try and tell you that they are, however much they try and bully you into thinking that you've got the wrong end of stick, nobody bullies you - you're a police officer. 6. As the amateur plan is put into place, Nevison throws a curve ball to ( throw (sb) a curve (ball) mainly US and Australian English informal to surprise someone with something that is difficult or unpleasant to deal with. to do something unexpected that makes someone confused or causes problems. To surprise; to introduce something unexpected or requiring a quick reaction or correction. He really threw me a curve when he asked me a personal question at work. Mother Nature threw us a curve ball last winter with record-breaking amounts of snow.) Kevin by agreeing to pay for the school fees, as well as offering him the position of temporary manager while he cares for his sick wife, Helen. Stunned and overwhelmed, Kevin rings Ashley to call the whole thing off, but the wheels are already in motion. Ashley no longer needs Kevin, and unlike the cowardly accountant, is prepared to go to any lengths to pull off the plot. In a panic, Kevin races to the local West Yorkshire police station, where he's greeted by Catherine. Flustered and nervous, he wants to come clean about his huge mistake before it's too late. Spooked by her line of questioning, he bolts, leaving Catherine confused and an enormous fallout about to unfold as the staged kidnapping takes a nasty turn. With Kevin's brain-child becoming a grim and dangerous reality, Catherine's world collides with the kidnappers – one of whom is Tommy Lee Royce. Knowing that Tommy is out on her patch 片区儿, 管片儿, Catherine will not rest until justice prevails, even if it means taking the law into her own hands.
