英语报刊选读unit7Australian,Brazilian,EuropeanAffairs知识讲稿.ppt

英语报刊选读;Unit 7 Australian,Brazilian,EuropeanAffairs;Aborigines dont see it that way.“It was an insidious,arrogant policy that amounted to cultural genocide,”Moriarty wrote in an autobiography,“Saltwater Fella,”published this year by Viking Penguin.“It was the stuff Hitler was made of,the things he espoused that are seen as abhorrent today.”2 A national inquiry found in 1997 that many stolen-generation children were abused and suffered long-term psychological effects stemming from loss of family and cultural connections.It concluded that almost all of the 386 000 Aborigines alive today had been affected in some negative way by the separations. The government has refused to make an official apology for past wrongs against Aborigines,including the forced removal of children from their families.Prime Minister John Howard,for one,argues that it is unfair to expect the current generation of Australians to apologize for abuses they had nothing to do with,and that it is more important to look forward than backward.3;1.aboriginal adj. relating to the original people,animals,etc.of a place and to a period of time before Europeans arrived, esp . in Australia 土著的 2.kidnap v. to take somebody away illegally in order to get money or something else for returning them 绑架 3.so-called adj. used to show that you do not think that the word or phrase that is being used to describe somebody/something is appropriate 所谓的 4.premise n. a statement or an idea that forms the basis for a reasonable line of argument 前提 5.insidious adj. spreading gradually or without being noticed,but causing serious harm 狡诈的,阴险的;Expressions;Nombwyselo Mhlawuli asserts that the hand belonged to Sicelo Mhlawuli,her husband.A 1994 inquest found a strong possibility that unnamed members of apartheid-era security forces hacked and shot Mhlawuli to death in 1985.They put an exclamation point on the horror by setting his face on fire.Three other men with him that night met the same fate. Sicelo Mhlawuli was