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If you work at one of your country’s embassies or consulates, be prepared to receive strange requests for assistance. Like the one from an Australian man in Thailand who wanted to borrow money from the embassy in Bangkok to pay a local prostitute. And he wasn’t the only one with the bizarre plea for help as Julie Peacock reports.

Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told Australians that their consular staff are not there to pay hotel bills, to lend you a laptop or to provide you with the office space in the embassy. Among the other examples offered by officials was the case of a man who approached the Australian embassy in Bangkok and asked for the loan to help pay a Thai prostitute. Foreign affairs staff say such requests are common at that embassy. The government is now considering charging Australians for any consular help they receive.

Julie Peacock.

If the current climate pattern continues, this year will be the warmest around the world since records began. That’s according to the latest estimates from the world meteorological organization announced at the UN Climate Conference in Lima. For more of this, I’ve been speaking to our environment correspondent.

The figures are for the first ten months of this year and it shows the year is tracking in one of the very hottest years on record. If we continue with a warm November and a warm December, then we will have the hottest year on record. And that will make, and I think this is more interesting because you know, years can be warmer or cooler, but the general trend is what’s important here. And that will make 14 of the 15 hottest years on record from the 21st century. And the only other one in that is 1998. So all of the hottest years since 1998. That is really what’s remarkable.

So it’s all about the trend.

It’s all about the trend. And it’s the trend that gives climate meteorologists so much confidence to say we can not explain this trend unless we take into account man-made green house gases. That’s why they are so confident to say that humans are driving up with temperatures. They can’t be sure how much we are responsible but they can be sure that we are at least partly responsible and they make their predictions based on that.

And they are linking the trend to what kind of phenomena that we’re seeing around the world?

They are linking the trend to increasing temperatures and the increasing temperatures in turn lead to weather phenomena. So this year apparently, we have had exceptionally high ocean temperatures.

词汇解析

respond

难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词

英汉解释

v.回答；响应；反应；反应灵敏；反响

n.[建]壁联；[宗]应唱圣歌

参考例句

用作动词 (v.)

I invited her to dinner but she did not respond.

我请她吃晚饭，但她未作回答。

The professor lectured with a beaming countenance, but the students didn't respond much, only agreeing with what he said.

教授讲得眉飞色舞，学生们却没有太大的反响，只是随声应和。

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remains

难度：5星基本词汇，属常用1000词

英汉解释

n.剩余物；遗迹；遗体

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

After the wheat crop has been gathered, many farmers burn the remains and plough the ash into the soil, so as to enrich it.

小麦收割完成后，农夫们把剩余物烧掉，然后用犁把灰埋入地里，使土地更肥沃。

Choi's remains true today for cremation.

崔真实的遗体今天进行火葬。

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cooperate

难度：3星常用词汇，属常用6000词

英汉解释

vi.合作；协力；配合

参考例句

用作不及物动词 (vi.)

I advise you not to cooperate with that deceitful businessman.

我建议你不要和那个不诚实的商人合作。

If they can cooperate with each other, everything should run smoothly.

如果你们能互相配合，一切都会顺利的。

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persist

难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词

英汉解释

v.坚持；执意；继续；持续

参考例句

用作动词 (v.)

They persist with the agricultural reform, despite opposition from the farmers.

他们不顾农民反对,仍继续进行农业改革。

The cold weather will persist for the rest of the week.

这种寒冷的天气将持续到本周末。

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refuge

难度：3星常用词汇，属常用6000词

英汉解释

n.避难；避难所；庇护

v.庇护；避难

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

They took refuge in a cave yesterday.

他们昨天是在一个洞里避难的。

用作动词 (v.)

Drug traffickers refuged in these border areas.

毒品贩子在这些边界地区躲避。

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alarm

难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词

英汉解释

n.警报；警报器；惊恐

vt.警告；使惊恐；向 ... 报警

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

The proceedings were interrupted by the fire alarm.

会议的进程被火灾警报打断了。

用作及物动词 (vt.)

Alarm everyone quickly because the house is full of smoke.

快警告大家,屋子理都是烟。

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entertain

难度：3星常用词汇，属常用6000词

英汉解释

v.娱乐；使有兴趣；招待；考虑；抱有；容纳

参考例句

用作动词 (v.)

We were all entertained by his humorous stories.

他的幽默故事使我们大家都很开心。

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

人类的灵魂是能够容纳一切的，它毫不偏袒地接受互相对立的感情和互相矛盾的意见。

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