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MalcolmTurnbull: A man of the people or the party?
老翟点评：
文章结构很清晰，值得我们在雅思作文中参考。一些词汇值得我们借鉴，比如decry, catastrophic，tackle, act on, dampen等等。几个复杂句的分析希望能够帮助阅读理解。
对于糖包总理，任何一个政治家都是被各种利益所平衡和制约的，总理下一步怎么做，让我们拭目以待吧。
Since his sudden ascension to power on Monday night, Malcolm Turnbull has offered the public only a sketchy outline of his vision for Australia.
老翟点评：
ascension：the action of rising to important position or high level. 还有一个专门的意思专指耶稣升天。
sketchy: not thorough or detailed. 专指草草的，大概的，缺乏细节的
His emphasis has been on developing an economic platform based on "freedom, the individual and the market".
Butthere are three other areas many voters are hoping he will act on - gay marriage, climate change and making Australia a republic.
All three are areas Mr Turnbull has spoken passionately about many times, puttinghim at odds with official Liberal Party policy.
老翟点评：
act on: 有所作为。很好的写作单词。
这一段就是本文的中心句，点出了文章需要重点论述的三个部分，gay marriage, climate change和Australia being republic.
Republicans,advocates of same-sex marriage, and those calling for tougher action to tackle climate change are all hopeful of an early shift in policy.
老翟点评：
此处注意对于三个部分支持者的称呼方法，
Republican-> Making Australia a republic （名词）
Advocates of same-sex marriage-> gay marriage （介词短语）
Those calling for tougher action to tackle climatechange-> climate change.（代词+现在分词做定语）
当我们在写作的时候需要表示什么样的人的时候，可以参考上面的三种表达方式。
tackle: solve 非常好的写作单词。
But deals Mr Turnbull has likely struck with some of his more conservative MPs meancurrent government policies prohibiting same-sex marriage, supporting the UK monarchy and decrying emissions trading or a carbon tax won't change any time soon.
老翟点评：
这个复杂句的分析，可以被用于理解阅读中的句子。但是写作中不建议这样的句子。
But deals Mr Turnbull has likely struck with some ofhis more conservative MPs （定语从句修饰deals,该句话的主语就是deals）mean （谓语）current government policies prohibiting same-sex marriage（主语1）, supporting the UK monarchy（主语2） and decrying emissionstrading or a carbon tax （主语3）won’t change any time soon.（宾语从句，连续的三个名词短语做主语）
decry：public denounce. 公开谴责，其同义词很多，总结如下：
condemn, criticize, attack, fulminate against, railagainst, blame, run down.可以在写作中注意使用。
Here is what the member for Wentworth has said in the past and what he is saying now:
MrTurnbull, who supports marriage equality, has previously voiced support for a free vote in parliament for MPs on any same-sex marriage bill.
Herecently questioned the need for former prime minister Tony Abbott's proposal to hold a "people's vote" or plebiscite on the issue after the next general election
"The reason I haven't advocated a plebiscite after the next election," he said last month, "is that it would mean, it will mean, that this issue is alive issue all the way up to the next election and, indeed, at the nextelection and, if we are returned to office, it will be a very live issue in thelead-up to the plebiscite itself.”
老翟点评：
糖包总理的支持的理由是：如果他们能够赢得明年的大选，那么这结果本身就会导向公投。而根本不必举行这样一个公投。
it would mean, it will mean：如果真的需要这样，总会这样的。
However, in Parliament on Wednesday, he said the idea of holding a plebiscite, which theAustralian Electoral Commission estimates would cost A$158m (£73m, $115m), was"thoroughly democratic" and a "legitimate and reasonable approach".
"Each approach has its advantages," he said.
"One,I suppose, is faster and costs less. The other one gives every Australian a sayand it has a cost; democracy has a price.
"Giving everybody a say on an important issue is surely a very legitimate andreasonable approach.”
老翟点评：
此处糖包总理软化了他的发言，开始声称公投是完全民主的表现，是合乎法律而且合理的。
Tiltingat windmills
A former environment minister and Parliamentary secretary for water, Mr Turnbull narrowly lost the leadership of the Liberal Party to Mr Abbott in 2009 in part because of his support for an emissions trading scheme.
He has never denied the science behind climate change and has been a strong supporter of using market mechanisms to send a signal to people to use less electricityand carbon-heavy resources.
As he said in 2010, Earth "is the only planet we've got".
"We know that the consequences of unchecked global warming would becatastrophic," he told an audience of renewable energy supporters.
老翟点评：
catastrophic：灾难性的。
"We know that extreme weather events are occurring with greater and greater frequency...we know that these trends are entirely consistent with the climate change forecasts, with the climate models that the scientists are relying on.”
老翟点评：
be consistent with…与sth是一致的。
In contrast, not so many months earlier, in 2009, Mr Abbott famously told anaudience in regional Victoria that the climate change argument was"absolute crap".
Mr Abbott has always been a fierce supporter of Australia's large fossil fuelindustry, declaring last year that coal was "good for humanity" and "essential for the prosperity of the world".
Since his elevation to the prime minister's seat, Mr Turnbull has softened hisrhetoric, describing the Abbott government's decision to tackle climate change without imposing any costs on carbon-polluting industries as "very, very good", arguing that if they cut emissions, "it does the job".
Th eproblem is that analysts from business, environment and science circles broadlyagree the current policies don't cut emissions.
老翟点评：
prosperity of the world:世界的繁荣
good for humanity: 有利于人民
Bending the knee
Republicans are excited the former chairman of their movement is now prime minister but chances, holding another referendum on whether Australia should cut ties with the British Royal family, are not at the top of Mr Turnbull's do-do list.
老翟点评：
一个并列句，后面一个句子主语后面由一个现在分词作定语修饰。
The public face of the republican movement in the late 1990s, Mr Turnbull famously savaged his own Liberal leader, John Howard, as "the prime minister whobroke this nation's heart" when a referendum to ditch the monarchy failedin 1999.
Sincethen, public interest in becoming a republic has waxed and waned.
In recent years, the popularity of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their first-born, Prince George, has dampened enthusiasm for replacing the monarch with a president.
老翟点评：
dampen: make it wet, make sth not strong and lessintense.
When the couple visited Australia in 2014, pictures of a handsome baby George wriggling in his parents' arms or staring with wonder at an Australian bilby at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, led to the child being dubbed "the Republicans layer".
A public opinion poll commissioned at the time by major media group Fairfax found only 49% of Australians wanted a republic. That compared with a similar surveyfour years earlier that found 68% in favour of a republic.
The issue raised its stately head again this year, when Mr Abbott knighted Prince Philip on Australia Day.
老翟点评：
Abbott总理授勋给英国皇室Prince Phillip，而并没有颁发给澳洲本国人，这件事情激起了共和支持者的不满。他们认为授勋本身就是为了表彰对于澳洲发展有贡献的本国人。难道没有一个澳大利亚人符合这个标准，而必须授给一个外国人吗？
Its parked outrage in some circles and the then-PM was mocked on social media for being out of touch with Australians.
MrTurnbull blogged that he was often asked what he thought about the knighthood,writing diplomatically that Mr Abbott's decision was not without precedent andthat most republics had some kind of honours system.
"Australian republicans should not lose too much sleep over the Prime Minister's decision," he said.
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