时间:2019-01-19 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2014年


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 The decision by Scotland to stay in the UK reduces the risk of financial instability in Europe, so as the British pound has hit a two-year high against the Euro. And it's up against the Australian dollar and the greenback. 


 
It's been a positive session on the Australian share market even as mining stocks fell:
 
By the close, the All Ords was up 18 points or half a percent, the ASX 200 Index matching that gain. 
 
Turning across the region:
 
And Japan's Nikkei has surged over one and a half percent, and it's a very strong session in Hong Kong as well. The Australian dollar is holding below 90 US cents today against the strengthening greenback.
 
The Chinese Internet giant Alibaba is preparing to list on the New York Stock Exchange tonight. It's set the price of each share at 68 US dollars, valuing the Internet company at almost 168 billion US dollars. Redhot demand for its shares is set to raise around 22 billion US dollars. Last year, the company sold more goods than Amazon and eBay combined. 
 
Microsoft has axed more than 2,000 jobs as part of a campaign to drastically reduce its global workforce 1. The company is shedding a total of 18,000 staff around the world as it moves away from software to focus on mobile and online technology. Microsoft is also shutting down its research and development center in California's Silicon 2 Valley.
 

n.劳动大军,劳动力
  • A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture.劳动人口中一大部分受雇于农业。
  • A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。
n.硅(旧名矽)
  • This company pioneered the use of silicon chip.这家公司开创了使用硅片的方法。
  • A chip is a piece of silicon about the size of a postage stamp.芯片就是一枚邮票大小的硅片。
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air - sea rescue
Anaspides
aquatic food microbiology
armacost
astropecten polyacanthus
atlantooccipital joint
autocropping
Baja California Norte
Balqash
bankfield
Belgian shepherd dog
bielecki
blind-flange
buttercup family
carpeted
CAWU
centi-meter
Chǒâm Khsant
citrus aurantiums
clove bark
coal rashings
collateral immunization
contar
corycaeids
creakest
crown bevel gear
dargan
diffuse enlarger
digital video broadcast
eddy noise
eriophyllus
estimated
euphony
exclusive rights of exploitation
extraction of lithium from seawater
fine-textured meat
fishgig
focusing diffratometer
full - time job
got me off
hampdens
hepta-valent neptunium ion
hologeny
hydraulic power production plant
hyperpolitical
illuminable
incentive marketing
insulating cover
isospin selection rules
jawne
karst ridge
ladle tilting facility
Lambert-Bouguer's law
Lespedeza cyrtobotrya
lickin
Limbones Cove
live tiles
lowballed
lowies
main-steam maximum pressure control loop
mammillotegmental tract
marvers
meet face to face
melanotallo (melanothallite)
mountain of piety
Nodosoclavator
non-manufacturing costs
one parent family
orsat flue-gas analyzer
outside ventures
parallelogram type
phototransduction
pickerel-weed
priority designator
productisations
real cost terms of trade
recent epoches
relativistic kinematics
release computer
right to health
sebels
shared peripheral interface
shirtpocket
shmoose
slag free metal
sludge sample
special system of point-group
Sulpiril
t-odd phage
thinking distances
thinly-sliceds
three-card trick
Tiberian
tinte
tractus medull? spinalis
tubular bells
vivianite
volucella vespimima
West Indies
wife-swappings
World Tamil Movement
zeilanite (ceylonite)