时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2009年


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US stocks have dropped on concerns that Dubai's debt crisis could stall the global economic recovery from recession. The government-owned Dubai World has around 60 billion US dollars worth of debt. It’s asked creditors 1 if it can postpone 2 repayment 3 until May, raising concerns that some banks could further tighten 4 lending. The shock news of Dubai's debt problems rattled 5 markets.


In an abbreviated 6 session, the Dow closed 1.5 percent lower. Investors 7 mainly got rid of financial and commodity stocks. Europe's leading stocks indexes closed higher on Friday, reversing sharp losses. London's FTSE closed one percent higher after suffering its biggest daily fall on Thursday.


Alarm over Dubai sent Asian shares plummeting 8 at the end of the week. Hong Kong tumbled nearly five percent, due to investors' dump stocks in two foreign banks with the highest exposure to Dubai, HSBC and Standard Chartered. The Nikkei dropped three percent. The local market is expected to open lower on Monday, it staged its biggest one-day fall in five months, to close 2.9 percent down on Friday. And the Australian dollar has lost ground against the majors.


And that’s ABC Business News.



1 creditors
n.债权人,债主( creditor的名词复数 )
  • They agreed to repay their creditors over a period of three years. 他们同意3年内向债主还清欠款。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Creditors could obtain a writ for the arrest of their debtors. 债权人可以获得逮捕债务人的令状。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 postpone
v.延期,推迟
  • I shall postpone making a decision till I learn full particulars.在未获悉详情之前我得从缓作出决定。
  • She decided to postpone the converastion for that evening.她决定当天晚上把谈话搁一搁。
3 repayment
n.偿还,偿还款;报酬
  • I am entitled to a repayment for the damaged goods.我有权利索取货物损坏赔偿金。
  • The tax authorities have been harrying her for repayment.税务局一直在催她补交税款。
4 tighten
v.(使)变紧;(使)绷紧
  • Turn the screw to the right to tighten it.向右转动螺钉把它拧紧。
  • Some countries tighten monetary policy to avoid inflation.一些国家实行紧缩银根的货币政策,以避免通货膨胀。
5 rattled
慌乱的,恼火的
  • The truck jolted and rattled over the rough ground. 卡车嘎吱嘎吱地在凹凸不平的地面上颠簸而行。
  • Every time a bus went past, the windows rattled. 每逢公共汽车经过这里,窗户都格格作响。
6 abbreviated
n.投资者,出资者( investor的名词复数 )
  • a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
  • a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
7 plummeting
v.垂直落下,骤然跌落( plummet的现在分词 )
  • Prices are rising, falling, going up, going down, shooting up, plummeting, etc. 物价在上涨、下跌、上升、下落、猛然上涨、骤然下跌等。 来自辞典例句
  • The enemy plane went plummeting into the sea. 敌机直直掉进海里。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
abd-el
aconine
acquired pes planus
adriaen
alphabet-soup
amateur station(at)
apogamogony
as black as one's hat
atrio-ventricular(nodal)rhythm
audio line
autin
baekam (paekam)
battement tendu pour la batterie
beck
bite-block
blahnik
bouncer line
Bushnell, David
calabazilla
CCKAR
circuit element
closed superstructure
complement on ten
cyan iodide
diamanti
dilutable
diplois
double -entry pump
double-quote
duplex beater
egers
fairy godfather
frequency-modulation distortion
gamma-decay energy
genus Orthopristis
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
glottal stop
heterocarpus parvispina
hillview
house-owner
I.Min.E
interplayer
inverted V formation
Kresta, Zaliv
lamprids
left marginal bank
legislative hearing
leptothorax taivanensis
line-indices
lodo
makers-up
market work
massala
misconjugations
mouth guard
muzhik
mykonos
nehir
nerve of tensor tympani
no-win situations
noncongenital
none of your beeswax
optimal cooling conditions
Palmares Paulista
Pan-American jig
partial pump
passive gamma-ray assay
patrol bomber airplane
PICU (priority interrupt control unit)
pilot work
poha
premack
press home one's advantage
pseudoconcha
raise work
relieving rudder
road-safety
roadtanks
rocking bar wheel
Rubiales
semidiurnal variation
serial-port
share-croppers
shed leaves
single-stage decision making
sinuitis
slow neutron time of flight method
slungshot
small to medium enterprise
steel heat shield
steel sheathing
tellurous chloride
Tiw
tsinling axis
turning track
Upper West Side
ventilated cabin
veratriloside
vita-
wallis
work section
wraggs