时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2010年


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The US President Barack Obama has welcomed the latest economic growth figures, but he says more action is needed to get unemployed 1 Americans back to work. The US economy grew 2.4 percent in the second quarter of this year, but that's a slower pace than the previous three months. President Obama has toured car factories in Detroit, claiming his administration's bailout of the industry has saved one million jobs.


The head of Coles says he doesn't think the Coalition's paid parental 2 leave scheme would push prices up for consumers. The government has argued the 1.7% levy 3 on large businesses would be passed on to consumers, but the Managing Director of Coles, Ian McLeod, says the levy wouldn't have a major impact 4.


A senior official in Beijing says that China has overtaken 5 Japan to become the second biggest economy in the world. China's chief currency regulator made the claim on a government website although he gave no new figures to support it.


And to the market numbers, Wall Street finished the session 6 fairly flat. The Dow Jones closed just one point lower. There were mixed results in Europe. London's FTSE finished more than one percent weaker, but the DAX made modest gains.


And checking currencies, the Australian dollar is buying around 90 US cents.



1 unemployed
adj.失业的,没有工作的;未动用的,闲置的
  • There are now over four million unemployed workers in this country.这个国家现有四百万失业人员。
  • The unemployed hunger for jobs.失业者渴望得到工作。
2 parental
adj.父母的;父的;母的
  • He encourages parental involvement in the running of school.他鼓励学生家长参与学校的管理。
  • Children always revolt against parental disciplines.孩子们总是反抗父母的管束。
3 levy
n.征收税或其他款项,征收额
  • They levy a tax on him.他们向他征税。
  • A direct food levy was imposed by the local government.地方政府征收了食品税。
4 impact
n.冲击,碰撞;影响;vt.装紧,压紧
  • The computer had made a great impact on modern life.计算机对现代生活产生了巨大的影响.
  • How will the war impact on such a poet?战争对这样一个诗人会产生什么影响?
5 overtaken
v.追上,赶上,超过( overtake的过去分词 );(不愉快的事情)突然发生;突然降临;(在数量或重要性方面)大于
  • Don't be overtaken by misgivings and fear. Just go full stream ahead! 不要瞻前顾后, 畏首畏尾。甩开膀子干吧! 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • Exports have already overtaken last year's figure. 出口量已超过了去年。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 session
n.会议,开庭期,市盘,学期;adj.短期的
  • This matter will go over until the next session.这件事将留待下次会议讨论。
  • Congress is now in session.国会现在正在开会。
学英语单词
acetosoluble albumin
albican
altrigenderism
andamia reyi
anniversaries
antimanipulation
aphodius (aparammoecius) nishikawai
apparent resistivity
bag room
cardiac infundibulum
carved-out interest
cathodal opening tetanus
cattywompus
centiohm
Chambre des Comptes
Clostridium beijerinckii
cold-air outbreak
compiler loc alamos scientific laboratories
complementary condition
crespelle
crocodile-type cutting machine
cutlefish
cylindrical cutter
data translation technology
deadline for performance
diamondoids
dierdre
directional instability
dugald stewarts
electric power system operation
emergency storage
euryphagic fish
exceptional complex simple Lie algebra
exo
focusing force
fresh steam
gaiton
GC
glycon(e)
goldminer
greenoak
gun driven
half-puncture
hands-to-mouth
Helleno-
Ihrlerstein
impester
in dies
intermediate routing node
internal tax
Kleberg County
lamb's quarters
Ligist
liqluation
lizard pt.
log exposure scale
lyoniol
Lytispasm
maols
modified latex
myristic ketone
negative supply rail
nose-picked
objective definition
overpower protection
pasticheur
people's daily
Petrefaction
phase inversion modulation
post-inflammatory pseudopolyp of colon
PPBE
process description
rami anastomoticus cum nervo hypoglosso
rhamphocoris elegantulus
rickli
rutting seasons
sacred mushrooms
scrubbiness
sea mouth
secondary x-ray
sent out
short-circuit equivalent test
silver-dye-bleach film
single-channel per carrier (scpc)
snow-blower
solar cell array wing
space parallax
spacecraft test bed
special-purpose freight car
specimen rammer
sterilizated
subtraction of terms of the same sign
synchrotron process
tax-baseds
The Guianas
Tijuana taxi
Tschirnhaus transformations
unplanned derating
uremic convulsion
weakening ratio
wobblier
Zanthoxylum avicennae