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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Stock markets around the world have fallen after the US president proposed sweeping 1 new rules for Wall Street banks. Barak Obama's proposals could dramatically curtail 2 the activities of American financial institutions, limiting their size and risk taking. 


Wall Street reacted badly to the news. The Dow closed more than 2% lower. The market was also dragged down by tech shares after a subsidiary of Google reported weak revenue. Uncertainty 3 and the prospect 4 of more regulation hit bank share prices in Europe as well. Britain's FTSE suffered its biggest weekly fall in nearly three months. The trend continued in the Asia. Japan's Nikkei slipped more than 2.5% in Friday trade. And the Australian dollar is buying 90 US cents, 55.9 British pence and 80.9 Japanese yen 5 in the early Saturday trade.




The US president has weighed into the stash 6 between China and internet company Google. Barack Obama says he is looking for answers from China over an alleged 7 cyber-breach. Google threatened to withdraw from China after in a hacking 8 attempt on the email accounts of human rights activists 9 was reported




And Mcdonald's profits have jumped almost a quarter in the fourth quarter. The fast food giant’s attributing the upsides to stronger global sales.


 


And that’s ABC Business. 



1 sweeping
adj.范围广大的,一扫无遗的
  • The citizens voted for sweeping reforms.公民投票支持全面的改革。
  • Can you hear the wind sweeping through the branches?你能听到风掠过树枝的声音吗?
2 curtail
vt.截短,缩短;削减
  • The government hopes to curtail public spending.政府希望缩减公共事业开支。
  • The minister had to curtail his visit.部长不得不缩短访问日期。
3 uncertainty
n.易变,靠不住,不确知,不确定的事物
  • Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
  • After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后,压力开始产生影响了。
4 prospect
n.前景,前途;景色,视野
  • This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect.事态呈现出可喜的前景。
  • The prospect became more evident.前景变得更加明朗了。
5 yen
n. 日元;热望
  • He wanted to convert his dollars into Japanese yen.他想将美元换成日币。
  • He has a yen to be alone in a boat.他渴望独自呆在一条船上。
6 stash
v.藏或贮存于一秘密处所;n.隐藏处
  • Stash away both what you lost and gained,for life continues on.将得失深藏心底吧,为了那未来的生活。
  • That's supposed to be in our private stash.这是我的私人珍藏。
7 alleged
a.被指控的,嫌疑的
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
8 hacking
n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动
  • The patient with emphysema is hacking all day. 这个肺气肿病人整天不断地干咳。
  • We undertook the task of hacking our way through the jungle. 我们负责在丛林中开路。
9 activists
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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-oxef
Adam, Jab.al
address printer
alalias
allowable pressure drop
american-trained
Andreafsky
auto-coat
binder board
black bulbul
breakion-in
carbide-lined drawing die
center of attraction
centropages calaninus
clothback
code-sensitive system
commandeerer
coronographic
crotchetinesses
DAF
depolarization ratio
die from
dieselpunk
dinucci
divinizing
dock-worker
embryogenic callus
enriched lake
epeiros
excessive rolling
failure mode & critical effects analysis (fmcea)
fallow system,fallow farming
ferrite-alloy steel
Fortrum
geological history
greenhouse equipment
helicopter deck
heterogeneous reaction
hybrid state equations
Ichkeul, Lac
identified by
impose sth on sb
input specification
internal void
isotropic dielectric
jutting out
katsampes
kellita
Kimmelstiel-Wilson syndrome
long distance cruiser
lubrication guide
magnetostrictive storage
make slight of
megalosphere
month end funds
mopstick handrail
near-blindness
new to
nonvirtualized
olitory
optical wavelength
parliamentary under-secretary
Patuakhali
phyllolepid
piperidinedione
plane of refraction
plastic magnet
pot-shop
Pregmal
pressure vessel base material
procaterol
quartered partition
QVL
round-off difference
ruffled up
sand-drift control
scare headline
school pence
sellery
Sellmeier's equation
signans
slew-wing
snake lily
space requirement work sheet
speculative capital
synchro-mating punch
tape sapping
technosocieties
the Metropolitan Police
thermo-overcurrent trip
Thibetan
thrillions
tjuiamunite
took effect
unconditional most-favored-nation
unpredictively
unprotected
unrigid
watchless
Weizsacker, Karl Friedrich von
winch-line
Zubovo