时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2011年


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 The survey by the National Australia Bank has found trading additions for small and medium-sized companies fell sharply in the September quarter. Confidence was down for those companies involved in transport, business services and healthcare. However, optimism was a little stronger in retail 1 and construction.


 
A quarry 2 group has blamed uncertainty 3 in global financial markets for a drop in first-half profit. Australia's biggest investment bank posted a 24 per cent fall in profit to $305 million. That's below analysts 4' expectations. The company has also announced a share buyback plan worth almost $900 million.
 
And new doubts suggest the US economy could be morally picking up steam. Economic growth in the country nearly doubled to 2.5 per cent between July and September. The improvement was roughly in line with expectations and was fuelled by stronger consumer and business spending as well as international trade.
 
Let's check out the figures now, and the US market closed mixed with the Dow up slightly. There have been falls in Europe but also somewhat mixed in Europe there. And back home, both the All Ords and the ASX 200 up slightly.
 
Checking commodities, and gold was down just slightly as you can see. And on the currency market, the Australian dollar is buying 107 US cents.

1 retail
v./n.零售;adv.以零售价格
  • In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
  • These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。
2 quarry
n.采石场;v.采石;费力地找
  • Michelangelo obtained his marble from a quarry.米开朗基罗从采石场获得他的大理石。
  • This mountain was the site for a quarry.这座山曾经有一个采石场。
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 analysts
分析家,化验员( analyst的名词复数 )
  • City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
  • I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
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accreditate
Air-tumor
algebraic representation
all eyes to
apecs
axle guard stay
backwoodish
bactrocera (bactrocera) paratappana
blackout skit
burden of adducing evidence
calorimetry
cantilever-deck bridge
caramel buns
Castlehill
Center alignment
countershaft gear cluster bearing
day reconstruction method
dog iron
dolichorhynchus
double pass spectrometer
ductilimeters
end point of distillation
equilibratory organs
extra super duralumin
fast gree
ficus aruiculata
fondue set
frogurt
from the wrong side of the tracks
frost-free
frost-point technique
frustrated contract
gi
Glebovo
graded coil
helpmeet
hokoes
holographic memory
individual unit
induction programme
instructorial
jack rack
job cost voucher
kinocilial
laffont
larger than
lav
lessees
lights in line
magnetic domain memory
Matavanu Crater.
matglass
misbegetten
Moss Landing
musculus larsalis superior
Neelin
neigh-borhood center
neutron-activated
nonconfigurable
nonrunic
North Ryde
novogrod
Ochlockonee R.
other side of the coin
paleoprimatology
paradigm shift
pastel
personal servitude
pfisterer
phosphoantigens
poop decks
power station nuclear
Prenanthes serpentaria
push-down memory
race condition
range retrieval
rectangular rosette
rightmost derivation
row crop attachment
Setaria yunnanensis
settlement variation
shirt button
spur reactions
steady creep rate
styphnic acid
subjects
tellam
tetraclita kuroshioensis
three-row keyboard
tillowing
turnquest
under picking system
untreated aggregate
utriculi breviores
vertical fine boring machine
visceral pleurisy
vittaria anguste-elongata
Windows API
Windsor chair
witness in wedding
world war two
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