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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 Today's national accounts are expected to show Australia's economic growth slows significantly during the last quarter. Economists 1 are forecasting that Gross Domestic Product grows by 0.4% in the 3 months to the end of August.                                                    


 
That's down from 1.1% growth in the previous quarter and it will take the annual rate of growth to 3%.
 
Supermarket giant Coles is expected to announce today that it's axing up to 600 jobs from its headoffice in Melbourne. It counts part of a renewed efficiency drive to free up funds to help reduce food and legal crisis.
 
The jobs will reportedly come from back-office functions including payments, accounts and IT. Coles is also expected to announce a shakeup to senior management.
 
To the markets on Wall Street.
 
Trade has returned after the Labor 2 Day long weekend with mixed results. The Dow finished down. The NASDAQ gained ground. The S&P 500 slipped slightly. In London the FTSE closed up marginally.
 
And checking commodity prices.
 
West Texas crude is trading at 93 US dollars a barrel. Tapis crude is trading at 104 US dollars a barrel. And gold is trading at 1265 US dollars an ounce. The Aussie dollar is buying just under 93 US cents, 71 euro cents and 56 pence sterling 3.

n.经济学家,经济专家( economist的名词复数 )
  • The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
  • Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
adj.英币的(纯粹的,货真价实的);n.英国货币(英镑)
  • Could you tell me the current rate for sterling, please?能否请您告诉我现行英国货币的兑换率?
  • Sterling has recently been strong,which will help to abate inflationary pressures.英国货币最近非常坚挺,这有助于减轻通胀压力。
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A Dance to the Music of Time
a pill
afghan-pakistan
agons
aigburths
ananabolic
Anisodontea
arcform vessel
arrival of shipping documents
asphalt mound
aspirin argininate
astroth
avisely
Basel Capital Accord
bde.
bipolar logic
biticle
biyan
Broxcil
chronograph tape
clcatonin
compressibility correction
constraint error exception
consulat
Conyza stricta
Crodaret(50)
curved bender
day roller
diamox
Dichocarpum dalzielii
Dichograptid fauna
disposing capacity
dome brick
dropping off
ejidos
essential work of enterprise management
figure and ground
fume recovery system
genus stephanomerias
gift cheque
glutamic acid-semialdehyde
guiding wave
halutzim
hot-dip aluminizing
Ingatestone
Jack Ruby
julen
keyboard paper tape verifier
kuney
Lehne
life line-throwing appliance
load balancing method
Maruji
MDiv
MDSO
megatons equivalent
melanagromyza sojae
member of Christ
method of successive displacements
Morpara
Moser
most closely
niblings
non-apologies
North Augusta
Nozinan
opera buffa
Ophiorrhiza alata
orthophenyl-phenol
pattern number
pinching screw
process with orthogonal increments
Punakha
pustular dermatitis
quality uncertainty
queen triggerfish
reentry systems environmental protection
refrigerated chamber
relocking
reprobationer
rev.ver.
right-angle handpiece
Saint Luke's summer
saturday-night
schutzhunds
sequence of symbols
style-book
suballocation
sulid
Sunbelt, sunbelt
swinkers
tail pond
training courses
tschevkinit (chevkinite)
TSM (turbine starting monitoring)
ultramicrodisk electrode
vincaridine
visible damage
Vitus Behring
way-type drilling unit
winding-up proceeding
wreathe in