时间:2019-02-14 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2014年


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 And when the markets closed a couple of hours ago in Europe, London's FTSE 100 was closed to 50 points higher. The Dax and the Euro also ended the week on a positive note America's markets have closed with the Dow Jones slightly lower and trading flat on the S&P 500.


 
The coal seam gas(煤层气) exploration company Santos has been fined just over 50,000 dollars in the Land and Environment court. The company pleaded guilty to failing to report a spill of cotaminated water in the Pilliga State Forest northwest of Narrabri. Ten thousand litres of waste water escaped from a treatment plant in June, 2011, damaging surrounding vegetation. The Wilderness 1 Society says the fine,though, is not big enough.
 
“This paltry 2 fine that Santos has received sends a really poor message to the coal seam gas industry. It tells them they can get away with serious pollution issues for next to nothing.”
 
The communications watchdog has fined Teltra more than half a million dollars for delays in connecting new landline customers. The 510,000-dollar fine is the biggest penalty delivered by the Australian Communications and Media Authority. ACMA says Telstra connected 88.6 percent of its new landline connections in urban areas in a timely fashion last financial year. That's less than the benchmark of 90 percent.

n.杳无人烟的一片陆地、水等,荒漠
  • She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
  • Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。
adj.无价值的,微不足道的
  • The parents had little interest in paltry domestic concerns.那些家长对家里鸡毛蒜皮的小事没什么兴趣。
  • I'm getting angry;and if you don't command that paltry spirit of yours.我要生气了,如果你不能振作你那点元气。
学英语单词
a hint of
administrative software
Aghagallon
agronomic traits
alignment of document
alternating current booster
ambitionate
answer the doorbell
anti-aircraft rocket
antimonane
aphyllanthess
blown off some steam
bum rap
buy commission
carbonizing duster
caseinum
center out
chloramine solution
cholest-7-enol
cinnipirine
city growth
clean-coal
compare logical
corradial
culture bottle
curved link
Danaan
delayed runoff
digital differentiation
doctrinist
dog's-ear
drug metabolic rate
Eastern Armenian
Ebersbach
electron beam treatment
elementary mineralogy
embroil with
fail safe alarm
farthest range
fertilizer brand
file bench
foretelling
full member
go zonkers
guiness
halfway lines
hoffmanns
holosystemic
IANHL
immovables
in real life
inferior border of mandible
insulating clothing
Katerynopil'
lay the bridle on the neck of
lougheeds
lymphorotease
malapropos
manifold pressure gauge
meliorant
Mesudrin
Minnesota, State of
narcobarbital
nobile
non-disney
non-loadbearing
none of your bee's wax
octadeca-
paradrino laevicula
polypleurodiaphragmotomy
rack structure
recaldes
regenerated crust
releeve
retributive
rhegmatogenous detachment of retina
Rudlin
sample and hold device
second-chance
septa interaalveolaria (mandibul?)
shell clearance
shelterbelts
ship's classification
shipping law
si-chip switch
signal-conditioning unit
silicon brick
single-silk enamel
sonsier
spheroidal earth
stentorins
sundry space
temperature excess
temporal veins
thermodynamics of constrained material
thousands upon thousands
Tokyo Bay
unconfined shot
virgin voyage
vmi
waste disposal park
willette