澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2013-06-16
时间：2019-02-14 作者：英语课 分类：澳洲ABC新闻快递2013年
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And when the markets in Europe closed a couple of hours ago, London’s FTSE 100 was up. The Dax and the Euro were also up. In the US, trading comes to a close shortly and the Dow Jones is down, while the S&P 500 is also down.
And the Australian dollar is worth nearly 96 US this morning. It’ll also buy you 61 British pence and 119 New Zealand.
Economy and Labor 1 Ministers from France, Germany, Italy and Spain are meeting to discuss new unemployment measures. The meeting comes as a new report shows the number of people employed in the Euro area flopped 2 to its lowest level in more than seven years. Unemployment in some of the EU southern members is running as high as 27 per cent.
US stocks are open flat as investors 3 continue to question how soon central banks would reign 4 in their stimulus 5 programs. Duties over longevity 6 of monetary 7 policy around the world has unsettled markets recently. Nerve was stretched further this week when the Bank of Japan decided 8 to hold policies steady.
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。
v.（指书、戏剧等）彻底失败( flop的过去式和过去分词 )；（因疲惫而）猛然坐下；（笨拙地、不由自主地或松弛地）移动或落下；砸锅
- Exhausted, he flopped down into a chair. 他筋疲力尽，一屁股坐到椅子上。
- It was a surprise to us when his play flopped. 他那出戏一败涂地，出乎我们的预料。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )
- a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
- a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
n.统治时期，统治，支配，盛行；v.占优势
- The reign of Queen Elizabeth lapped over into the seventeenth century.伊丽莎白王朝延至17世纪。
- The reign of Zhu Yuanzhang lasted about 31 years.朱元璋统治了大约三十一年。
n.刺激，刺激物，促进因素，引起兴奋的事物
- Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
- Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。
n.长命；长寿
- Good habits promote longevity.良好的习惯能增长寿命。
- Human longevity runs in families.人类的长寿具有家族遗传性。
adj.货币的，钱的；通货的；金融的；财政的
- The monetary system of some countries used to be based on gold.过去有些国家的货币制度是金本位制的。
- Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。