时间:2019-02-14 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2015年


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 In finance news today, Twitter has reported lower than expected revenue for the first three months of the year, saying that new product sold less well than forecast. The micro-blogging firm warned that it expects the negative impact on its revenue to continue for the rest of the financial year. The firm reported revenues of 436 million dollars up 74% year on year, but still below forecast. 


 
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said the country is in the final critical stretch of talks with its international creditors 1, and that he believes the interim 2 deal will be in place by May 9th.         Greece has been seeking to renegotiate the terms of its 2040 billion euro bailout from the International Monetary 3 Fund and the European Union. Prime Minister Tsipras said the objective was to find an agreement this week or next week at the latest and admitted mistakes had been made in talks with EU partners so far. Greece has estimates certain economic reforms before the EU hands over the 7.2 billion Euros which the government needs to pay its bills.
 
To the global financial markets, and US share markets were mixed overnight. The Dow Jones rose by 72 points. The S&P 500 grows by 0.3% while the Nasdaq lost 5 points. In London, the FTSE ended the day sharply lower, falling 1% following weak consumer confidence and disappointing corp. results. Checking commodity prices, West Texas Crude is trading at 57 US dollars a barrel. Tapis Crude is trading at 66 US dollars a barrel. And gold is trading at 1212 US dollars an ounce. The Australian dollar is buying 80 US cents, 73 euro cents, and 52 pence sterling 4.

n.债权人,债主( creditor的名词复数 )
  • They agreed to repay their creditors over a period of three years. 他们同意3年内向债主还清欠款。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Creditors could obtain a writ for the arrest of their debtors. 债权人可以获得逮捕债务人的令状。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.暂时的,临时的;n.间歇,过渡期间
  • The government is taking interim measures to help those in immediate need.政府正在采取临时措施帮助那些有立即需要的人。
  • It may turn out to be an interim technology.这可能只是个过渡技术。
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。
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。
学英语单词
acanthoidine
adjacent line
air-breather
ambiguohypoglossal
avoking
bestower
buffer reagent
buy-and-holds
catanator
caveling
chlordan
cost-reimbursement
de-activation
Deinotherioidea
democratic values
desoxypyridoxine
dexamethasones
diameter of working disk
diatonic auxiliary note
discretamine
domain magnetization
double-layer fluorescent screen
dropper plate of free grain
Drusze
dynamicize
editon
elbow equivalent
electrode-travel motor
embraced
endomycopsis hordel
Engler viscosimeter
fairwells
fang-likest
fawns on
federal radio act 1927
fling oneself into the breach
fluoroolefin
free-taking
general staff
grinding media charge
hachi
hard-fightings
Hatsukaichi
HRST
ignition of precipitate
inverse mercator
iodine trap
jM-factor
karhunen loeve transform (klt)
kemerer
laughing-eyed
liege poustie
light-alloy armo(u)r
Longué-Jumelles
lophocoronids
Louis Henri
market chaotic
multistage linear amplifier
Narfeyri
Ngoso
octuplex
optical fiber ribbons
organised-crimes
pass in a program
pelviroentgenography
photoelectrocatalytic reactor
phrenemphraxis
polar moments of inertia
portcullised
practice range
prevelar
primordisl endoderm cells
reave
Rectocillin
residual concentration
Riemann upper integral
rifle shot
safo
saltations
screw-tap
sebiferic acid
second anchor
short-lived asset
sleight-of-hand
sniol
sound-barriers
speed change control
stalk extractor
structurality
Tharrawaw
thirst bucket
thoughted
three-dimensional imaging
throw dust in someone's eyes
transnationally
unwed mother
vel non
voiced sounds
votes down
well-customed
wharfies
wrecking