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
3-methyl-2-cyclopentenone
anterolateral groove of spinal cord
AQCS (Analytical Quality Control Services)
art-style
be in blinkers
Benfeld
Bergading, Gunong
bexarotene
bioecologists
bridge mark
chalinid
climatic reaction
clorofenazole
contact acne
contract of mandate
contracted method
copper contact
creditor country
Delano
dimethylation
EDVAC(electron discrete variable automatic compiler)
entropy ratio map
Euclasterida
excudate
facing up to
farinaceous albumen
flake coffee
fluffing tendency
foot squared
free surface flow
furuto
fusion cast refractory
GAT-1
girllover
grayanotoxanes
hawes water
horizontal creel
Kali Yuga
Laser Dust Monitors
legists
leish
lift winch
light flash sensor
Lorain, John
maaseik
Mababe Dpr.
magnetostrictions
mckewen
McLellan
medievally
metal ink
miniature score
monochrome television
more sail than ballast
motor compensator with PID regulator
My Le
myodynias
noise identification
Obure
Olenus
Ophiopogon sylvicola
optimal coupling
output from decision-assisting models
pascal function
photo transmission
physical topology
pie crimper
Pilina
piringer-kuchinka(syndrome)
pitty-patty
pnina
quintuplet elliptic spring
regulating blood method
relegate to
rest position
rhizopus arrhizus
rhodotorula rubra
rousseaux
sarcocystiss
seagoing freighter
second viscosity coefficient
sending current
setscrews
shaft skid
shrinkage retarding treatment
side-trip
silicon photodetector
space writers
spot (satellite positionting and tracking)
streptobaeillus moniliforrais
subliminal
summer theater
transformer bridges
tuft row
undrooping
unqualified approval
viverriculas
wardrobe crate
white-chinned petrels
wildauer
zanily
Zikhron Ya'aqov