时间:2019-02-21 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2014年


英语课

 There were very sharp falls on Wall Street overnight with investors 1 once again concern that companies like Amazon, Facebook and Netflix are all far too expensive and all three fell between four and five percent each. The tech-heavy Nasdaq dropped three percent. It's the biggest fall in two years. The S&P 500 recorded its biggest slid in two months. That's affected 2 local trade. The ASX 200 is down around one percent. A constant stream of company announcements this morning has kept analysts 3 busy. Hochtief has been give been the all clear from FIRB for acquisition of Leighton's. Bank of Queensland reported its 34 percent rise in first half profit and that it's buying Investecs finance business for 440 million dollars. And Coke Australia shares are being savaged 4 after the company warned a 15 percent drop in earnings 5. The Australian dollar's seen sharp drops in yesterday's high of 94.6. It's now closed at 93.5 US cents. 


 
Major news for Western Australia miners this morning: Junior mining company Padbury has secured funds to build a multi-billion dollar port and rail project Oakajee in West Australia's mid-west. The port is much needed to export stranded 6 iron ore deposits from the state's mid-west region. The port will provide much needed alternative to the port of Geraldton. Shares in Padburg Mining have soared 85 percent on the deal.

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
adj.不自然的,假装的
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
分析家,化验员( analyst的名词复数 )
  • City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
  • I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
(动物)凶狠地攻击(或伤害)( savage的过去式和过去分词 ); 残害; 猛烈批评; 激烈抨击
  • The horse threw its rider to the ground and savaged him. 那马将骑马者摔在地上,乱踢他。
  • The drink had savaged him. 酒使他变得野蛮。
n.工资收人;利润,利益,所得
  • That old man lives on the earnings of his daughter.那个老人靠他女儿的收入维持生活。
  • Last year there was a 20% decrease in his earnings.去年他的收入减少了20%。
a.搁浅的,进退两难的
  • He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里, 身无分文,一筹莫展。
  • I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市,既没有钱,又没有朋友。
学英语单词
ability for
added edition
annelated
antinihilist
Arnoseris minima
autoglossonyms
Bakhadda, Barrage de
banamba
batter's syndrome
be transported with delight
bioindication
bledner
border leicester wool
calligraphization, calligraphisation
camelion
celentanoes
center of dispersion
co-aunt
colossum
compensation for labor object
condensed phosphoric acid
cultivate seedlings
Cutivate
cyanurin
drain time
drdo
engineering time
Erysimum officinale
Euonymus hystrix
Fagopyrol
fictitious state
for life
from long ago
frost-freer
Gardone Val Trompia
gas at rest
generalized extreme value distribution
hand-block
harkings
honey press
I Chronicles
imphees
infantile features
insulating stick
international federation of air traffic controllers association
interreader
intravenous cannula infusion
irradiation damage
jelliums
joint overseas ventures
laisse
lateral refraction
lead of brushes
manufacturing efficiency
meanvalue
measuring aerial
moving iron voltmeter
night-time seeing
nonnumeric operand
nordgren
Norwegian Deep
nouse
olims
opalise
operating costs
options market maker
P. E. G.
passed off
pay card
perioral
pew-opener
plaqueless
point of incipient fluidization
Polytoca digitata
primary sample
primo uomo
quartz furnace atomizer
reliability report
remoto-cut-off tube
rhizonychium
Shōkawa
SID
slitting serration
slope air course
software flexibility
sternoscapular
subcritical nuclear process
subnuvolar
surdimute
tandem bicycle
tetraazidomethane
Tombetsu-gawa
turned sorts
turved
Tutcheria ovalifolia
ultrasonic metal inspection
underwater illumination intensity
valiquette
variance for stratified sampling
vertical double action press
weary-looking
zero morphism