时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2010年


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 Moody's Investors 1 Service has slashed 2 Ireland's credit rating by five notches 3. Moody's says the downgrade reflects the problems in the country's banking 4 system and increased uncertainty 5 regarding the country's economic outlook. Ireland recently had to seek a $115 billion rescue package from the EU and the IMF to help tackle its debt crisis.


 
Santos has signed an agreement with a South Korean company to buy 3.5 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas from Queensland each year. KOGAS will take a 15 per cent stake in the Gladstone LNG project and French company Total has also increased its stake by 7.5 per cent. The project will source gas from the Surat and Bowen basins and pipe it to central Queensland for processing.
 
And to the market numbers now, Australian shares ended the week lower. The All Ords lost 16 points. The ASX 200 was down about 21 points. Elsewhere in the region, Japan's Nikkei was down, the Hang Seng was up. In the US, stocks are flat. The Dow Jones is slightly lower. And on the commodities market, gold is trading higher. And a quick check of the currencies, the Australian dollar is buying around 99 US cents and almost 64 pence.

1 investors
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
2 slashed
v.挥砍( slash的过去式和过去分词 );鞭打;割破;削减
  • Someone had slashed the tyres on my car. 有人把我的汽车轮胎割破了。
  • He slashed the bark off the tree with his knife. 他用刀把树皮从树上砍下。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 notches
n.(边缘或表面上的)V型痕迹( notch的名词复数 );刻痕;水平;等级
  • The Indians cut notches on a stick to keep count of numbers. 印第安人在棒上刻V形凹痕用来计数。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • They cut notches in the handle of their pistol for each man they shot. 他们每杀一个人就在枪托上刻下一个V形记号。 来自辞典例句
4 banking
n.银行业,银行学,金融业
  • John is launching his son on a career in banking.约翰打算让儿子在银行界谋一个新职位。
  • He possesses an extensive knowledge of banking.他具有广博的银行业务知识。
5 uncertainty
n.易变,靠不住,不确知,不确定的事物
  • Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
  • After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后,压力开始产生影响了。
学英语单词
a sitch
affection of both the exterior and interior
allowable bucklling stress
antenna winch
antispadix
atomic fluorescence spectrophotometer
autocommit
aythya nyroca
bank debits
bebel
black-foam
boat gear
broghammer
buzzsaw.com
Cantabrize
Carsor target bearing
centrocytes
characteristic cross-section
chemical short-range-order
chromsol
clogged-up
column extraction chromatograph
command message
coreness
cost estimation technique
counteracter
deck office
double screw type vise
ecstrophy
eggiman
Faisalabad Division
fools'day
grainspace
graze
half-sine
hayward
hierarchical organization
high-temperature water boiler
hollow mandrel
holmium chloride
Horatio Hornblower
humatin
inertia frequency
inhonestate
intercellular cavity
Khelkom Diaga
laticss
lithoglyptics
little missouri rivers
lugubriously
Maastricht
martinucci
melancholic insanity
menisporopsis theobromae
meyer
mineral fuels
moving magnetic feature
myricyl melissate
NAVBLRSCHLAB
Network Information Center
now you're talking!
october-november
orbital lifetime of a satellite
PDIM
PESPL
phonon absorption
pia mater membranes
platymorphic
polyneices
prisoptometer
production operational capacity
psychologic operations
quasi-ring
rolling introduction
schwartzkopf
sdsasys-s
SECOM
self-organizing list
self-triggering cloud chamber
self-windings
shear bay
shockproofs
Shorāwak
Sierra Blanca
Spiradiclis tomentosa
splenial
Stephania sinica
stereofluorescent
sun-dials
swaggahs
syrrhopodon prolifer schwaegr.
tame curve
to address the meeting
tragicus
two-wheel plough
vacuolar degeneration of basal cell
verification technique
Weichardt's antikenotoxin
White English
work point register
writing-paper
younker