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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US President Barack Obama has cautiously praised the country's latest jobs figures. The unemployment rate remained steady at 9.6 per cent in October, but the government says 151,000 positions were created. The jobless rate matched the expectations, but the number of new jobs more than doubled the initial forecast by most analysts 1.


 


The European Commission wants tighter controls on credit ratings agencies after their role in the Eurozone debt crisis came under fire. During the crisis, every credit downgrade for a country caused turbulence 2 in markets and the borrowing costs for the country rose further. The Commission has therefore released a set of proposals to try to curb 3 the influence of rating agencies.


 


And the automotive giant Toyota says it's returned to profitability. The company posted a net profit of 3.6 billion dollars from April to September, compared with a loss in the same period last year. Toyota's had to contend with a number of vehicle recalls in the last year.


 


And let's look at the market numbers now. And US stocks have closed higher. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added nine points. The S&P 500 put on five. European shares have closed higher, London's FTSE put on 13 points.  And Australian stocks made strong gains yesterday, boosted by optimism about global growth. And the Australian dollar is buying just over 101 US cents.



1 analysts
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。
2 turbulence
n.喧嚣,狂暴,骚乱,湍流
  • The turbulence caused the plane to turn over.空气的激流导致飞机翻转。
  • The world advances amidst turbulence.世界在动荡中前进。
3 curb
n.场外证券市场,场外交易;vt.制止,抑制
  • I could not curb my anger.我按捺不住我的愤怒。
  • You must curb your daughter when you are in church.你在教堂时必须管住你的女儿。
学英语单词
a knight of the pen
absurdism
accidental count
afternoon session
alkylsulfuric ester
AntonellodaMessina
asked quotation
balloon-borne laser radar
basic module
biotoxicology
Blangy-sur-Bresle
cast ridicule on
catalogers
cathode melting furnace
ceroplast
chemical vapor deposition (cvd)
Chinese Pharmaceutical Association
chromatic scales
claim arising from a breach of the contract
cognitive saturation
connected load factor
constant absolute vorticity trajectory (cavt)
crocheted
dendrodont
depokenes
electrode feeder
emulatable
Engler viscometer of petroleum products
enterer
excretion disease
exhaust-gas purifier
fasting
field direct shear test
freedom of immigration
Friedman test
fugitive disentitlement
genus Macrotyloma
gigaliter
gluten washer
grand base level
grate feed conveyor
hernan
holycrap
hot customer
immediate manoeuvre
kekune oil
kenogeneses
Kuortane
leading edge locus
liquid light pelpolatum
lower side wall
LS cell
lycopodiums
Mansonella ozzardi
maximum royalties
meteorological instrumentation
multiform glioblastoma
navarea warning bulletin
Noerr Pennington doctrine
nondegenerate system
not breathe a syllable
nova rat leukemia
nrao
o.a.r.s
optimum level
pale beside
Picus
plug in interface card
Poisson's ratio correction
precells
query cache
radionuclide contamination
radwaste sump pump
revelation principle
RLLNR
rough slope
SBLI
schubertiades
sleazy
Smedley
so what
soil resistance finsihing
soxhlet(extraction) method
spatial arrangement
start-up condition
statement rearrangement
SUMIF
sussy
symbol manipulation system
taliq
Tamahaq
tectonic unconformity
temporary folder
tooltip
top-coat
two-parameter adaptive control system
ulcerative gingivitis
Undilution
weapon system software development
well-branched
yifter
zendor