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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The local share market reversed early gains to close flat today after being dragged lower by financial stocks. The All Ordinaries Index closed down just two points and the ASX 200 lost four. The big four banks all finished lower. Westpac lost almost 2 per cent, but Telstra put on almost 1 per cent. Elsewhere in the region, Japan's Nikkei closed about a third of a percent higher.


Checking commodities and gold is lower 1,309 US dollars an ounce, but oil is on the rise. And the Australian dollar is buying just over 96.5 US cents, and many investors 1 actually expect it to rise past parity 2 with the greenback.


And the recent surge in the Australian dollar has led to a fall in manufacturing for the first time this year. The Australian Industry Group's Performance of Manufacturing Index fell almost 4.5 points in September to 47.3. And that's the first time it's fallen below the critical 50-point level in 2010, and it indicates a contraction 3 in activity. 


Meanwhile, borrowers are being warned to brace 4 for the banks to lift their interest rates by more than any official increase. The Reserve Bank is broadly expected to lift rates by a quarter of a percentage point when it meets on Tuesday. But the banks may put up their rates by more than that. They've complained that the higher cost of funding their loan is squeezing their profit margins 5.



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 parity
n.平价,等价,比价,对等
  • The two currencies have now reached parity.这两种货币现已达到同等价值。
  • Women have yet to achieve wage or occupational parity in many fields.女性在很多领域还没能争取到薪金、职位方面的平等。
3 contraction
n.缩略词,缩写式,害病
  • The contraction of this muscle raises the lower arm.肌肉的收缩使前臂抬起。
  • The forces of expansion are balanced by forces of contraction.扩张力和收缩力相互平衡。
4 brace
n. 支柱,曲柄,大括号; v. 绷紧,顶住,(为困难或坏事)做准备
  • My daughter has to wear a brace on her teeth. 我的女儿得戴牙套以矫正牙齿。
  • You had better brace yourself for some bad news. 有些坏消息,你最好做好准备。
5 margins
边( margin的名词复数 ); 利润; 页边空白; 差数
  • They have always had to make do with relatively small profit margins. 他们不得不经常设法应付较少的利润额。
  • To create more space between the navigation items, add left and right margins to the links. 在每个项目间留更多的空隙,加左或者右的margins来定义链接。
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Achillea wilsoniana
advertisable
aluminum penicillin
angiostrophy
assignment arithmetic IF statement
Aït Imguer, Tizi n'
basic suitability
bertel
black harness oil
bond indenttures
Caedwalla
capital assets account
combined counterpoint
composite can
constructionsurvey for shaft sinking by freezingmethod
continuous drilling machine
cosmic neutrino source
crystal crepe
data communication processing environment
dead crumb
demisection
diffuse prior density
dlabel
drop-oiler
egg substitute
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engler's grade
fetoplacental
fiz
fuel depot
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genus cibotiums
globe-trotter
grassland agriculture
gustometry
Gyrus temporalis medius
heading work
hebrew-language
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her majesty's inspectorate
hierarchise
indefinite repeat block
intermediate rolling mill
Jumilla
Kushum
Majītha
marc jacobs
marginal proof cycle
market overt
masitinib
membrane-based
merismite
minah
niggeration
non-normally
non-recurrent revenue
optimeter
orygine
oxyhemograph
P.R.R.
PALAEONISCOIDEA
parahybos melas
Phalzian
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positivisms
prime the pump
Propeller Shaft and Tube Shaft Survey
puccinia arthraxonis-ciliaris
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shais
skin trephine
solitary lymphatic nodules
sraps
static magnetic field
STN-LCD
table of relative luminosity coefficients
taking upon oneself
taurocholaneresis
terminal control system( TCS)
thallium hydroxysulfate
Thu Thua
tis (temperature indicating switch)
to bang your head against a brick wall
trotyl
United Arab Emirates
unwinding
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Urban Cowboys
variegated cutworm
Vieux-Bourg
wakas
weesel
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