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 Australian dollar has hit parity 1 with the US dollar for the first time since the Australian currency was floated. The new post-float high comes after a rally over recent months that's been fueled by growing expectations the Federal Reserve will pump more cash into the US economy. That's been weakening the US dollar and sending the Australian dollar higher.


In a speech in Boston, Chair of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke has given strength to some of those expectations. He made strong hints of possible further action by the central bank to stimulate 2 the economy.  He acknowledged it's growing less vigorously than he'd like, and he said the recovery in the labor 3 market is painfully slow, and there would appear to be a case for further action.


"Despite these challenges, the Federal Reserve remains 4 committed to pursuing policies that promote our dual 5 objectives of maximum employment and price stability." Ben Bernanke.


Into the market numbers now. In the US, the Dow Jones has fallen about 40 points. In Europe, the FT, uh, the FTSE 100 is also down. Back home, and Australian shares ended the session low yesterday. The ASX200 was also down. On the commodities market, gold is down, and the Australian dollar is currently buying almost 99 US cents and around 62 pence.



1 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。
2 stimulate
vt.刺激,使兴奋;激励,使…振奋
  • Your encouragement will stimulate me to further efforts.你的鼓励会激发我进一步努力。
  • Success will stimulate the people for fresh efforts.成功能鼓舞人们去作新的努力。
3 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
4 remains
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
5 dual
adj.双的;二重的,二元的
  • The people's Republic of China does not recognize dual nationality for any Chinese national.中华人民共和国不承认中国公民具有双重国籍。
  • He has dual role as composer and conductor.他兼作曲家及指挥的双重身分。
学英语单词
ammonium ethylsulfate
areawide
balanced microphone
behren's method
bicable ropeway
billeter
blandishers
bleepers
bowshot
Callimachus
can you beat it
chatfly
Chemical Mace
continental sedimentation
counter-argument
cycloparaffinic hydrocarbons
damnement
deadmelt
deep-pile fabric
diglycol aldehyde
do the full monty
down-the-hole hammer
drill duck bill
eaten up
elastic fibrous tissue
enata
essence of disease
express lane
flap operation
flat-lying deposit
free field stress
funneliform
geochemical closed system
government osi profile
hydroscopy agent
hyperbaric oxygen cabin
impertinency
intercontinental geosyncline
ka lae
Kingdom of England
knot tying device
lagging power-factor
Larus canus
lethargy
like a lead balloon
look out!
loose ... tongue
Lophophorata
Mahanuvara
manual-balance instrument
Maximowiczia chinensis
mean age at first marriage
metrifudil
micro-locations
micropyles
more fool you
mushroom wine sauces
narrow share
national governors association (nga)
necktie-party
newtron
nine techniques of needling
Noreste, B.
obligation of giving claim notice
operable control rod
outthrow
PD Drives
pili papillae
play footsie with
projecting lamp
punch with corrugated nose
rattlebacks
rebatement
rebecomings
recourse for non acceptance
Redhouse Point
Rennie
retrieval facility
ring resonator
sagan (sagang-ni)
SBE effect
schaar
second feature
selenoid bodies
service request signal
somatic diastematy
spiral plates
stable river bed
stage bleeding
stock clerk
symmetrical splitting
temperature monitoring
tendoplication
the ship of the desert
theory of the Eight Trigrams
thickness gauge
tonsillar nerve
transhydrogenation
trolley coach
ungovernability
visiting right
withdrawal of signal