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 US President Barack Obama has welcomed the latest economic growth figures, but he says more action is needed to get unemployed 1 Americans back to work. The US economy grew 2.4 percent in the second quarter of this year, but that's a slower pace than the previous three months. President Obama has toured car factories in Detroit, claiming his administration's bailout of the industry has saved one million jobs.


The head of Coles says he doesn't think the Coalition's paid parental 2 leave scheme would push prices up for consumers. The government has argued the 1.7% levy 3 on large businesses would be passed on to consumers, but the Managing Director of Coles, Ian McLeod, says the levy wouldn't have a major impact 4.


A senior official in Beijing says that China has overtaken 5 Japan to become the second biggest economy in the world. China's chief currency regulator made the claim on a government website although he gave no new figures to support it.


And to the market numbers, Wall Street finished the session 6 fairly flat. The Dow Jones closed just one point lower. There were mixed results in Europe. London's FTSE finished more than one percent weaker, but the DAX made modest gains.


And checking currencies, the Australian dollar is buying around 90 US cents.



1 unemployed
adj.失业的,没有工作的;未动用的,闲置的
  • There are now over four million unemployed workers in this country.这个国家现有四百万失业人员。
  • The unemployed hunger for jobs.失业者渴望得到工作。
2 parental
adj.父母的;父的;母的
  • He encourages parental involvement in the running of school.他鼓励学生家长参与学校的管理。
  • Children always revolt against parental disciplines.孩子们总是反抗父母的管束。
3 levy
n.征收税或其他款项,征收额
  • They levy a tax on him.他们向他征税。
  • A direct food levy was imposed by the local government.地方政府征收了食品税。
4 impact
n.冲击,碰撞;影响;vt.装紧,压紧
  • The computer had made a great impact on modern life.计算机对现代生活产生了巨大的影响.
  • How will the war impact on such a poet?战争对这样一个诗人会产生什么影响?
5 overtaken
v.追上,赶上,超过( overtake的过去分词 );(不愉快的事情)突然发生;突然降临;(在数量或重要性方面)大于
  • Don't be overtaken by misgivings and fear. Just go full stream ahead! 不要瞻前顾后, 畏首畏尾。甩开膀子干吧! 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • Exports have already overtaken last year's figure. 出口量已超过了去年。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 session
n.会议,开庭期,市盘,学期;adj.短期的
  • This matter will go over until the next session.这件事将留待下次会议讨论。
  • Congress is now in session.国会现在正在开会。
学英语单词
4-(1-naphthylvinyl)pyridine
access protection
allegorism
amphicarpogenous
Angulon lens
anonaceine
AOG
approximation of root
aspergilliform
automatic nozzle
berenger
Billy Goat Curse
bupatis
calanistrum
call money market
central statistical division
charcoal poultice
charley horse
classified grinding
coherent sum frequency generation
coisogenic stocks
color map table
come stand at attention
company time
competitive auctions
convertible foreign currency
country of departure
cretaceous oils
digital DNA
disciplinary law
dispersion equation of whistlers
draymen
durand-zunin(syndrome)
electrofiltration
equilibrium enrichment factor
eruct, eructated
execution concurrence
gear-type coupling
glass ware
greenhouse ventilation
half rest
HERED
Heterodontoidea
high voltage rectifier
inbound tourism
industrial accounting
infant marketing
Inlam
isogamous conjugation
Kyllburg
lasing protective eyeglass
le fanu
leakage test method
legal power
Legionellaceae
limits inferior
maeviuss
maintained time relay
marine monitoring
metaprescutum
micronucleation
multivalently
music directors
necessitaitis
nigriventris
nonguilt
ochrosporous
operative field
ore reserve outside balance sheet
Orinus
paphos
parallactically
pepsinogens
phenylmethyl acetate
poliaspoides formosana
post litem motam
powpy
pseudo-procedure
pulsating canal
randum
Rayleigh scattering function
reconsent
reinforcings
RTTR
Scutellaria yangbiense
semi-gantry crane
shuttle race cap
skin tube
spankable
spicular
stream gauging station
stretched the truth
sulphomycxin
superstitious
table pack
taneja
transaction monitor
trucking expenses
under judical process
under one's belt
wule
Xinjiangese