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
absolute kernel
active crossover
agricultural advertising
Agrostis sozanensis
arutyunyan
base allowable stress intensity
basic neutral point
be cautious to
be under the apprehension that
Beltway bandits
Bensulfamide
bigleg
burst-pressure
carnal intercourse
chatigny
cheilogramma
cold urticaria
Colombian tick fever
common land
coronary angle
cross-default clause
cyacetacide
Czapek's agar
Darkschewitsch's ganglia
decision space
direct telephone exchange
directly produce
disinflationary
electrorheological
fissura telodiencephalica
fitz-gibbon
free grinding
fricken
full-shut position
Gnaeus Julius Agricola
governor lay shaft
Guizhi Tang
harmonic compressor
heneicosoic acid
heroic cavity preparation
hue and cry
impostour
indirect national tax
infectious psychosis
inkjet printers
Instraglobin
intuning
isdn primary rate access
jaw tongue groove
joun the colours
journeys
kumu
ladder tournament
lance corporals
lighter aboard ship(lash)
made toward
mccalman
Mehtar Lām
migrated teeth
Moju
monadistic
motor driven psychrometer
multiple chiasmata
of the same batch
oil-cooled
other shoe syndrome
peters
punch card system
Red Deer L.
renniet
repelled downstream hydraulic jump
running plain front dive
sabermetrically
save drip pan
scorelessly
sectional automation
serrating
share equally
silkwears
sillyfics
SM-1
speech frequency range
squillgees
starbucks coffee
steel nail
stereoscanning
stress gradient
succinic acid 2
Sulphadimethylpyrimidine
tai mien
Tonasket
transprotonase
tridacnas
tuning element
ultracorterenol
undecapeptide
underlying interest rate
vitreous condensation
wet-bulb pseudo potential temperature
wgn
xiaoji drink
zoning systems