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
a piece of shit
aarp (american association of retired persons)
abstract number
acute angioneurotic edema
afforcing
ahing
aluminium chloride hydrocarbon complex
ambaches
apoferments
appearance time
aseek
Bacillus robustus
be described as
bedauxes
benchwork
Bertoldo di Giovanni
betatron radiography
Biała Piska
boomerang arch
branagans
bromosalicylaldehyde
business measurement
caparoes
cataloguizes
chatman
chloralamides
co-use
cobble beach
continuous running voltage
corr rpt
cybernetic model of decision-making
demineralizers
demodulator diode
depth crank
diploblasty
dispersion of random variable
dividers
epichlorohydrin hydration
epilimnetic
fitting workshop
flight vibration analysis
forest engineering
free-cutting
full-scope
gallium dichloride
genus Coeloglossum
gilford-hutchinson(syndrome)
goodness of fit measures
grunjak
He who scrubs every pig he sees will not long be clean himself.
hemicryptophyta radicanta
hoonish
HRL
illmatic
impf
interstellar scintillation
kuku
leakproofness
license price
marybel
meadowless
medium term schedule
meridian observation
Microzamia
moving string
Mulalo
natural fluoresence
Ndianda
non-penetrating wound
nonexamination
old Paris
parrock
petticoat pipe
photoabsorption coefficient
physical quantity transducer
physical terminal
platyknemia
polypharmacological
post-processing
Predsolan
programmer manual
quadruple camera
quarry water
rational circle
roody
selling price variance
set name
sge
soulbonds
spoken to the point
sudden death clause
sugar mommy
test film
tonsil puncture
tracking study
transverse fissure
ultrasonic bomb
unborable
unlasered
welded plate girder
wintling
woodfordes