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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Queensland-based mining company Macarthur Coal has delayed a shareholder 1 meeting, planned to vote on a takeover offer. Shareholders 2 were due to decide on a proposal from the Noble Group on Monday. But the meeting has been postponed 3 for a week that's to allow investors 4 more time to consider the deal. Macarthur's board rejected an offer from US company Peabody earlier this week.


 


A leading ratings agency has downgraded Greece's credit rating by two notches 5. The European Union says members of the bloc 6 are ready to respond to a call for help. Greece needs nearly 17 billion dollars by next month to cover its debts, and investors say a bailout is increasingly likely.


 


To the markets now, and Greek bank shares closed 7.1 percent higher over speculation 7 on a pending 8 agreement. European shares rallied to post a sixth consecutive 9 weekly gain. The FTSE also closed higher. US stocks finished strongly marking a sixth straight week of gains for the three indices. And Australian shares also on a gain streak 10 with nine weeks of rises.


 


And Qantas frequent flyers have received an apology email from the company's CEO for recent disruptions in its international network. Seven planes have suffered equipment failures over the past two weeks, but the airline says safety was never an issue.


 


And that's ABC Business News .



1 shareholder
n.股东,股票持有人
  • The account department have prepare a financial statement for the shareholder.财务部为股东准备了一份财务报表。
  • A shareholder may transfer his shares in accordance with the law.股东持有的股份可以依法转让。
2 shareholders
n.股东( shareholder的名词复数 )
  • The meeting was attended by 90% of shareholders. 90%的股东出席了会议。
  • the company's fiduciary duty to its shareholders 公司对股东负有的受托责任
3 postponed
vt.& vi.延期,缓办,(使)延迟vt.把…放在次要地位;[语]把…放在后面(或句尾)vi.(疟疾等)延缓发作(或复发)
  • The trial was postponed indefinitely. 审讯无限期延迟。
  • The game has already been postponed three times. 这场比赛已经三度延期了。
4 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
5 notches
n.(边缘或表面上的)V型痕迹( notch的名词复数 );刻痕;水平;等级
  • The Indians cut notches on a stick to keep count of numbers. 印第安人在棒上刻V形凹痕用来计数。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • They cut notches in the handle of their pistol for each man they shot. 他们每杀一个人就在枪托上刻下一个V形记号。 来自辞典例句
6 bloc
n.集团;联盟
  • A solid bloc of union members support the decision.工会会员团结起来支持该决定。
  • There have been growing tensions within the trading bloc.贸易同盟国的关系越来越紧张。
7 speculation
n.思索,沉思;猜测;投机
  • Her mind is occupied with speculation.她的头脑忙于思考。
  • There is widespread speculation that he is going to resign.人们普遍推测他要辞职。
8 pending
prep.直到,等待…期间;adj.待定的;迫近的
  • The lawsuit is still pending in the state court.这案子仍在州法庭等待定夺。
  • He knew my examination was pending.他知道我就要考试了。
9 consecutive
adj.连续的,联贯的,始终一贯的
  • It has rained for four consecutive days.已连续下了四天雨。
  • The policy of our Party is consecutive.我党的政策始终如一。
10 streak
n.条理,斑纹,倾向,少许,痕迹;v.加条纹,变成条纹,奔驰,快速移动
  • The Indians used to streak their faces with paint.印第安人过去常用颜料在脸上涂条纹。
  • Why did you streak the tree?你为什么在树上刻条纹?
学英语单词
amphidiploid hybrid
annealing color
asthenic form
asura tricolor
Bothriocephalus latus
branling
by-pass capacitor
Calaceite
Caltraghlea
Casas de los Pinos
Cedar Breaks National Monument
chronic yellow atrophy of liver
cleuch
coarse azimuth
coefficient of rolling friction
collimating cone
collision threat assessment system
colubriferous
complementary events
comunales
constitutive substance
convexifies
crm (count rate meter)
crude iron
crypto-anarchists
cyber espionage
direct production cost
double overhead wide belt sander
ductility transition
electric dipole radiation
embedded lump
error probability classification
etrange
extra classes
fibre needle
field intensity curve
flush system buffer
free speed
fungicidal finish
herborist
Herculanean
homeschoolers
i-tend
implicit schemes
inclinatio Pelvis
insertest
inside broker
isochratic
JRT
jungfraujoch
Khodyashevo
kommunalka
long-continued questioning
marcour
mars pigment
masseteric cutaneous ligament
minidomes
mirada
Nanam
night-vision
Norte, Pta.
nutrigenetics
octlet
orbicularity
outer orbital configuration
Oxford-Groupel
painting on a bamboo curtain
peace marcher
pellucistoma magnolioidea
platform shoe
point-device,point-devise
problemists
prolixness
promoteability
rattail radish
Reophax
riordon
roundspeople
Runsten
safety instrument
salt sedative
saluside
self-consequence
semibituminous coal
slender loriss
sliding poise
sodium penicillin K
special purpose radar set
sponge out
sporterized
sufficient light
suspect ... of
taglia
three-boom drift-jumbo
tituled
tri-pronged-type universal joint
two bin inventory system
up-side-down
vijayas
Whitekirk
won't kill you him
zounds