时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2010年


英语课

Economic growth in Europe has faltered 1 despite government’s spending billions of dollars in stimulus 2. New figures show that in the final quarter of last year, growth in the 16 eurozone countries was 0.1%. Spain is in its 6th quarter of negative growth. The recession in Greece also deepened, its economy shrank by 0.81% in the final quarter of 2009. And GDP across Europe fell by 4% over the course of the year.


 


Those figures dampened world share markets, banks and commodities stocks pushed the FTSE down one third of a percent. Germany’s DAX also slipped slightly. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones lost nearly 0.5%. The NASDAQ closed up slightly.


 


The Australian market closed the week slightly higher. The big miners gained some ground, but banks and finance stocks slipped.


 


Tokyo’s Nikkei was the strongest performer in Asia, it gained 1.25%.


 


Checking the currencies, the dollar slipped slightly against the greenback and it’s up against the Euro.


 


And Toyota President Akio Toyoda is prepared to testify US congressional hearings if he is asked according to Japanese media reports. The world’s leading carmaker has been forced to recall 8.5 million vehicles worldwide because of faulty brake and accelerator problems.


 


That’s ABC Business News.



1 faltered
(嗓音)颤抖( falter的过去式和过去分词 ); 支吾其词; 蹒跚; 摇晃
  • He faltered out a few words. 他支吾地说出了几句。
  • "Er - but he has such a longhead!" the man faltered. 他不好意思似的嚅嗫着:“这孩子脑袋真长。”
2 stimulus
n.刺激,刺激物,促进因素,引起兴奋的事物
  • Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
  • Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。
学英语单词
acanthoidine
adjacent line
air-breather
ambiguohypoglossal
avoking
bestower
buffer reagent
buy-and-holds
catanator
caveling
chlordan
cost-reimbursement
de-activation
Deinotherioidea
democratic values
desoxypyridoxine
dexamethasones
diameter of working disk
diatonic auxiliary note
discretamine
domain magnetization
double-layer fluorescent screen
dropper plate of free grain
Drusze
dynamicize
editon
elbow equivalent
electrode-travel motor
embraced
endomycopsis hordel
Engler viscosimeter
fairwells
fang-likest
fawns on
federal radio act 1927
fling oneself into the breach
fluoroolefin
free-taking
general staff
grinding media charge
hachi
hard-fightings
Hatsukaichi
HRST
ignition of precipitate
inverse mercator
iodine trap
jM-factor
karhunen loeve transform (klt)
kemerer
laughing-eyed
liege poustie
light-alloy armo(u)r
Longué-Jumelles
lophocoronids
Louis Henri
market chaotic
multistage linear amplifier
Narfeyri
Ngoso
octuplex
optical fiber ribbons
organised-crimes
pass in a program
pelviroentgenography
photoelectrocatalytic reactor
phrenemphraxis
polar moments of inertia
portcullised
practice range
prevelar
primordisl endoderm cells
reave
Rectocillin
residual concentration
Riemann upper integral
rifle shot
safo
saltations
screw-tap
sebiferic acid
second anchor
short-lived asset
sleight-of-hand
sniol
sound-barriers
speed change control
stalk extractor
structurality
Tharrawaw
thirst bucket
thoughted
three-dimensional imaging
throw dust in someone's eyes
transnationally
unwed mother
vel non
voiced sounds
votes down
well-customed
wharfies
wrecking