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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Stock markets around the world have fallen after the US president proposed sweeping 1 new rules for Wall Street banks. Barak Obama's proposals could dramatically curtail 2 the activities of American financial institutions, limiting their size and risk taking. 


Wall Street reacted badly to the news. The Dow closed more than 2% lower. The market was also dragged down by tech shares after a subsidiary of Google reported weak revenue. Uncertainty 3 and the prospect 4 of more regulation hit bank share prices in Europe as well. Britain's FTSE suffered its biggest weekly fall in nearly three months. The trend continued in the Asia. Japan's Nikkei slipped more than 2.5% in Friday trade. And the Australian dollar is buying 90 US cents, 55.9 British pence and 80.9 Japanese yen 5 in the early Saturday trade.




The US president has weighed into the stash 6 between China and internet company Google. Barack Obama says he is looking for answers from China over an alleged 7 cyber-breach. Google threatened to withdraw from China after in a hacking 8 attempt on the email accounts of human rights activists 9 was reported




And Mcdonald's profits have jumped almost a quarter in the fourth quarter. The fast food giant’s attributing the upsides to stronger global sales.


 


And that’s ABC Business. 



1 sweeping
adj.范围广大的,一扫无遗的
  • The citizens voted for sweeping reforms.公民投票支持全面的改革。
  • Can you hear the wind sweeping through the branches?你能听到风掠过树枝的声音吗?
2 curtail
vt.截短,缩短;削减
  • The government hopes to curtail public spending.政府希望缩减公共事业开支。
  • The minister had to curtail his visit.部长不得不缩短访问日期。
3 uncertainty
n.易变,靠不住,不确知,不确定的事物
  • Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
  • After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后,压力开始产生影响了。
4 prospect
n.前景,前途;景色,视野
  • This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect.事态呈现出可喜的前景。
  • The prospect became more evident.前景变得更加明朗了。
5 yen
n. 日元;热望
  • He wanted to convert his dollars into Japanese yen.他想将美元换成日币。
  • He has a yen to be alone in a boat.他渴望独自呆在一条船上。
6 stash
v.藏或贮存于一秘密处所;n.隐藏处
  • Stash away both what you lost and gained,for life continues on.将得失深藏心底吧,为了那未来的生活。
  • That's supposed to be in our private stash.这是我的私人珍藏。
7 alleged
a.被指控的,嫌疑的
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
8 hacking
n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动
  • The patient with emphysema is hacking all day. 这个肺气肿病人整天不断地干咳。
  • We undertook the task of hacking our way through the jungle. 我们负责在丛林中开路。
9 activists
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
6-azacytidine
active threat
airmasses
alekoki (hawaii)
asheka
autotransplant
backshoots
blow off steam
bog in
boiled chicken with cream sauce
buffeting
Buscha
Campanula glomerata
cardianstrophe
clinoscopic
code stop
condensation-preventing chemicals
countersanction
data input devices
docking bridge awning beam
dope runner
DSBV
dysfunction of spleen in transportation
extolments
family Potamogetonaceae
fetal development
fieldistor channel
fixed decimal
flash boilers
forevacuum condenser
fourlimbed
frequency thermometer
frowzy
Generation language
georeferencing
glaucic acid
gleditsch
grey friar
half-pigs
hand-running
intermediate carry status
jato unit
kalcio-talk (calciotalk)
keckite
Kedah, State of
keyed advertising
knock off core
laphonso
large white kidney
large-scale computer
lepidosaphes cycadicola
local distributed data interface
loss on fire
Mairiporã
marginal stability
mass-spectrometer detector
maximum tolerable period of disruption
mensurals
ming-na
modernisation
moored subsurface buoy
Murone-san
non icing carburetor
Ormes Bay
palisade stereide
parniss
Pecan Island
personal parallax
post-typhoid fever
pre-sintering
product lot sampling
purchase order summary maintenance edit list
R-banding
ratio error verification
rear windows
right half rudder
sandwich
school expansion
scientific inventory control
serum sickness urticaria
Shuho
single-phase winding
sink one's differences
software definition
spectral dimension
squabbling bleeder
stryngest
subleaders
taxol
tectonite(tektonite)
telescopic flow
term end account
track-return power system
traducian
truckyard
undetected fault
vibratiuncles
vignetting of lens
viier
water pipe head
winter draught