澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-11-30
时间：2018-12-11 作者：英语课 分类：澳洲ABC新闻快递2011年
英语课
And there was more sobering economic news out of Europe overnight. Britain's Office of (口误，应为for) Budget Responsibility said the British economy will grow by less than one per cent this year. Now it predicts the growth will be just 0.7 of one per cent next year--that's well down from the 2.5 per cent forecast in March. The British chancellor 1 says the situation would be much worse if eurozone countries don't fix their debt crisis.
“That this central forecast assumes--in their words--that the euro area finds a way through the current crisis, and that policymakers eventually find a solution that delivers sovereign debt sustainability. If they do not, then the OBR warn that there could be a much worse outcome for Britain. I believe they are right. We hope this can be averted 2. But if the rest of Europe heads into recession, it may prove hard to avoid one here in the UK.”
George Osborne there
To the markets.
And they have closed in the US in positive territory this morning. In fact, the Dow Jones closed 35 points higher. The NASDAQ put on 11 points--in fact it dropped 11 points. The S&P 500 up seven and the FTSE in London put on 24 points.
Checking commodity prices. West Texas Crude is trading at 99 US dollars and 74 cents a barrel. Tapis crude’s at 118 US dollars and 34 cents a barrel. And gold’s at 1,716 US dollars 59 cents an ounce. The Australian dollar is at parity 3. It's also buying 75 euro cents and 64 pence sterling 4.
1 chancellor
n.(英)大臣；法官；(德、奥)总理；大学校长
- They submitted their reports to the Chancellor yesterday.他们昨天向财政大臣递交了报告。
- He was regarded as the most successful Chancellor of modern times.他被认为是现代最成功的财政大臣。
2 averted
防止，避免( avert的过去式和过去分词 )； 转移
- A disaster was narrowly averted. 及时防止了一场灾难。
- Thanks to her skilful handling of the affair, the problem was averted. 多亏她对事情处理得巧妙，才避免了麻烦。