时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2011年


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 Well as we've heard jobs growth ground to a halt in the United States last month according to the latest unemployment figures, the US economy generated a paltry 1 18,000 jobs in June, much lower than expected. The fall in new jobs pushed the overall unemployment rate at 9.2 per cent with employers hiring the fewest number of workers in nine months. The data is dampening hopes the economy was on the cusp of regaining 2 momentum 3


 
It hasn't been announced yet, but the Gillard Government's carbon tax plan is all but certain to pass through Parliament. Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has announced he will support the tax when the legislation eventually hits Parliament.
 
The Reserve Bank assistant governor Guy Debelle says Australia's account deficits 4 are no cause for alarm. Australia's account deficits stood at 10.5 billion dollars at the end of the first quarter, prompting some investors 5 and bankers to raise concern. But Mr Debelle says Australia's banks aren't funding the current account.  
 
To the market numbers, mining stocks led the gains on the local share market. The All Ordinaries and the ASX 200 both ended the week higher. In the US, stocks plummeted 6 in the wake of that poor jobs data but they did manage to recover, most of those losses by the close. And the Australian dollar is currently hovering 7 around 108 US cents.

1 paltry
adj.无价值的,微不足道的
  • The parents had little interest in paltry domestic concerns.那些家长对家里鸡毛蒜皮的小事没什么兴趣。
  • I'm getting angry;and if you don't command that paltry spirit of yours.我要生气了,如果你不能振作你那点元气。
2 regaining
复得( regain的现在分词 ); 赢回; 重回; 复至某地
  • She was regaining consciousness now, but the fear was coming with her. 现在她正在恢发她的知觉,但是恐怖也就伴随着来了。
  • She said briefly, regaining her will with a click. 她干脆地答道,又马上重新振作起精神来。
3 momentum
n.动力,冲力,势头;动量
  • We exploit the energy and momentum conservation laws in this way.我们就是这样利用能量和动量守恒定律的。
  • The law of momentum conservation could supplant Newton's third law.动量守恒定律可以取代牛顿第三定律。
4 deficits
n.不足额( deficit的名词复数 );赤字;亏空;亏损
  • The Ministry of Finance consistently overestimated its budget deficits. 财政部一贯高估预算赤字。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Many of the world's farmers are also incurring economic deficits. 世界上许多农民还在遭受经济上的亏损。 来自辞典例句
5 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
6 plummeted
v.垂直落下,骤然跌落( plummet的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Share prices plummeted to an all-time low. 股票价格暴跌到历史最低点。
  • A plane plummeted to earth. 一架飞机一头栽向地面。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 hovering
鸟( hover的现在分词 ); 靠近(某事物); (人)徘徊; 犹豫
  • The helicopter was hovering about 100 metres above the pad. 直升机在离发射台一百米的上空盘旋。
  • I'm hovering between the concert and the play tonight. 我犹豫不决今晚是听音乐会还是看戏。
学英语单词
active-area
Amakusa-Shimo-shima
Amd.
Androsace rigida
ant-bears
appropriate to
arbor.
asterolecanium machili
astronomic parallel
atyrau (guryev)
bagatelle
Banneker, Benjamin
beyond sb's tehter
boomhauer
Bragg diffraction
brick facing
bromohyperhidrosis
caterpillar treads
cfat
Chloramoebaceae
computer-phobia
continentalise
cotidal
cross inn
curved buttress dam
decomps
difiore
disk backup
dislocation multiplication
Drypetes salicifolia
Efficient diversification
EI characteristic
elmaz
euproctis postfusca
fanconi-albertini-zellweger(syndrome)
field loop jumper
Fournier's treatment
fuel pit backwash water
genve
gig conveyer
graduate training scheme
gratification deprivation
Ichiki
industrial production
isotopic concentration
karling
law of lights
law of trichotomy
long path emitter
Masaya, L.de
measuring operation
Meknès, Prov.de
Meneng Dist.
miskitu
miss the target
Monkey Bay
Mordovian
NATO Joint Communications-Electronics Committee
Nīleh
occipital anchorage
octave band pressure level
oikiomania
omoo
one time and another
patchett
Physocarpus
pig heaven
Pompiloidea
post-trematic artery
profit before tax
pythium elongatum
Quinault L.
rate of capital return
ruckelshaus
safe-harbor
scale level
sedenes
self oiling
sequence file
shock wave interference
shortsyne
sigill
single-vehicle
skewerings
slice of array
snaring
spilliness
stembridge
strategic attack bombing
superior orbitals
surface board
swiss guards
sypers
That's all she wrote.
tremidine
tromping
type, instruction
U-Zr alloy
uncontrolled fashion
vanadium trichloride
wet gas
withhold business