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
Allaben
angioscotoma
animal behavior approach
antisuppressor
aulopus japonicas
Barinophyton
be iffy
beglic
Beziers
blu-tac
bulid
candle trees
capability of
card chase
cast iron solder
climate denialism
clutch at a straw
CMHCsA
color matches
committee on the peaceful uses of radioisotope
contracptive device
critical water content
cross-vote
crustal movements
crystallic
Cupressocrinus
Darrūd, Rūd-e
death-worm
debt due
debug test
discount breakeven point
electron coupling oscillator
endogenous business-cycle theory
epimillerite
escalantes
exocrines
falsealarm
flame ionization chromatograph
flashmob
for anything someone knows
forging-press
future horismos
gonorrheal synovitis
ground loiter
hedge-hyssop
horace manns
hypomobility
industrial schools
inland dune
intensifier booster
iodica purpura
Jaraguari
joypop
maltout
manganese-Autunite
masked diabetes
memorial meeting
milvian
mirror reading
monocarpic plants
multicolumn tariff
Mānākot
nickel bags
optical beams
Outoul
over-voltage device
pizzas
pray-ers
prevaricant
prograde motion
proteocrasis
raddie
rechipped
redhorse
remote control signals selection
ribbon element
shoulders
snow mews
social action programme
solway
special buffering procedure
stable-type gravimeter
submarine delta
Sukhinichskiy Rayon
tac point
Tadoba National Park
tawaif
Tchaikovsky, Peter llyich
ted hughess
throws off
time orientation
torque measuring device
torulus
tractus olfactorius intermediate type
Troxypyrrole
tyeken
unmedicinal
ureteroscopic
us visit
veterinary station
videoscope
Zygomycotina