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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 The US unemployment dropped to 1.5-year low of 9.4 per cent in December. New figures show the US economy generated a disappointing 103,000 new jobs. The Federal Reserve chairman remains 1 cautiously upbeat about the country's economic recovery. Ben Bernanke cited improvements in consumer spending and a drop in jobless claims as hopeful signs that a fragile recovery was perking 2 up.


 
Well, back home, the market's been focused on Queensland's flooding all week with investors 3 concerned about the cost to the economy. Some market economists 4 say the disaster will wipe about $6 billion of the nation's GDP. The material sector 5 including the minors 6 has been the hardest-hit. Taking a look at the markets now and as a result, the share market finished the week on a negative note - both the All Ords and the ASX200 closed 0.4 per cent lower on Friday. US stocks rallied after the US jobs data was released, but the Dow Jones is yet to make up for earlier losses.
 
And in Europe, the main stock markets there fell on Friday with investors cautious ahead of eagerly-awaited US unemployment figures. London's FTSE slid half a per cent. Elsewhere in the region, markets mixed, the Nikkei gained 11 points. And checking the currencies there, the Australian dollar is fairly flat against the greenback.

1 remains
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
2 perking
(使)活跃( perk的现在分词 ); (使)增值; 使更有趣
  • The weather seems to be perking up. 天气似乎要变好。
  • She is perking herself at mirror. 她正对镜化妆。
3 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
4 economists
n.经济学家,经济专家( economist的名词复数 )
  • The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
  • Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 sector
n.部门,部分;防御地段,防区;扇形
  • The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
  • The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。
6 minors
n.未成年人( minor的名词复数 );副修科目;小公司;[逻辑学]小前提v.[主美国英语]副修,选修,兼修( minor的第三人称单数 )
  • The law forbids shops to sell alcohol to minors. 法律禁止商店向未成年者出售含酒精的饮料。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He had three minors this semester. 这学期他有三门副修科目。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
active cassette
aeshna
agathidium (microceble) amictum
altigraphs
architectural creation
basic terminal
bastard amber
Bitter plate
capacitor discharge magnetizer
catchup
centrifugal analysis
cereal combine
Cerenkov resonant effect
cheapable
Clerk of the Crown in Chancery
coin-tossing
contact capacity
convoluted peak
corrosion resistant alloy
counseling and guidance
crotonylenes
cuprocuprite
d.t.l.
Dabel
Deltahydrocortisone
diesel electric drive
dividing apparatus
donship
double-ended guillotine break
eductors
effigurate
El Imperio
fax-on-demand
fully-stocked
geological prospecting
geosynchronous orbits
ghost marks
give no quarter quarters
gluten-fibrin
GUI builder
halfpasts
hamman-rich lung
Harper, Fletcher
heading punch
hemigaluss
heparization
hydrodynamics of fishing gears
interwreathed
joint
koines
L.O.O.M.
latch up
law-ideology
leagueist
lipoidal degeneration
local property
long wave length
low-noise motion picture camera
magnotest
mato
matriculate
metroplis
mitralism
morphogenetic gene
multi-circuit braking
nonunitary
ovariectomize
oxetane polymer
Parnassia degeensis
Pedunculus thalamicus inferior
person-centered
planktobacteria
Ponao
postgenital
provisorship
pubo-femoral ligament
quantity complete current operation
rigden
roll-forwards
Rouillac
round-off file
sand liquefaction
Santo Domingo Indian Reservation
second species
secular movements of the earth's crust
significance point
sinonatrix percarinata
speed and distance recorder
squamous temporal bone
staatskapelles
stale fish
stretcher of belt
string figure
strip sth away
synergistic reaction
thalamic animal
tristigmatic
unionbusters
unobservable value
URAA
wage-slave
water colour