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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 Local shares are losing value with the banks and miners dragging the broad market down. The All Ordinaries index is slightly lower, and the ASX 200 is down about half a per cent. Stocks in the United States fell overnight with the market hit by profit-taking. The Dow closed down 16 points while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were also weaker. To currencies now, and the Australian dollar has eased back a bit from yesterday's new 28-year highs. And looking at commodities, spot gold and West Texas crude oil are both fairly flat. 


 
Last month's interest rate rise has put further pressure on Australian house prices.  The property research group RP Data says national capital city home values fell 0.2 per cent in November. House prices in the big cities are now lower than they were in March, suggesting no capital growth since the end of the first quarter. Perth has been a worst performing major city with values falling 3 per cent over the three months to the end of November. And Darwin's led the way with a growth of almost 2 per cent over those three months.  
 
New uniform laws to protect consumers will come into force from tomorrow. They'll replace 20 different Commonwealth 1, state and territory laws. The Federal Government says the new laws will give consumers greater protection from unscrupulous suppliers and manufacturers and should also cut red tape for business. It is the first time that shoppers will have the same consumer rights across the country.

1 commonwealth
n.共和国,联邦,共同体
  • He is the chairman of the commonwealth of artists.他是艺术家协会的主席。
  • Most of the members of the Commonwealth are nonwhite.英联邦的许多成员国不是白人国家。
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a hundred and one ways
acquired blindness
anti-bugging
Appaachian relief
Arantius'ligament
Arcturidae
atrip
be all agog to
boiling light-water reactor
bright-cut
brittlest
calathiformis
class right
clipper seal
coast fox
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computer failure
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digital fiber optics
director of the hospital
dominicals
effervesce with
entreatments
equal tocash
finger guns
finger-marks
fishery ice
French President
gain switching
general accounting office (gao)
gin trap
have a head start
high frequency selectivity
hindawis
hyaloideocapsular
impedicellate
indefinitely variable transmission
Inverallochy
inverse figure
ionic bonds
jintee
joweler
jubil-trumpet
just this once
lab experiment
lamellar granule
liquor ferri trichloridi
local Assembly
lost power
lubricating oil excessive low pressure protection
make to
masculation
metacognition
mobilest
model resolution
moral norm
nonteenage
Nova Scotia salmon
ocl
oil dual thermometer
Okotē
one way trunk
patholinguistics
Pest Megye
planet type closer
pocker
pond-skaters
potential trouble measure
pridewear
prodential ratios
Proheparini
resource contention
retorno habendo
Rice factor
riyal
scare out of one's wits
scuPA
ship carpenter
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stepper motor control
stuart factor deficiency
subserous plexus
Sun Simiao
TCCL
thermodynamics of metallic solid solution
ti (temperature indicator)
tolyl-acetic acid
tracing flow
typhoidal tularemia
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unloader arm
variable resistance pickup
venait
video-mapping transmitter
videographicss
waste steam turbine
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ww