时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2012年


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 The Organiazation for Economic Cooperation and Development says Australia has weathered the global economic crisis well and is in a good position to respond to further shocks. However, it says if the economy weakenssignificantly, the Federal Government shouldn't be afraid to abandon its pursuit of a budget surplus. It also recommends broadening the federal mining tax.


 
Eurozone finance ministers have finally released the next instalment of bailout money to Greece. Following months of delays, the cash-strapped country will receive 57 billion dollars to stay afloat. Greece will get most of the money in the coming days with the rest to follow next year.
 
The receiver of the failed lender Banksia Securities has raised the possibility of legal action against the group's auditor 1. Banksia collapsed 3 in October, owing investors 4 660 million dollars, many of them workers or retirees living in regional Victoria. At a creditors 5' meeting, Victorian investors were told they were likely to get just over half their money back. Receiver Toney Mcgrath says the auditor should be questioned over its role in the collapse 2.
 
Now, let's check the markets how they finished the week.
 
And in London, the FTSE down slightly. The Dax in Germany was up marginally.And in the US, we can see there was a down day for At the end of the trading week, the Dow falling 36 points. The S&P 500 off as well and the Nasdaq down.
 
Checking the currencies. 
 
The US... ah, against the US dollar, the Aussie is buying 105.5 US cents, 88 Yen 6, 80 Euro and 65 pence.

1 auditor
n.审计员,旁听着
  • The auditor was required to produce his working papers.那个审计员被要求提供其工作底稿。
  • The auditor examines the accounts of all county officers and departments.审计员查对所有县官员及各部门的帐目。
2 collapse
vi.累倒;昏倒;倒塌;塌陷
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
3 collapsed
adj.倒塌的
  • Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
  • The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
4 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
5 creditors
n.债权人,债主( creditor的名词复数 )
  • They agreed to repay their creditors over a period of three years. 他们同意3年内向债主还清欠款。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Creditors could obtain a writ for the arrest of their debtors. 债权人可以获得逮捕债务人的令状。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 yen
n. 日元;热望
  • He wanted to convert his dollars into Japanese yen.他想将美元换成日币。
  • He has a yen to be alone in a boat.他渴望独自呆在一条船上。
学英语单词
2-DIEP
arge
autoflash
babylonia areolata austraoceanensis
bar-stool
biastigmatism
blood-retina barrier
chemical remediation
chicken-shits
chiricahua apaches
chopped chopping
coconut-fibre
cohibit
coining compact
conceale
control rod lattice for criticality
coupling shaft
crimes against property
dense phosphate crown
deyoung
diffusing media
diode suppresser
distribution anisotropy
distribution trade
double graphite sleeve
draftmate
edge-support interface
electric fresh water heater
elliott type axle
expected data
field press censorships
fishing hook
Flauenskjold
florepleno
free valve mechanism
free-center-type clamp
galvanizing hot dip
Gibraltar for Orders
good Goddess
Habay-la-Neuve
hemobilirubin
hernangerine
heyses
high density cement
hose proof machine
hyperoxidative
hypomelanotic
interaction of species
intrinsic coercivity
Iyevkovo
lace paper
left-of-center
libelled
Little Tennessee River
martialities
mental institutions
Meredith, L.
metatrochophora
methylgreen-pyronine
mish-mash
molybdenumiron
monacolins
Muzalëvka
narrow-leaved plantain
nervi supraclaviculares
ninjutsus
Nunavimmiut
output (process)
paring knives
pipet filler
pked
qalat siman
radomir
remaining deviation
renal dysplasia
rose pinks
router table
selenous acid anhydride
sempre forte
serve a sentence on bail
shark oil
Silene macrostyla
silicate crown
silicon controlled
skive off sth
Solanum wendlandii
sorting key word
spratlike
spray solidification
Starbuck Glacier
static electricity spraying
structural material swelling
subsea work enclosure
tawite-porphyry
theoretical volumetric efficiency
tight monetary policy
titanic iron ore (ilmenite)
unhills
uniform effluent standard
vibration screen
wanjigis
water yam