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
acid curd
active sintered bar
al haniyah
al qadarif (gedaref )
ammonium vanadium sulfate
amplitude-modulated
annular seal
armourists
aryl sulfatase
associating input
automatic replacer
Bundeswehr
burn-out indicator
comite international des poids et mesures (cipm)
computation laboratory
confidence allowance
Congo Canyon
crystallinity by density measurement
cyclotropin
declare type and size
defuze
dentography
dramatic arts
Durlach
emperished
ex-gi
excursionizing
faba-
fastusinine
forward momentum
fresh water mud
friction-twist draw-texturing machine
fris
fuel tanker
gastro-enteritis
giltest
glass film plate
high-energy-rate forming
hydrazine injection
hydrogen intake from air gap
injector torch
installment payment
isobaric heat(ing) effect
isorhamnonose
jackarse
lecanorchis subpelorica
linear restriction
macropterous
mammooda
marine zoology
meijes
mirror
multifunction peripheral
multiroll crusher
naked truth
net cash investment
nient
noncompact
oblique cleft
Ochiishi-misaki
oncootic
other long-term investments
Pearlweed
performings
phraortes formosanus
process map
pseudowax
pterocarpuss
put it baldly
real part condition
receiver of remote-control sytem
repingtons
rib of piston
ridge lines
rural credit association
Self-Employment Tax
sensor glove
setipafant
significant others
single sheave metal block
skillicorn
sleeper respacing
slope of ways
Southwest Indian
special analog system
spilters
split tax
stamps
stemmaticss
stomping ground
streamhandling
submersibles
syntonise
theoretical point of frag
tongue-tying
transition current
travel and entertainment
unstudious
Verdalsφra
wagon static load
yes-man, yesmen
Zernez