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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 And when the markets in Europe closed a couple of hours ago, London's FTSE 100 was 96 points higher. In the US, trading comes to a close shortly and the Dow Jones is up 30 points, while the S&P 500 is flat.


 
 
 
And the Australian dollar is worth 105 US this morning. It'll also buy you 65 British pence and a dollar 27 New Zealand.
 
 
 
Australia's third largest iron ore miner has entered a trading halt in the wake of a share price slide. Fortescue Metal Group's shares have been placed in a trading halt until Tuesday when it is expected the compnay will make an announcement about refinancing its dart(a slip of the tongue)... debt levels. The company's shares plunged 1 almost 14 percent to just under 3 dollars on Thursday. 
 
 
 
“It's surprising it wasn't taken earlier, because there was so much talk in marketplace that the company was having problems.”
 
 
 
FMG has already been foreced to wind back its expansion projects and sack about 1,000 employees because of tumbling iron ore prices. 
 
 
 
And the West Australia premier 2 Collin Barnett has used his speech to a business conference to urge China to join in the development of the Browse 3 Gas Reserve and the Oakajee port and rail project. Mr Barnett says he's got a political stake in both projects and is working hard to get them off the ground.

1 plunged
v.颠簸( plunge的过去式和过去分词 );暴跌;骤降;突降
  • The train derailed and plunged into the river. 火车脱轨栽进了河里。
  • She lost her balance and plunged 100 feet to her death. 她没有站稳,从100英尺的高处跌下摔死了。
2 premier
adj.首要的;n.总理,首相
  • The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
  • He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。
3 browse
vi.随意翻阅,浏览;(牛、羊等)吃草
  • I had a browse through the books on her shelf.我浏览了一下她书架上的书。
  • It is a good idea to browse through it first.最好先通篇浏览一遍。
学英语单词
a man of high standing
abbrev.
all-knowings
anacanthus barbatus
anomala mizusawai
antonio amaro
associate(d)
astringer
bemoiling
besplashing
black dogwood
Bowmont
budget and accounting act
cancer nadaensis
cast iron standard parts
cave formation
Commercial Credit Conference Form
cresotinic acid
crogball
dark green
Delo
description point
dimcontinue
distance formulae
duration of heat release
eastern plane
ecophilosophy
entraining
examine and verify
fuel fission
gas-cooled breeder reactor
genodermatosis
give oneself up to despair
Greenwich Time-Zone
herring-cob
high speed vessel
histolytically
hospital beds
imidophosphonic acid
inventory systems
isobrightness
it was said
jump-ball
kamarck
Kuril'skiye Ostrova
Kāveripatnam
latter part
Lysholm type compressor
mable
meliosma platypoda rehd. et wils
military government
milk bottles
negotiable amount
Nether Alderley
no hurry
nrd
oxaloacetic acid-enolphosphate
paleontological species
panegyrise
parabranchium
parallel drum winding
penancing
player-piano
plod along
pollutant interaction
positive causal link
principal axis of a quadric
pyknodysostosis
Quercus virginiana
quipp
radius rod
ramble over
rattlesome
ribozymology
Richmond, Mt.
rockys
roumm
same-day
sanl
schistocormus fissiventralis
self-propelled crust breaker
skeeziness
smoothing constant
spamless
Stephan
story-tellings
streaming factor
superior pelvic aperture
sustain damage
technophobe
time-integrated neutron flux
tips in
tks
toy store
upsodown
vat water disinfection
velum palatinum
water measure
wedge type snubber
white-friars
winegrapes
Yoshikuni