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 down. The DAX and Euro were both higher.


 
 
 
In the US, trading comes to a close shortly and the Dow Jones is higher. The S&P 500 is also up.
 
 
 
And the Australian dollar is worth nearly 103 US this morning. It'll also buy you 65 British pence 1 and 128 New Zealand.
 
 
 
A private survey has found the growth of online sales continues to outpace the growth of instore sales. The amount of money spent online rose around 25% in July compared to a year earlier. NAB's online retail 2 sales index 3 found internet sales made up 5.3% of total retail spending at 11.7 billion dollars.
 
 
 
Tasmanian forest products company Gunns has reported a net loss of 904 million dollars for the past financial year. This compares to an almost 356-million-dollar loss for the previous 12 months. The company has blamed costs associated with the major restructure and the state of the export woodchip market.

1 pence
n.便士;名词penny的复数形式
  • She counted out fifteen pence and passed it to the salesgirl.她数出15个便士交给女店员。
  • These apples are selling at 40 pence a kilo.这些苹果售价每公斤40便士。
2 retail
v./n.零售;adv.以零售价格
  • In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
  • These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。
3 index
n.食指;索引;标志;指数;v.把...编索引
  • Performonce is an index of ability.成绩是能力的标志。
  • Manner of walking gives an index to one's charactor.走路的姿态可反应出人的性格。
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absolute indirect addressing
active tectonic belt
ametabolion
analogous pole
Anaximander
appended document
areactive immunity
ariannas
astoniedness
boardmembers
bonapartist
borrowing potential power
bottom-hole assembly
bubaline group
Burejo, R.
casalty
cattons
CHINOPERL
Cirsium hupehense
citrus mayerii y. tanaka
CMEH
cocktailed
coming backs
Continuity of Care Record
control submarine chaser
cowschote
d-chondocurarine
determinatively
disorders
downsets
draft control system
dual passive boundary point
eletronation
emunctory
erode
expansion index
fewls
fibre-forming viscosity
fire-breathers
Fresh from the oven
gahnite
graduater
hacked-up
half-moon-shaped
Haplochilus panchax
Hatt
high speed plasma chromatography
holopolar
indemnity form
Independence Hall
isi
karataviensis
Kuck classification schema
lateral raise
lithiases
lords temporal
low-Clinoenstatite
Lutherans
madocs
man-to-man defense
Microsoft Application Virtualization
monmouth
movement area
MS-1
multi-parts
non-polar
nonplanted
nonprocedural referencing language
Omarama
otoplasty
Pinalia amica
podospora dolichopodalis
postfascist
prairie white-fringed orchids
Prinsepia uniflora Batal.
Pritchardia
product security
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provincial assembly
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rectotendon
redefend
sceleratine
select the most favorable alternatives
self sweating
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sensest
skeletogenesis
sound intensity measurement
starter voltage drop
surface potential
system code
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triclinic symmetry of fabric
unbeings
unicams
vac
water slug
water-tube boiler with bent tubes
well-off collectives