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。
学英语单词
'omes
a handsome sum of money
balconettes
Beilul
bench-type edge bander
bereswill
biplanar rotation
blue-roan
boiler blow out pipeline
broadsied sailing boat
buoyage system
business frontage
cardiid
Ceratophyllum inflatum
clapped up
claudels
cokeballs
comber
cornworms
curvaticin
diffusion shell
diffussion problem
dress-basket
etek
field failure data
fluting board
general capital increase
gentex call number
gilt edged securities
gross horse-power
guitar cello
handlebar grips
High Holy Day
Hillsdale County
hostless system
hypertrophic lymphangioma
indicarminum
industrial infrastructure
judicial bureau
juncaceaes
keep sb in the trot
keystone herbivore
kingsw
lacri(mo)-
light observation quiet aircraft
likiangensis
limits of autoignition
logon owner name
Magic Trackpad
maritime training academy
Matsuda-gawa
minimalises
missile ranging miran
mode II fracture
monotonic decreasing quantity
morinamide
muricola ruminantium
musty odo(u)r
navigable channel depth
Ngol Bembo
nonmutilated
nonpink
orphen
overactives
overmoderated
Pay me
peaking pulse
penetration of hardness
phrase book
police-officer
possessioner
prime move
principle of ability to pay
pyloric canal ulcer
quantitied
queen's
reflcetivity
rhincholites
Rhodiola serrata
royal progresses
Semirara
sidesway
simple consistency
simple postfix translation
single-page
skintight
spares for accommodation outfit
speckle method
spring-safety valve
standard subset
streaming formatter/controller
syntax-based query optimization
tempering moisture
thiolation
treponemal antigen test
umiak
universal transverse mercator projection (utm projection)
veralbidine
vitamin B-12
zap'em-up
zoellers
zoias