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
2-phenyl-5-oxazolone
a long tongue
absolute photovisual magnitude
activation theory of emotion
aedoeagus
aircraft shielding
ani fissura
animatron
arched timbering
ashless coal
barometric depression
basilophorous
book capacity
briefing line
Britten-Davidson model
cachars
cata-condensed hydrocarbon
Catacaos
clock case cover
computations
computer service network
confixure
critical stability
cultus
de-adapts
dewer
double-acting actuator
edell
enchondroma petrificum
equi-normal distribution
erbia
ESTAE
Eston-B
extra-lemon pale
f.d.a
floose
fractional sound
Frey cutter
functional switching
global dictionary
gloryhole
granular infusion for influenza and fever
height of wave
heuristic pruning
hydrogeologies
infection phase
intelligence-sharing
interstitial cracking
jeande
Kopp's law of additive volumes
lattice heating
livetenant
load nature of electricity consumed
lose oneself in
magnetic tape eraser
major cable
marvinol
matched bearing
medial globus pallidus
mellissa
microspectrofluorimeter
mildew
Minimum-variance frontier
Muňana
optical fiber bundle
Oxy-Chinol
parking braking
penaeopsis rectacuta
permanent residence
physically ill
piston drive
polyarginine
post-geosynclinal epoch
power company
precuneal
press proofs
proof beyond reasonable doubt
pyro-chemical
quaestor
railroad rail
root induction
rust-cock
self-propelled power mower
shapinsays
Short Transverse Direction
sideforce
simulation velocity
smart investment
spacenumber
speed-course-latitude error
static evaluation
Strigeata
translational scattering
under-use
valve rocker arm shaft bracket
vicaria
voice onset time (vot)
Vredestein
well width
Wetaskiwin
white glaze with brown mottles
white glove test