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
administrative policy manual
air transport group
Alencon lace
Amlia Knoll
attained pose
band crossing
Bolungarvik
brownout proof
BSD licenses
calcophylic
Cassirer
castroisms
cesser of hire or off-hire clause
chlorodimethylarsine
colorfulness of a perceived color
comes out of
configure settings
Cornish hedge
cost-improvements
cruciate sulcus (or cruciate fissure)
cupriferous
distomus
drum worm wheel
electric-heated hot-bed
element pair
estradiol patch
evanescent voltage
evasion time
experiment with clay model
family Burseraceae
floating gantry
frame television video recording
Gaussian variable
get the monkey off one's back
hack writer
have a lead of
high pressure gas vessel
hoe into
humanitian
Hylodesmum
icsf
in seven-league d boots
incompetent beds
index contour
inductionless
jazerra
joads
jobst
kokoshniki
Kondroarsenite
lobiped
methylglyoxal bis
montfaucon
Mpanganya
mullican
multizone system
murly
onetime
optical solutions
OSPF
osteochondroma
outside casing liner
outward documentary bill
panel link tv out interface
phthalin
pilot flame
PJT
placental sinus
pouring rain
pre-revolutionary
pressure-volume relationship
protection against insects
psychological state
pug mill type mixer
purple-fish
regular ship
Reilly
roller crusher conditioner
salpingid
Saxonise
semi-combed yarn
semigraphic annunciator
sensitometric wedge
sewaging
sini powder
spiral spur gear
standardized format
stockage objective
stowage on deck
support contour
support programme
Sylviinae
takuya
Tax-evaders
transmit direction
treasury remittance ledger
trisomic inheritance
United Nations Information Center
Valle San José
vestigial structure
virus busting
water tempering