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
a silp of a boy
a-c erasure
activation cross-section
all in a lifetime
ammonia alum
ammoniaporin
awakeneth
back of a book
backing rudder ship
beam-to-beam weld
biogenic material
blepharismin
burst-correcting code
calderdale
caput ulnare musculi pronatoris teretis
cattiest
change over make before break contact
chestree
circular magnetic wave
cockpit air intake
continental apron
copesal
corpus luteum stage
dagaba
dawuni
development biology
dimmer sweep trace
disfancy
drainage machinery
exchange of resource
feminise
filled rubber
foreign debts
four-horses
frequency prediction chart
full hole thread
gastrodia tuber
globbed
grin like a Cheshire cat
have something
high speed duplicator
Hilbert scheme
home equity loan
hydroaerobics
hypopharyngeal process
importuners
improvement of orbit
impulse turbine
information safety
inside rear bowl
L chain
laryngosurgery
lie-in
liquid fire extinguisher
mail opener
manrico
metizoline
microseparator
misremembrances
molar average diffusivity
molecular susceptibilities
mystoriography
nitrobenzyl acetate
nonuniformity
nuqta
opium
Orap
oval-shaped hilum
panhandling
Parachlamydia
pesticide development
pipt-
Poix
Primula maikhaensis
quadah
quasi-academics
ran hot
Rehmannia henryi
rose tobacco flavour
sail-assisted fishing vessel
sensitive metal
sequential formula translation
simple fugue
single contact bulb
slaveocracy
slurpees
sour as vinegar
stabilitate
sumbuls
supplementary set of control character
tandem routing
terblanche
tub sizing
tubfish
Tunis cake
under-proportioned
unripening
vapour diffusion
Watamu
water-tube boiler with bent tubes
wye aye
ziglar