时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2012年


英语课

 Facebook shares have fallen to 19 US dollars a share overnight. It follows the expiry of a ban that has prevented some investors 1 from dumping millions of shares in the social networking leader. The fall marks another low point in the continuing run of bad news since its high-touted stock market debut 2 in May. Facebook has lost about half its value since going public.


 
 
Australian Federal Police are investigating 25 million dollars in fraudulent transaction racked up with stolen credit card numbers. The AFP says multiple companies have had their computer systems compromised and half a million card numbers have been stolen. It says it's part of an international investigation 3.
 
 
Natural disasters in China destroyed 88,000 houses and damaged more than two million hectares of farmland. The three consecutive 4 typhoons have hit China's coastal 5 areas in the past two weeks. The economic impact is estimated to be around 10 billion dollars. Fruit and vegetables and aquacultural farms were heavily hit.
 
 
When Euro(a slip of the tongue)....European markets closed, London's FTSE was up 18 points. The DAX in Germany up 45. And a good day, all up in Europe, as it was in the US to finish the trading with the Dow finishing up 25 points. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq also rising.

1 investors
n.投资者,出资者( investor的名词复数 )
  • a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
  • a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
2 debut
n.首次演出,初次露面
  • That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里,他初次在百老汇登台,扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
  • The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。
3 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
4 consecutive
adj.连续的,联贯的,始终一贯的
  • It has rained for four consecutive days.已连续下了四天雨。
  • The policy of our Party is consecutive.我党的政策始终如一。
5 coastal
adj.海岸的,沿海的,沿岸的
  • The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
  • This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。
学英语单词
Ambot
ancestim
apoplexy involving the hollow organs
arguablest
ATPR
aural polyp
Cantillana
capeman
cartonfuls
cash donation
chlorantraniliprole
Cinzas, R.das
circulation failure
climatotherapy
columinescence effect
craniopharyngioma
cut them out
deoxyadenosine moniphosphate
derigueur
detorting
division center
encortin
English saddle
escape speed
exultingly
facultyman
femtocells
fibre cross-talk
flight line of aerial photography
flushing rubefaction
fps
gearing oil sprayer
harira
have a shy at something
hold sb in honor
Hopkinson yoke
Huon River
Hylobatidae
incremental cost
interpenetrative
interwinding backbone
iothalamates
joint with single butt strap
junk financing
keep off the spot
key brick
letter boxes
lido di roma (lido di ostia)
lilyturfs
lytropic liquid crystals
magnox
main class
manahawkin
march order
mosquito boat
MTAU
mtpa
natural model
non-linear field theorv
novatophan
off-axis distribution
overhaulings
packet radio
percentage uncertainty
pezzolis
plafibride
planariids
propeller shaft turning wrench
reconstructive surgeries
resliced
resplendencies
resulting tide
ring groove carbon remover
rock blasting
roseal
rotating-loop antenna
SAL (symbolic assembly language)
Samara River
Sargent
self love
sensitive thermometer
set-point
simavastatin
SMA-60
solventless coil
sovok
spacelike line
steel-lined wire winding channel
strum plate
sudoxicam
suicidal ideation
syndactylous
tendotransplantatio periostealis
thrust pressure
thunderegg
torch oil gun
tornadocane
traumatise
ultrared heating
violinophone
viral rubella
wilhelm eduard webers