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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 Seven West Media was the worst performing stock in the ASX top 200 list of stocks,ending 14% lower.Investors 1 bailed 2 out of the shares after the announcement,former energy executive,Don Bounty 3,will take over as chief executive for Media stalwart,David Lake.Morning Staff media analysts 4 say investors are concerned Mr.Bounty does't have enough media experience.Elsewhere in the sector,shares in Ten Network lost 3%.Gina Rinehart and Lachlan Murdoch took up their rights entitlements and bought more shares in Ten.Fair Fax share slipped 3.5% after Gina Rinehart threatened to sell her majority stake,if she's not awarded board seat.And Billiton clawed back 6% of yesterday's 34% loss.


 
Onto the aboard market,and Europe's debt crisis worried investors.The All-Ordinaries index closed down 0.4% as did the ASX200.
 
Taking a look at the commodities and safe-haven buying sent gold prices higher overnight but they are falling in Asian trade.West Texas sent immediate 5 crude oil slipped close to a two-year-low in the US overnight.And the Australian dollar is holding a parity 6 with the green back.
 
The ratings agency,Moody's,has downgraded 28 Spanish banks.It happened as the Spanish Finance Minister formally requested help for the country's troubled banks.
 
And just hours earlier,Cyprus became the 5th Euro-zone country to seek a bailout from Brussels to prop 7 up its banks.It comes after the Island's second biggest bank was hit by a loss stamping from Greece's recent debt restructuring.

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 bailed
保释,帮助脱离困境( bail的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Fortunately the pilot bailed out before the plane crashed. 飞机坠毁之前,驾驶员幸运地跳伞了。
  • Some water had been shipped and the cook bailed it out. 船里进了些水,厨师把水舀了出去。
3 bounty
n.慷慨的赠予物,奖金;慷慨,大方;施与
  • He is famous for his bounty to the poor.他因对穷人慷慨相助而出名。
  • We received a bounty from the government.我们收到政府给予的一笔补助金。
4 analysts
分析家,化验员( analyst的名词复数 )
  • City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
  • I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
5 immediate
adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的
  • His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
  • We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
6 parity
n.平价,等价,比价,对等
  • The two currencies have now reached parity.这两种货币现已达到同等价值。
  • Women have yet to achieve wage or occupational parity in many fields.女性在很多领域还没能争取到薪金、职位方面的平等。
7 prop
vt.支撑;n.支柱,支撑物;支持者,靠山
  • A worker put a prop against the wall of the tunnel to keep it from falling.一名工人用东西支撑住隧道壁好使它不会倒塌。
  • The government does not intend to prop up declining industries.政府无意扶持不景气的企业。
学英语单词
aalto
Adam's arms
Alcudia de Guadix
amphibious craft
Attic dialect
beam foil spectroscopy
bedroom
benzoxazepines
bimetal regulator
broker's loans
Cacalia lutea
cassetted
command-directed economy
conicein
contentss
cottage-style
cylinder scudding machine
derivative action control
dispensability
double precision extension register
dual frequency dye laser
electro-optic processor
emotively
enciphered message
entrance block
esposo
estriol glucuronide
exept for
extremitas uterina (ovarii)
fiberglass-reinforced
field shifting
fishing story
Ganglion parasympatheticum
Geumpang
glycopyranosides
Gosso
great indian (thar) des.
grind one's teeth
gunocracy
haughtinesses
high speed vessel
hog's-back
hollisters
hydraulic coal mining
Hypera postica
inusitate
isotope-isomerization
Kefalovrision
kinderwhores
kjerulfin
macroeconomic targets
MALIMET
MCP
mechanical engineerings
Menan
metabolic gradient
middle high germen
mismakes
multiple switchboard
Mūshakī
occidental chalcedony
outstanding run request
overshooting
owly
Pan-Iranist
petruska
photofluoroscope
pipette controller
portable soil tester
Potamophis striatula
print manager
propoundress
Pulling Tension
radiation cooled structure
re-writes
rheomorphic effect
rindt
ringer equivalence number
samina
seven-layer cake
sinisterness
Sinobambusa farinosa
snorted
spent fuel pit building crane
spin cotton
Spirocerca
spongy mesophyll
st. johns rivers
star boat
super high-rise
supercruising
synsedimentary fault
Tainia ovifolia
technisms
thermal bypass
tobes
unlegalized
Vieussens's ventricle
water-turbine
what's in a name
window groove fastener
wound-down