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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 A significant downturn in the Fortunes of several Australian fashion brands,most even go to foreign hands.Billabong's 72% slide in half year profits,pumped a take over offer could form global priority 1 firm TPG but the offer was rejected.Pacific brands on the rebonds haven't yet build in kengi* double its losses from a year ago losing 362 million dollars.But the company blames the tough retailing 2 environment.Billabong is shedding staffing,stores and part of its Nixson brand.


 
Fresh produce farmers are bracing 3 from a another blow as Indonesia clamps 4 down on Australia food exports.Indonesia became a free-trade parter with Australia early this year,but next month will restrict fresh produce from entry most of its main exports.The claims concerns the quantity and the illegal imports is driving the introduction of straight regulations.Australian fruit and vegetables experts say it's already taking on a toll 5 profits.
 
 
The boss of ANZ bank has sought to defend this month,job cuts and last week's interest rate rise.Chief executive,Mike Smith says the global financial turmoil 6 made the move necessary.The banks says in order to make the profit come in at 1.7 billion dollars for the half year.
 
 
A look at the latest numbers from the markets.
 
 
In the US,the Dow is up 46 points.In Asia,stocks finished up,the NIKKEI 146 higher.And back home,the all-ordes finished the week 16 points higher.

1 priority
n.优先处理的事,居先,优先(权)
  • The development of the national economy is a top priority.发展国民经济是应予以最优先考虑的事。
  • Things should be taken up in order of priority.办事应有个先后次序。
2 retailing
n.零售业v.零售(retail的现在分词)
  • career opportunities in retailing 零售业的职业机会
  • He is fond of retailing the news. 他喜欢传播消息。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 bracing
adj.令人振奋的
  • The country is bracing itself for the threatened enemy invasion. 这个国家正准备奋起抵抗敌人的入侵威胁。
  • The atmosphere in the new government was bracing. 新政府的气氛是令人振奋的。
4 clamps
夹具( clamp的名词复数 ); 夹子; 夹钳; 车轮锁
  • Torsional microslip at the clamps results in spurious torques which act like pivot friction torques. 夹紧处扭杆的微小滑移会产生干扰力矩,它的作用和轴颈的摩擦力矩一样。
  • I'll need some lap pads,forceps, metzenbaums and satinsky clamps. 我需要一些包垫,镊子,以及夹钳。
5 toll
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
6 turmoil
n.骚乱,混乱,动乱
  • His mind was in such a turmoil that he couldn't get to sleep.内心的纷扰使他无法入睡。
  • The robbery put the village in a turmoil.抢劫使全村陷入混乱。
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5'-Deoxyadenosyl-B12
acid fast red
Aegerita
albumin milk
almeida pilosa
amoralists
amphoteric ion-exchangeresin
anti-impact gear
batouti
blast furnace smelting
bunss
cabinetmaker
cauliflora
CD Video
Churumuco
COBOL transaction program
collapsible keel block
corecipients
dihydropyrimidinase
direct exporttrade
draw-
drip-drying
escrowing
esterifiable
Ethydan
ethyl cyanamide
filtered signal
fire bricks
flamdoodle
Florence crystals
foam solution
folded potential
forestry production statistics
fully arisen sea
general fixed assets group of accounts
genus Hamamelis
genus irenas
Grecian nose
groaners
Guengant
Haskins
hcb
ill-humo(u)redly
in conjunction with
input/output stream control
inseminating catheter
insured risk
joint buying office
Kentish fire
lande's g factor
Lincolnshire
look-at-me signal
magon
managed economies
merphenyl
metropolitan broadband network
mobile control room
Muncimir
national switching network
network for arc welding
non-metered tap
not the done thing
nuclei cochleares
Oetinghausen
pastures newer pastures
Pelargonium limoneum
pen lid
penetration method
permeably
Ping Pong buffer
powerful radio-frequency cable
pump for sludge tank
punctuation space
Quinalspan
redalder
reduced flange
regulating error
requirement for tax exemption
self-skill
shape straighten
shelf front
ST_including-and-excluding_covering-and-adding-layers
suele
taper-reamer
taste acuity
technico-
telecommunication route
throw up one's hat
transiliac
travel card
triatic
uncountry
variation in testing temperature
vibroplatform
Villaputzu
Virtual File Allocation Table
vision distance
well-illuminated
what are we waiting for
yester-morrows
z transform inverse