时间:2018-12-19 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2014年


英语课

 The Austrlian sharemarket has ended today's trade flat. But for the year, the market has gained 15 percent. The All Ord's at 5553. The ASX 200 index adding 703 points for 2013. The major drivers at the markets once again came from the big four banks and the major service companies. And that's been reflected in the top five best performers in the ASX 200 index. Law firm Slater&Gordon the stand out. JB Hi-Fi the best retail 1 stock. Conversely, every loser in the bottom five is involved in the mining sector 2. Gold miner Silver Lake the worst off. US stocks closed flat, but are poised 3 to record their best annual gain in 16 years. The Australian dollar recovered some ground against the greenback and is buying 89.19 US cents. 


 
Reserve Bank figures continue to show home loans leading lending growth and business borrowing going backwards 4. The banks figures show the value of outstanding home loans rose half a percent in November in seasonally 5 adjusted terms and 5.1 percent over the past year. Within residential 6 property, it was investors 7 driving the growth in lending. Housing investors borrowing is at a 32 months high. But business lending declined by a tenth of a percent and personnel loans were flat.

1 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。
2 sector
n.部门,部分;防御地段,防区;扇形
  • The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
  • The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。
3 poised
a.摆好姿势不动的
  • The hawk poised in mid-air ready to swoop. 老鹰在半空中盘旋,准备俯冲。
  • Tina was tense, her hand poised over the telephone. 蒂娜心情紧张,手悬在电话机上。
4 backwards
adv.往回地,向原处,倒,相反,前后倒置地
  • He turned on the light and began to pace backwards and forwards.他打开电灯并开始走来走去。
  • All the girls fell over backwards to get the party ready.姑娘们迫不及待地为聚会做准备。
5 seasonally
  • The price of vegetables fluctuates seasonally. 蔬菜的价格随季节变动。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • They moved seasonally among various vegetation types to feed on plants that were flourishing. 它们还随着季节的变化而在各种类型植物之间迁移,以便吃那些茂盛的植物。 来自辞典例句
6 residential
adj.提供住宿的;居住的;住宅的
  • The mayor inspected the residential section of the city.市长视察了该市的住宅区。
  • The residential blocks were integrated with the rest of the college.住宿区与学院其他部分结合在了一起。
7 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
学英语单词
a good bet
a.f.d.
Acetalgin
adverse judgement
Agadir Melloul
articulation of elbow
assembly pulley
associated space
Bachelor of Laws
be bad company
become extinct
blaest
body effect diode amplifier
Bourgignot
broner
carbide tipped reamer
carpogenic
cash account method of cash budget
cause elimination
centre-of-pressure travel
cerulescent
climbing irons
corkier
cross-track
cutleaf coneflower
dischevel
discovers
double beam densitometer
external trigger input
field beans
floccillation
Form-figure
glomus nigrum
gone to waste
haploid(haplotype)
hawke bay
heat and vent system
hemogallol
homeness
homocerebrin
homoresistant
hotel appointments
in-house
information transfer experiments
intermatic
international council of ballroom dancing (icbd)
inverted receiver
jus fruendi aut frucus
kirk session
legal force
local population sample
low water period
macaroni-and-cheese
marine vertical seismic profiling
master's mate
minimax sequential decision function
modified jelly-roll process
mount a ladder
multitemporal image
neuroelectric
non-viability
nonconifer
nondecreasings
npm
nuclear strategy
operating system component
orthophyric texture
output end mirror
paradoxists
precausation
primary database
prostrators
punched card processing equipment
punish the bottle
qutayba
renewable energy resources
reoffending
Right up your street
Roca Partida, Pta.
sanaa (sana)
slope ramp
solubilizes
Streptococcus saprophyticus
subspiracular lobe
summitt
ta-da
taiya
teeth zone
telemetered medium environment buoy
the better part of
the hokey-pokey
time of useful consciousness (tuc)
time-pressed
uniaos
unsyringed
upskier
wachtmeisters
waste liquid
wet lay-up technique
width of transition steepness
wild pumpkin
winnfield