时间:2018-12-19 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2013年


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 French President Francios Hollande is talking about he'll push ahead with plans to raise the tax rate on the rich. He wants to lift the rate to 75 per cent.


 
A court scuttled 1 the plan last month when it ruled the measure was unconstitutional. Mr Hollande says the legislation will be reworded and submitted again. He's also promised to take all efforts to cut unemployment which topped three million last year.
 
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron is urging his fellow G-8 leaders to take bold steps to help boost global economic growth in 2013. UK has begun its year-long presidency 2 of the G-8 group of nations.
 
Mr Cameron says his priorities will be to extend free trade, tackle tax evasion 3 and combat government corruption 4. Britain will host the annual G-8 leaders' summit in Northern Ireland in June.
 
To the markets now and this is how the world financial markets finished in 2012. Of course, the markets remain closed for the New Year's holiday today.
 
But we have a look at commodity prices. West Texas Crude is trading at 92 US dollars a barrrel. Tapis Crude is trading at 116 US dollars a barrel. And gold is worth 1675 US dollars an ounce.
 
The Australian dollar is buying 104 US cents, 79 Euro cents and 64 pence sterling 5.

1 scuttled
v.使船沉没( scuttle的过去式和过去分词 );快跑,急走
  • She scuttled off when she heard the sound of his voice. 听到他的说话声,她赶紧跑开了。
  • The thief scuttled off when he saw the policeman. 小偷看见警察来了便急忙跑掉。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 presidency
n.总统(校长,总经理)的职位(任期)
  • Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
  • Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。
3 evasion
n.逃避,偷漏(税)
  • The movie star is in prison for tax evasion.那位影星因为逃税而坐牢。
  • The act was passed as a safeguard against tax evasion.这项法案旨在防止逃税行为。
4 corruption
n.腐败,堕落,贪污
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
5 sterling
adj.英币的(纯粹的,货真价实的);n.英国货币(英镑)
  • Could you tell me the current rate for sterling, please?能否请您告诉我现行英国货币的兑换率?
  • Sterling has recently been strong,which will help to abate inflationary pressures.英国货币最近非常坚挺,这有助于减轻通胀压力。
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acquavivas
administered price theory
adsl transceiver unit-remote terminal end
air stability
Al Qubab
angleton
B-spline curve
banus
be busy
behighting
bench sander
beneteau
birdhouse
calamitoid
carpintero
chadacrysts
chester white swine
cold erythema
computer off-line control system
Crout method
cuprane
Dame Daphne du Maurier
decompactify
decrimping
degresses
deparaffinating
deshelled shrimp
direct-execution system
discrimination threshold
disk read
double-transit oscillator
drift hoop
ecnomus laminata
escapologist
escrowing
extines
extractor bottom hole choke
flushmounted pressure transducer
fried marinade
future exchange contract
gill artery
Grecise, grecised
H strand
Heptazone
hermetically sealed electromagnetic relay
horizontally polarized antenna
intermetatarseum
International Telecommunication Satellite Organization
Juniperus chengii
Kinsele
La Jolla Indian Reservation
lag window spectral estimator
Laser cutting for SMT stensil
leiariuss
letter form
logarithmic wind shear law
lophiotoma acuta
Mayfest
mcchord
Meteorological Office
MGU (motor governor unit)
mimectatina murakamii
montenance
motorized wheelchair
multiplelevel exit structure
myriapod
nation railroad man
neff
newshound
Opienge
paganus
pop-metal
radio directive device
reculed
reducing-balance method (of depreciation)
rheumatism root
roehrs
roentgenite (rontgenite- (ce))
rotary pulverizer
sax-horn
secularity
serving pantries
short-time overload capacity
sialia
sine wave oscillator
single lung transplantation
sitingup
sleeknesses
soil application
sonechka
stereostroboscope
switch position
tabnabs
telepolygraph
tylosis linguae
Uvel'ka
vacuum-clean
viscous-perfectly plastic body
waterkeepers
wedge-shaped hill
where are the toilets
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