1. Oil prices are down for a second day, more than four dollars lower on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Oil is trading at less than 135 dollars a barrel. Yesterday prices fell nearly six and a half dollars in the biggest one-day drop in dollar te

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(109) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2008年(七)月

DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC)I'm Doug Johnson. This week, we play songs from two new albums from music greats Elton John and Leon Russell and Elvis Costello. We also answer a question about the faces found o

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年VOA慢速英语(十一)月

A: Hello! I need to make a copy of something at once. B: There's a copy machine on the first floor in our computer lab, sir. A: Fantastic! Is there a charge? B: It's ten cents a copy, sir. A: Well, I'm only making one copy, so I guess I can afford it

发表于:2019-01-15 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 英语情景对话-旅馆

A: Hi, can you tell me where I could make a copy of a document right now? B: Sir, you can come downstairs right now to the computer lab. A: That's great. I don't suppose the copy machine is free for guests? B: Sir, each copy is ten cents or one dime,

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How would you like to pay, Mr White? 您想用什么方法付款,怀特先生? With U.S. dollar traveller's cheques, I think. 我想用美元旅行支票。 And how will you be paying, please? 请问您打算用什么方法付款。 By visa. Is t

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Woodside Petroleum's attempts to buy back nearly 10% of its shares from energy giant Shell has failed. At a general meeting in Perth today 72% of votes cast by shareholders went favor of the proposal and 28% were against. The resolution needed 75% su

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 澳洲ABC新闻快递2014年

unit 486 电汇兑现 dialogue 英语情景对话 A:I've got a telegraphic order. Will you cash it? A:我有张电汇单,能帮我兑现吗? B:Have you got any identification (ID) with you? B:你带身份证件了吗? A:Yes. Here is my passport

发表于:2019-01-21 / 阅读(255) / 评论(0) 分类 高频英语口语对话

英语学习笔记: at sixes and sevens 乱七八糟,七零八落的 a nine days wonder 昙花一现的人或者物 dress up to the nines 穿好看的衣服 sixty-four dollar question is... 最困难的问题是。。。 They couldn't come to an

发表于:2019-01-24 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 早安英文

Banks' dodgy assets; Taking out the trash;The lingering toxicity of banks' balance-sheets; 银行的不良资产;清理垃圾;银行资产负债表的毒性挥散不去; Waste disposal is still a big part of post-crisis banking. A large amount

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人财经系列

arbitrage 套戥;套汇;套利 arbitrageur 套戥者;套汇者 arbitrary amount 临时款项 arrangement 措施;安排;协定 arrears 欠款 arrears of pay 欠付薪酬 arrears of revenue 逾期

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 财会英语

BEIJING, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The central parity rate of yuan, the Chinese currency, Tuesday gained 2 points to 6.5881 against the U.S. dollar, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading(外汇交易) System. China's central bank announced in

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Let's talk about this more now with Mr. Jia Xiudong, Senior Research Fellow from the China Institute of International Studies. Q1: Let's start with the multi-billion-U.S.-dollar currency swap pact between China and Chile. How will this pact benefit b

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Santos confirmed on Tuesday it had rejected a five-million-dollar offer from Sao Paulo for Brazil international midfielder Paulo Henrique Ganso. Santos said in a statement on its Twitter account that it had receive

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

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发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 英文语法词汇

The firefight continues in southern California where crews are now battling three different blazes. One fire doubled in size has now burnt over 10,000 acres. Crews are getting the upper handle on the blaze... when evacuation order has been partially

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(131) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2008年(十)月

1.地点题 【试题特点】 地点题提问的是对话发生的地点,常用的提问方式有: Where does the conversation most probably take place? Where does this conversation most likely occur? Where are the two speakers? 【答题技巧】

发表于:2019-02-12 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

After posting solid gains yesterday, the share market today lost momentum and closed flat. The All Ords and the ASX 200 just giving back a few points.By the close, the falls today were led by bank and retail sectors. Gains in the resource sectors, th

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 澳洲ABC新闻快递2014年

Now let's get more business and finance news, in particular the markets see how they finished the trading week. And in Europe, we could see a mostly down, a quite oversee in Germany with the Dax. The FTSE finished down 76 points. Across the Atlantic,

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 澳洲ABC新闻快递2014年

And when the markets in Europe closed a couple of hours ago, London's FTSE 100 was up. The Dax and Euro stocks were down. In the US, trading comes to a close shortly and the Dow Jones is slightly up, while the Nasdaq is down. And the Australian dolla

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 澳洲ABC新闻快递2013年

台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是: Research in social psychology suggests that we're quick to form lasting impressions of others based on their behaviors. 社会心理学的研究指出,我们很快就能依据他人的行为产生

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