澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2012-11-11

 Now time for the business news.

 

 

And when the markets in Europe closed a couple of hours ago, London's FTSE 100 was down. So was the Dax. The Euro was up. In the US, trading comes to a close shortly and the Dow Jones in down, while the S&P 500 is up.

 

 

And the Australian dollar is worth nearly 104 US cents this morning. It'll also buy you 65 British pence and 127 New Zealand.

 

 

The internatioanl airline group has warned that its Spanish carrier Iberia is in a fight for survival. It's unveiled its restructuring plan to cut 4,500 jobs. IAG owns British Airways¹ and Iberia. It announced a 25% fall in third-quarter operating profit, due to rising fuel costs and poor performance from Iberia. The Group now plans to downsize Iberia's fleet by 25 aircraft and slash² salaries as the Spanish carrier. 

 

 

Delegates of Chiese Communist Party's National Congress have been told the repercussions³ of the global financial crisis could linger for years. Premier⁴ Wen Jiabao made the comment during a panel discussion. He says increasing people's income is one task that needs addressing in the next five years. Mr Wen also claimed China needs to push forward with reform and economic restructuring in a bid to avoid a unstable⁵, uncoordinated and imbalanced development.

1 AIRWAYS   

航空公司

参考例句：

• The giant jets that increasingly dominate the world's airways. 越来越称雄于世界航线的巨型喷气机。
• At one point the company bought from Nippon Airways a 727 jet. 有一次公司从日本航空公司买了一架727型喷气机。

2 slash   

vi.大幅度削减；vt.猛砍，尖锐抨击，大幅减少；n.猛砍，斜线，长切口，衣衩

参考例句：

• The shop plans to slash fur prices after Spring Festival.该店计划在春节之后把皮货降价。
• Don't slash your horse in that cruel way.不要那样残忍地鞭打你的马。

3 repercussions   

n.后果，反响( repercussion的名词复数 )；余波

参考例句：

• The collapse of the company will have repercussions for the whole industry. 这家公司的垮台将会给整个行业造成间接的负面影响。
• Human acts have repercussions far beyond the frontiers of the human world. 人类行为所产生的影响远远超出人类世界的范围。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 premier   

adj.首要的；n.总理，首相

参考例句：

• The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
• He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。

5 unstable   

adj.不稳定的，易变的

参考例句：

• This bookcase is too unstable to hold so many books.这书橱很不结实，装不了这么多书。
• The patient's condition was unstable.那患者的病情不稳定。