英语听力：澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2013-10-13

 The local share market has seen a second, second biggest rise all year with more than 90 per cent of the ASX 200 making gains. And that's all on hopes that the breakthrough in the deadlock¹ in Washington over raising American debt ceiling as negotiations² continue between the Republicans and Democrats³, but Mike Micarzy says the optimism may not last.

 

“It may be very short-lived. One of the concerns here is that the current proporsal has been put out publicly to push the debt ceiling back to Nov. 22. It's only a very short-term solution, but the market will be comforted by the the facts the talks have begun in giving the collected view that to fall on debt would be an insane position for the US to take, ah...since market's quite confident there will be a resolution.”

 

Taking a look at the figures.

 

And the All Ords and the ASX 200 finished up around 1.6 per cent. Taking a look across the region and it also gains across there. The Nikkei up by 1.2 per cent. That follow gains on Wall Street overnight. The Dow jumped 2.2 per cent. The S&P 500 added two per cent. And the volatility⁴ index in Chicago which tracks the strees levels of investors⁵ plunged⁶ back to levels not seen before the partial government shut down in the US.

 

Taking a look at commodities and overnight the spot gold price dropped sharply and remains⁷ below 1,300 US dollars an ounce.

 

And the Australian dollar's been picking up against most of the major currencies now and it's now cruising up towards 95 US cents.

1 deadlock   

n.僵局，僵持

参考例句：

• The negotiations reached a deadlock after two hours.两小时后，谈判陷入了僵局。
• The employers and strikers are at a deadlock over the wage.雇主和罢工者在工资问题上相持不下。

2 negotiations   

协商( negotiation的名词复数 )； 谈判； 完成（难事）； 通过

参考例句：

• negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
• Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。

3 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 volatility   

n.挥发性，挥发度，轻快，（性格）反复无常

参考例句：

• That was one reason why volatility was so low last year.这也是去年波动性如此低的原因之一。
• Yet because volatility remained low for so long,disaster myopia prevailed.然而，由于相当长的时间里波动性小，灾难短视就获胜了。

5 investors   

n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• 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

6 plunged   

v.颠簸( plunge的过去式和过去分词 )；暴跌；骤降；突降

参考例句：

• The train derailed and plunged into the river. 火车脱轨栽进了河里。
• She lost her balance and plunged 100 feet to her death. 她没有站稳，从100英尺的高处跌下摔死了。

7 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。