澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2014-09-28

 The Australian share market has closed at a six-month low after duties on Wall Street sparked a sharp sell-down. By the close, the All Ordinaries Index was down 1.2% or 66 points. The ASX 200 Index fell 1.3%. 

 

Stocks were low across the boards. Iron ore miners led the declines after another fall in the ore's price overnight. The banks took a hit. CBA lost 2%. The exception today were gold mining stocks. 

 

Across the region, Japan's Nikkei fell 0.9%. And the Australian Dollar is falling steeply against the greenback ahead of the European session, right now at 87.5 US cents. 

 

Nauru's finance minister says the country is out of money and services will soon start shutting down. Nauru has refused to pay a debt to a US-based fund manager Firebird which has now blowned to 13 million dollars. The government's bank accounts have been frozen as a result. Nauru is seeking to urgently free up the funds. The country's finance minister told the New South Wales Supreme¹ Court that the island will shortly run out of cash, meaning it won't be able to transport health, legal and other contractors² to the detention³ center and that will impact refugees. The trial surrounding the fund starts on Monday.

1 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

2 contractors   

n.（建筑、监造中的）承包人( contractor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• We got estimates from three different contractors before accepting the lowest. 我们得到3个承包商的报价后，接受了最低的报价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Contractors winning construction jobs had to kick back 2 per cent of the contract price to the mafia. 赢得建筑工作的承包商得抽出合同价格的百分之二的回扣给黑手党。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 detention   

n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下

参考例句：

• He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
• He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。