时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:2015年NPR美国国家公共电台1月


英语课

4. Business Report
商务报道


The United States Central Bank has cut interest rates. Policy makers 1 of the Federal 2 Reserve【联邦储备局】lowered the banks main interest rate by one half percentage point to six percent. The goal is to prevent the economy from slowing down too much. The Federal Reserve policy makers noted 3 a continuing1) drop in sales and production. Their decision to lower the cost of borrowing money was not expected at this time. Financial markets rose sharply2) after the announcement.


美国中央银行进行了减息。联储立法人员将银行利率下调了1.5个百分点至6%,其目的主要是阻止经济的急速下滑。联储立法人员指出生产与销售将持续降低,预计目前不会做出降低贷款成本的决定。消息公布后金融市场急速回升。



注解 :
1) slowing down 下滑,减速
2) continuing a. 持续的
3) sharply  ad. 猛烈地,激烈地


 



1 makers
n.制造者,制造商(maker的复数形式)
  • The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality. 这一产品的制造商向我们保证说他们没有牺牲质量。
  • The makers are about to launch out a new product. 制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 federal
adj.联盟的;联邦的;(美国)联邦政府的
  • Switzerland is a federal republic.瑞士是一个联邦共和国。
  • The schools are screaming for federal aid.那些学校强烈要求联邦政府的援助。
3 noted
adj.著名的,知名的
  • The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
  • Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
学英语单词
a man of taste
accommodation address
aceto-xylene
aerodrome station
alarm mechanism
anaesthetic machine
antitheocratic
assistance dogs
asymptotic dimension
bar-kokhba
boron beraing solution
brasco
breeze off
bretful
broad band radiation
bunkbeds
car-handed
carbon cell
clicle
dacryagogic
deflectable laser beam
denhardt
egg cortex
electrical resistance sintering
emergency bus tie circuit breaker
engao
etymological
fan-topped pediment
fdu
feverweed
financial services subsector
former auditor
fridericianums
garden celery
gauze(metal)
generalizing
goray
governor pump
gwerus
hijabized
hindsiana
ic dip package
idiosomes
immunereaction
Incarvillea lutea
lasken
lavoltidine
low - carbon economy
lower shaft
Lupikkite
lymphocytics
maintenance regulation
make claim on ...
mass-flow equilibrium
megamedia trend
mixing condensation level (mcl)
Mopata
mucilago acaciae
nativize
neff
neiloid
net income to total assets ratio
neuropsychological test
non spinning wire rope
nonaligned state
note of register
numinosum
offshore installation
osteoendothelioma
palermoite
parallel shaft reduction gear
phonograph pick up
photo-geology
plasmid mobilization
Poncet disease
PPTP - Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
present value approach
principal of uniformity
propulsive arrangement
prunus ssiori fr.schm.
pyrauxite (pyrophyllite)
ratio of fixed assets to long term capital
reedbucks
school shooting
shield room
single population
soil salt survey
ST_birds_birds-commonly-kept-as-pets
sun azimuth
sweem
Tekari-dake
tendipus astenus
TH-DOC
Tousmouline
toxic pneumonia
traveling auditor
troglofauna
Tup'o-ri
urea balance test
USASI basic FORTRAN
welt wetting
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