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
aaker
achtenberg
alkanet
Almunge
altitude power factor
an(a)erobic respiration
aplanatic points
Arethusa bulbosa
arm to
at the word of command
basket hoisting mechanism
blue brick
brainpan
Carolina bean
castgloss
catweazle
characteristic delay time
chinese silk plants
circular arc milling machines
clearing membership
coachees
colloidal agglomerate
deer fly,deerfly
deflection characteristic
design rules checking
diffusion flame burner
dutchiest
earthy breccia
edit pattern operator
elbow balance
fascs
Follett
forward euler method
French, Sir John Denton Pinkstone
frisons
Gorontalo, Tk.
hamidullah
hay rack
homotharicrine
horserider
ideal velocity
index of characteristic
infrared multiphoton absorption spectrum
interior type
jaculator
Kirchhoff's diffraction
koco
laminated pole
licensing to administer import restriction
lift control
limit of flammability
local signal
make way
malodorously
manorville
Mansholt Plan
melissaeus
minion
mobility gap
Mogok
mouth-organ
munitioner
nehep
nongremial
Osirite
oxine copper
patrol telephone
perineural fibroblastoma
phosphorous acid
plasma arc weld
precedence rule
product improvement
prompt date
prostateria
pseudopolydora reticulata
pulverulent material
regulation of highway transport industry
renewed fault
retail unit
rosehips
Ruifang Township
scalariform thickening
schoenflies symbols
Seljestadjuvet
seyni
simplot
sither
sky parking
slow nova
socialization agency
stand of sapling
standard potential transformer
tilting structure
tollgate
trevelez
tung-oil trees
turbulent blood flow
unstoic
validness
vibration pollution
water-proof motor
with might and main