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
6-phosphofructo-2-kinase
accident code
agency endorsement
air bubble apparatus
algorithmic processor description
All made fast!
anti-friction alloy
as we all know
atomic number 46s
azatadine maleate
bamboo ferns
bankbooks
bantung
bassem
Bohnābād
bomerang
bridge key
carbamide side cutter
cargo attendant
charge coupling
coarseness-fibred
confermed irrevocable letter of credit
cysteine sulfinic acid
deasphalted oil
DRSG
drug metabolites
drum handling machine
drupaceous
Dry-masonry
electrostatic copying
email thread
entry indicator
epicondylus medialis femoris
extra-period of detention
foundation stones
graphical interpretation
hand-powered
Hawea Flat
Hexamethyleneimines
house trailers
huff and puff method
hypoxathine
instantaneous spectrum
intrinsics
Irvine phosphorus process
ischemic paralysis Volkmann's paralysis
ish
janeth
kalialaskite porphyry
lame under the hat
lecithic
look through the fingers upon
Luce, Henry Robinson
mastre
measuring peg
Medochemie
metromaniac
multiple speech output system
naraingarh
national insurance
nephrogenic zone
no-feer
novac
Novoyur'yevo
overlond relief valve
p.e.d
paraphenetidine
patterned responses
pinus parryanas
polyvinylpyrrolidone
prolixnesses
pseudotechnical
radiochemical analyzer
radioimmunity assay
reclaimed copper
rip box
Semawe
seri
servo lever
session management
should have done
single line source
spray- painted
T3--neogenesis
talked dirty
tap of thread
theoretical plate
Tolkiens
trichloroacetyl chloride
twinkiling
unconvertdr lime
underhung crane
upper hand
useful capacity
Vatyl'ka
vexatory
went so far as
westwego
wing mirror
word-parallel and bit-parallel
zinc-coated steel