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
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accomateria
accompanying sound trap
accordant
acting pitch diameter
adult movie
aglandular
antsiest
ascending tracts
bluebelt
bootsafe
braille printing
brainstormers
Campo Tencia
carbon-radio theory
Cecil B De Mille
cell-phones
cellular logic operation
channel transition probability
cork insulated hold
corona resistance
counter-current extraction
damping control
Derezovatoye
diamond glass cutter
dinopenton
draba ladyginii royle
echoviral
emulsion breaking
errand-boys
etersalate
external cremaster
eyeshields
face roof collapse with cavity
Firewire
first order predicate calculus
fume fever
gathering roll
geobotanical control
go by the code name
gold-finer
goods afloat
griqualandite
have on sale
heavy magnesium subcarbonate
heavy plate straightener
hexofuranoses
hierarchy of operating stack
high-density multi-track recording
iserine
jarratts
kangwana
Kazachinskoye
Lueki
major diameter relief
me-generations
mercury complex
metalized film
minervite
monotropas
neoarctic faunistic region
nitrate culture-medium
nonfemale
occipitothalamic
overhanging carrier
pelee-type eruption
pigeon-hearted
pin her ears back
placentule
plasmaphaeretic
plate reader
plug compatible memory
polychlorobiphenyl
prosopoanoschisis
proxyship
pterygiums
rappas
real-valued
reflection unit
rodio-dehottay process
Roman Jakobson
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seiriasis
small shop run by husband and wife
Somaj
sonnet sequence
standard specifications
straightening roll
surety obligation
sustained current
swal
tall one
threshold detection
to french
toothed washer
tracing needle
tukal
variable end-point problem
vicente blasco ibanez
wet gate printer
wicker park
Yagi array