VOA标准英语2013--Washington Week: Focus on Economic, Fiscal Matters
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2013年(四月)
Washington Week: Focus on Economic, Fiscal 1 Matters
President Obama wants to shrink the deficit 2 and promote economic growth.
“For years, an argument in Washington has raged between reducing our deficits 3 at all costs, and making the investments we need to grow the economy. My budget puts that argument to rest. Because we do not have to choose between these goals - we can do both.”
Obama says his budget will curb 4 spending and cut corporate 5 tax breaks - while boosting funding for infrastructure 6 and education.
Republicans have already rejected the proposal. House Speaker John Boehner says the president’s budget “never balances.” Former Republican Senator Sam Brownback, now governor of the state of Kansas, says the private sector 7 holds the key to better economic and fiscal health.
“Our Republican message is a belief in the power of people rather than the control of government. This unleashes 8 the creativity of entrepreneurs and the strength of hope and dreams.”
The budget battle comes one month after the start of automatic federal spending cuts, known as the sequester 9, that may have contributed to a weakening labor 10 market. The U.S. economy created fewer than 100,000 jobs last month. White House economist 11 Alan Krueger predicts a tough road ahead.
“We have heard from some companies that the sequester is affecting their hiring decisions. Obviously, government spending has been cut as a result of the sequester. So going forward that is going to be a weight on the economy.”
Republicans accuse the White House of overstating the sequester’s impact.
The U.S. deficit is projected at $900 billion this year, down slightly from previous years. In Congress, the Republican-controlled House and the Democrat-controlled Senate have passed competing budget bills, neither of which is likely to be adopted by the other chamber 12.
Absent bipartisan compromise, a so-called "grand bargain," the sequester will remain in effect and the deficit will stay at levels considered unsustainable by most economists 13.
- The increase of taxation is an important fiscal policy.增税是一项重要的财政政策。
- The government has two basic strategies of fiscal policy available.政府有两个可行的财政政策基本战略。
- The directors have reported a deficit of 2.5 million dollars.董事们报告赤字为250万美元。
- We have a great deficit this year.我们今年有很大亏损。
- The Ministry of Finance consistently overestimated its budget deficits. 财政部一贯高估预算赤字。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Many of the world's farmers are also incurring economic deficits. 世界上许多农民还在遭受经济上的亏损。 来自辞典例句
- I could not curb my anger.我按捺不住我的愤怒。
- You must curb your daughter when you are in church.你在教堂时必须管住你的女儿。
- This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
- His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。
- We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
- We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。
- The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
- The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。
- These findings qualify the common view that economic growth unleashes myriad discontents. 这些发现，纠正了一个普遍观点，即经济发展使人们尽情宣泄不满。 来自互联网
- This caster unleashes a storm of electric discharge on the enemy. 法师向敌人释放出一片电火花的风暴。 来自互联网
- Everything he owned was sequestered.他的所有财产都被扣押了。
- This jury is expected to be sequestered for at least two months.预计这个陪审团将至少被隔离两个月。
- We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
- He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。
- He cast a professional economist's eyes on the problem.他以经济学行家的眼光审视这个问题。
- He's an economist who thinks he knows all the answers.他是个经济学家，自以为什么都懂。
- For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说，牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
- The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。
- The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
- Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》