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
access
access door
Advanced Packaging Tool
apotemnophobia
Asterorotalia
astronomical distance
Bayesian network
beat the hog
bheur
bipinnatum
Bourg-Dun
Canton crepe
carpet pads
chevelured
Cimicifuga racemosa
circular negotiation form credit
civicminded
conventional warhead
counter reset(ting)
counter selection
Court Christian
CREF
dentis cavum
desgergation
diagnostic routing equipment
draw-bar cradle
eklof
EOF gap (end-of-file gap)
exit stage left
explicating
fareweller
fertile peat pot
fkit quality
fourth-placer
furbelowed
gender-blindness
gunz
Hilton's law
hurlwinds
hydraulic mean radius
Hφrup
icterogenic spirochetosis
isodense
isomorphies
labor demand
Lena River
lessenings
load changer
loam bricks
lommel
Lophospira
main heat exchanger
mean low water of ordinary spring tide
Mentba canadensis
micro positioner
musculus longitudinalis superior linguae
mycobacterium cheloni
natural disaster
nilgiri
nucleotidic
olympic motto
Padingbüttel
paleoanthropologic
Patnanongan I.
perpetuation of evidence
personal-injury
pichiciego
pilot spool
principle of allocation
procedure data area
prompt test
punch compressed file
quality control operation
red water bloom
releasing value
research subject
Rohtāsgarh
S-lay wire rope
S12
Second Advent
second consonant shift
sensorchips
serial-parallel a/d converter
simple twist
spermosphere
Steenkerke
superwhite
tangolike
task address
The Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China
the whole year round
Theligonum macranthum
thread bar rolling mill
Torriglia
Tricarpelema
turnover on stock exchange
unsafe sex
upper quartile
vitis henrynan hemsl.
waterpower
weak primary
Y-port valve