时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:历年考研英语阅读理解


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[00:08.09]When it comes to the slowing economy,
[00:10.41]Ellen Spero isn't biting her nails just yet.
[00:14.13]But the 47-year-old manicurist isn't cutting,
[00:17.67]filing or polishing as many nails as she'd like to, either.
[00:21.92]Most of her clients spend $12 to $50 weekly,
[00:26.72]but last month two longtime customers
[00:29.38]suddenly stopped showing up.
[00:31.91]Spero blames the softening 1 economy.
[00:34.94]"I'm a good economic indicator," she says.
[00:37.78]"I provide a service that people can do without
[00:40.59]when they're concerned about saving some dollars."
[00:43.68]So Spero is downscaling,
[00:46.90]shopping at middle-brow Dillard's department store
[00:49.50]near her suburban 2 Cleveland home,
[00:51.81]instead of Neiman Marcus.
[00:53.93]"I don't know if other clients are going to
[00:56.07]abandon me, too," she says.
[00:58.99]Even before Alan Greenspan's admission
[01:01.00]that America's red-hot economy is cooling,
[01:04.45]lots of working folks had already seen
[01:06.72]signs of the slowdown themselves.
[01:09.44]From car dealerships to Gap outlets,
[01:12.27]sales have been lagging for months
[01:14.29]as shoppers temper their spending.
[01:16.91]For retailers,
[01:17.87]who last year took in 24 percent of their revenue
[01:21.30]between Thanksgiving and Christmas,
[01:23.84]the cautious approach is coming at a crucial time.
[01:27.97]Already, experts say, holiday sales are off 7 percent
[01:32.19]from last year's pace.
[01:33.93]But don't sound any alarms just yet.
[01:36.83]Consumers seem only mildly concerned, not panicked,
[01:41.27]and many say they remain optimistic
[01:43.47]about the economy's long-term prospects,
[01:46.48]even as they do some modest belt-tightening.
[01:50.31]Consumers say they're not in despair because,
[01:53.06]despite the dreadful headlines,
[01:55.07]their own fortunes still feel pretty good.
[01:58.85]Home prices are holding steady in most regions.
[02:02.33]In Manhattan,
[02:03.54]"there's a new gold rush happening
[02:05.37]in the $4 million to $10 million range,
[02:08.47]predominantly fed by Wall Street bonuses,"
[02:11.12]says broker 3 Barbara Corcoran.
[02:13.98]In San Francisco,
[02:15.49]prices are still rising even
[02:17.21]as frenzied 4 overbidding quiets.
[02:20.03]"Instead of 20 to 30 offers,
[02:22.36]now maybe you only get two or three," says John Tealdi,
[02:26.70]a Bay Area real-estate broker.
[02:28.92]And most folks still feel pretty comfortable
[02:31.63]about their ability to find and keep a job.
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[02:35.59]Many folks see silver linings 5 to this slowdown.
[02:39.23]Potential home buyers would cheer
[02:41.35]for lower interest rates.
[02:43.03]Employers wouldn't mind a little fewer bubbles
[02:45.67]in the job market.
[02:47.79]Many consumers seem to have been influenced
[02:50.20]by stock-market swings,
[02:52.11]which investors 6 now view
[02:53.34]as a necessary ingredient to a sustained boom.
[02:57.27]Diners might see an upside, too.
[03:00.01]Getting a table at Manhattan's hot
[03:01.83]new Alain Ducasse restaurant used to be impossible.
[03:06.16]Not anymore. For that, Greenspan & Co.
[03:10.02]may still be worth toasting.


1 softening
变软,软化
  • Her eyes, softening, caressed his face. 她的眼光变得很温柔了。它们不住地爱抚他的脸。 来自汉英文学 - 家(1-26) - 家(1-26)
  • He might think my brain was softening or something of the kind. 他也许会觉得我婆婆妈妈的,已经成了个软心肠的人了。
2 suburban
adj.城郊的,在郊区的
  • Suburban shopping centers were springing up all over America. 效区的商业中心在美国如雨后春笋般地兴起。
  • There's a lot of good things about suburban living.郊区生活是有许多优点。
3 broker
n.中间人,经纪人;v.作为中间人来安排
  • He baited the broker by promises of higher commissions.他答应给更高的佣金来引诱那位经纪人。
  • I'm a real estate broker.我是不动产经纪人。
4 frenzied
a.激怒的;疯狂的
  • Will this push him too far and lead to a frenzied attack? 这会不会逼他太甚,导致他进行疯狂的进攻?
  • Two teenagers carried out a frenzied attack on a local shopkeeper. 两名十几岁的少年对当地的一个店主进行了疯狂的袭击。
5 linings
n.衬里( lining的名词复数 );里子;衬料;组织
  • a pair of leather gloves with fur linings 一双毛皮衬里的皮手套
  • Many of the garments have the customers' name tags sewn into the linings. 这些衣服有很多内衬上缝有顾客的姓名签。 来自辞典例句
6 investors
n.投资者,出资者( investor的名词复数 )
  • a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
  • a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
学英语单词
.ttf files
abreauvoir
affix a seal
arborine
autopilot engage and trim indicator
bad copy
battery terminal
block macromolecule
body hoop
bottom gradient electrode system
bulb nose
c-legs
calcaneocuboid articulation
carrier solvent
chinny reckon
Co-ferol
Cohengua, R.
control register instruction
core maximum heat flux (density)
Cortadren
cotton trousers
coupled valve
cursarary
differential earnings from land
diluent modifier
double out
drop-in commercial
ecological climatology
El Orégano
expense not allocated
fermented tea
fertility of soil
frustillatim
fuel refuse-derived
graviditas tuboabdominalis
heading (hdg)
heating systems
hierarchy model
His bark is worse than his bite.
hoglike
hold-over
I/O mode
Ilheus encephalitis
indian chocolates
invoicings
Johnson, Jack
Karvezide
keep one's eye on
khairulins
kick starter spring
krasorskii's method
Kronig's method
lane cake
leptospira tarassovi
lifeline pistol
literary youth
lulita
mean deviations
mediamax
microwave power module
nested sink
noninterchangeable
NSOC
Nupasal
oleostrut
on line service provider
order of reactor
patio doors
perecs
polyphase converter
pound the pavement
proceeding with
program clarity
proper energy
rate of strain tensor
reducing acid radical
regional unconformity
remote operated
rheostatic type automatic power factor regulator
Rosenmmuller's gland
Rzhevsky
sanitary napkin
sea damage for seller's account
self-balancing type
sepr.
servo
set a clock
simple proposition
slicklines
snip-snap
social density
sphero-cylindrical lenticular
St Anthony
staphyloma
telecommunication networks
territorial division of labor
Themistian
turn volume
water trumpet
Wedge Mountain
zizanin
Zyryanskoye