时间:2019-01-03 作者:英语课 分类:2017年VOA慢速英语(十一)月


英语课

 


It’s been a year since India’s government banned the use of high-value paper money. That decision is being heavily criticized by some individuals and groups.


Prime Minister Narendra Modi – who ordered the action in November 2016 – has repeatedly defended his decision. The move removed India’s 500 and 1,000 rupee notes from use.


Modi has said the ban was necessary to fight corruption 1 and target “black money.” Black money is a term used to describe undeclared wealth that is not taxed. He said the move was also intended to get rid of fake currency and reduce terror financing.


The ban affected 2 about 86 percent of the country’s currency. It led to huge cash shortages for nearly two months. Millions of people stood in long bank lines to get cash for their daily needs.


About 75 percent of India’s workforce 3 depends on the country’s cash economy for employment.


Some critics say the ban greatly harmed India’s economy at a time when it was experiencing healthy growth. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called the move “reckless.”


Singh recently spoke 4 out against the ban again, saying that “nowhere in the world has any democracy undertaken such a coercive move.” He said the measure was hurting small and medium businesses across the country.


The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy is a Mumbai-based think tank. It estimated that about 1.5 million jobs were lost in the first four months of 2017 following the currency ban.


But government officials recently declared the year-old policy a success and celebrated 5 the anniversary as “anti-black money day.”


Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Facebook the country’s dependence 6 on cash had fallen by nearly 3.89 trillion rupees. He also said the cash to Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, rate dropped from 12 to 9 percent over the past year.


The finance ministry 7 said the policy led to about 5.6 million new taxpayers 8 being added. And the Reserve Bank of India said new data showed that digital money transactions tripled.


But the opposition 9 Congress party held demonstrations 10 in major cities to protest what they believe is a failed policy. “It has ruined the lives of millions of hard-working Indians,” the party’s Vice 11 President Rahul Gandhi said on Twitter.


The policy also affects people in neighboring Nepal. There, thousands of migrant workers held old currency notes that could not be exchanged before the date to do so passed.


Nepalese officials are currently seeking help from India to provide a way to exchange the nearly 55 million in Indian currency notes held by its citizens.


I’m Bryan Lynn.


Words in This Story


intend – v. to plan or want to do (something): to have (something) in your mind as a purpose or goal?


rid – v. to cause (someone or something) to no longer have or be affected by (someone or something unwanted)?


fake – adj. not true or real


currency – n. ?the money that a country uses: a specific kind of money?


cash – n. ready money; paper money and coins


data – n. facts or information used usually to calculate, analyze 12, or plan something


digital – adj. using or characterized by computer technology?


reckless – adj. doing something dangerous and not caring about what might happen


coercive – adj. using force to persuade people to do things they are unwilling 13 to do


transaction – n. a deal involving the buying or selling of something



n.腐败,堕落,贪污
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
adj.不自然的,假装的
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
n.劳动大军,劳动力
  • A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture.劳动人口中一大部分受雇于农业。
  • A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
adj.有名的,声誉卓著的
  • He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
  • The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。
n.依靠,依赖;信任,信赖;隶属
  • Doctors keep trying to break her dependence of the drug.医生们尽力使她戒除毒瘾。
  • He was freed from financial dependence on his parents.他在经济上摆脱了对父母的依赖。
n.(政府的)部;牧师
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
纳税人,纳税的机构( taxpayer的名词复数 )
  • Finance for education comes from taxpayers. 教育经费来自纳税人。
  • She was declaiming against the waste of the taxpayers' money. 她慷慨陈词猛烈抨击对纳税人金钱的浪费。
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
证明( demonstration的名词复数 ); 表明; 表达; 游行示威
  • Lectures will be interspersed with practical demonstrations. 讲课中将不时插入实际示范。
  • The new military government has banned strikes and demonstrations. 新的军人政府禁止罢工和示威活动。
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
vt.分析,解析 (=analyse)
  • We should analyze the cause and effect of this event.我们应该分析这场事变的因果。
  • The teacher tried to analyze the cause of our failure.老师设法分析我们失败的原因。
adj.不情愿的
  • The natives were unwilling to be bent by colonial power.土著居民不愿受殖民势力的摆布。
  • His tightfisted employer was unwilling to give him a raise.他那吝啬的雇主不肯给他加薪。
标签: VOA慢速英语
学英语单词
All is well that ends well
almightihede
Ammoket
androgen insensitivity
antipest sera
apophenic
arch-center
assembly bolt
attracting fish lamp
ballet shoe
baritone hornist
basal cells
be prejudiced against
bearing for screw conveyer
bio-rhythms
block accounts
bucketload
bulge ore carrier
Bulmers
buoyant equilibrium
Carresse-Cassaber
chikungunya
circoid
clifflike
comigration
course of event
Cranberry Lake
discharge measurement
doual
dysesthesia tester
fibers. Korff's
firebrands
flowline guide funnel
foreign exchange official rate
Forstner bit
gortat
gotten through to
gudmundsson
Harmonized Description Coding System
higher order goods
Hussein
Hyalospongea
hygrophylline
income-generating
instils
instruction-oriented algorithm
interdigited bipolar transistor
jamye
juice mixer
juvenency
kick ahead
kinzer
lattice keratitis
Lea Lea
ledger card
Lemnians
liebows
like a hog on ice
livescanning
lymphonoduli aggregati (intestini coli)
Manglietia insignis
meta-searching
metalacyclic
Mississippi College
naked-tailed
nationalism
Niani
non retentive material
not worth a plack
offset right
oil fuel pumping unit
ole-talk
particular kind
pent-house apartment
permissible application rate of sprinkler irrigation
phlox subulatas
profile shifted gears for cylindrical worm gear
salvatores
schema declaration
shack fever
ship's class
shipward
software pirate
Ste-Foy-la-Grande
Stephan Str.
sumisho
target speed setter
teacher-in-training
test run
tff
time-variable gain
Tinharé, I.de
to set the table
toepieces
transformer sheet
trung
unrestricted submarine warfare
value on
waddingham
Which one would you like
wideband demodulator
wilmerding