voa标准英语2008-France Prepares $30 Billion Economic Stimulus Pl
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2008年(十二月)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy announces his economic stimulus plan on 04 Dec. 2008 in Douai, North of France
The French plan is the latest of a series of proposals by various European governments to earmark massive amounts of money to help reinvigorate their moribund 2 economies. In a speech in northern France, President Sarkozy said the global economic crisis would sharply change people's behavior, values and ideas - and that France needed to confront it head on.
Mr. Sarkozy said the response by his conservative government will be investment. He said investment was the best way to sustain activities and to save jobs for today - and tomorrow. For a long time, he said, France had postponed 3 this kind of investment to make the French economy more competitive. He said not doing so now would be a major error.
The French president spoke 4 in Douai, which is home to a major Renault car factory. As elsewhere in Europe and the United States, the French car industry has been hard hit by the crisis, and part of Mr. Sarkozy's stimulus plan aims to shore up the automobile 5 sector 6.
Italy, Germany, Spain and Britain have also unrolled similar plans worth tens-of-billions of dollars.
While France has so far narrowly escaped a recession - which is defined as two successive periods of negative growth - it is widely expected to be in recession next year. The 15-nation eurozone, which includes France, is already in recession
- Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
- Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。
- The moribund Post Office Advisory Board was replaced.这个不起作用的邮局顾问委员会已被替换。
- Imperialism is monopolistic,parasitic and moribund capitalism.帝国主义是垄断的、寄生的、垂死的资本主义。
- The trial was postponed indefinitely. 审讯无限期延迟。
- The game has already been postponed three times. 这场比赛已经三度延期了。
- 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。
- He is repairing the brake lever of an automobile.他正在修理汽车的刹车杆。
- The automobile slowed down to go around the curves in the road.汽车在路上转弯时放慢了速度。