VOA标准英语2009年-Obama Economic Team has Wide-Ranging Assessment
时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2009年(三月)
Economic aides to President Barack Obama are offering varying assessments 1 of where the U.S. economy stands two months into the new administration. Leaders of Mr. Obama's economic team took to the airwaves Sunday.
New York Stock Exchange
Last week saw U.S. financial markets rally amid upbeat news from the nation's beleaguered 2 banking 3 sector 4 that outshone another dose of discouraging numbers on employment, business inventories 5, and other economic indicators 6.
But if the economy and financial markets are giving mixed signals, key members of the Obama administration also appear less than uniform in their economic pronouncements.
Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press program, the head of the president's Council of Economic Advisors 8, Christina Romer, was asked if the U.S. economy is fundamentally sound.
"Well, of course the fundamentals are sound in the sense that the American workers are sound," said Christina Romer. "We have a good capital stock. We have good technology. We know that, temporarily, we are in a mess."
National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers at the White House on 23 Feb 2009
Far more somber 9 was the director of Mr. Obama's National Economic Council, Larry Summers, who spoke 10 on Fox News Sunday.
"We have an economy that is losing 600,000 jobs a month," said Larry Summers. "That [job loss] is probably not going to stop imminently 11. And so while there are signs that some of the things that the president is doing are starting to have effect, these problems did not get made overnight. They did not get made in a year. And they are not going to get fixed 12 very rapidly, either."
All administration officials stress the key to recovery is the implementation 13 of the president's full economic agenda. Mr. Obama has already made significant strides to that end, according to economic advisor 7 Austan Gooslbee.
"In the first 51 days of this president, the administration has passed a series of really dramatic moves: the biggest financial rescue package that we have seen in decades, the largest stimulus 14 in the history of the country, the biggest home foreclosure prevention and mortgage assistance program since the [Great] Depression." said Austan Gooslbee.
Goolsbee also appeared on Fox News Sunday.
Republicans are showing no inclination 15 to support President Obama's proposed federal budget for the next fiscal 16 year, which would dramatically boost government spending.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke on ABC's This Week program.
"Let us take a look at the budget the president is offering," said Mitch McConnell. "It will double the national debt in five years and triple the national debt in 10 years. It taxes too much, it spends too much, it borrows too much. What we really ought to be doing here is concentrating on fixing the financial system and the housing problem. Not using this crisis as an excuse to go on an explosion of spending."
President Obama says he inherited massive government debt and a sinking economy from his predecessor 17, President Bush, and that only drastic action will correct the situation while investing in the nation's needs pertaining 18 to health care, energy independence, and education. Republicans accuse the president of taking advantage of the economic crisis to push an overly ambitious and ill-advised domestic agenda. They say they hope to rein 19 in Mr. Obama's budget through legislative 20 amendments 21.
Mr. Obama's budget numbers and deficit 22 projections 23 assume a return to moderate economic growth next year, with robust 24 expansion in the years that follow.
- He was shrewd in his personal assessments. 他总能对人作出精明的评价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Surveys show about two-thirds use such assessments, while half employ personality tests. 调查表明,约有三分之二的公司采用了这种测评;而一半的公司则采用工作人员个人品质测试。 来自百科语句
- The beleaguered party leader was forced to resign. 那位饱受指责的政党领导人被迫辞职。
- We are beleaguered by problems. 我们被许多困难所困扰。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- John is launching his son on a career in banking.约翰打算让儿子在银行界谋一个新职位。
- He possesses an extensive knowledge of banking.他具有广博的银行业务知识。
- 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。
- In other cases, such as inventories, inputs and outputs are both continuous. 在另一些情况下,比如存货,其投入和产出都是持续不断的。
- The store must clear its winter inventories by April 1st. 该店必须在4月1日前售清冬季存货。
- The economic indicators are better than expected. 经济指标比预期的好。
- It is still difficult to develop indicators for many concepts used in social science. 为社会科学领域的许多概念确立一个指标仍然很难。
- They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
- The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。
- The governors felt that they were being strung along by their advisors. 地方长官感到他们一直在受顾问们的愚弄。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- We will consult together with advisors about her education. 我们将一起和专家商议她的教育事宜。 来自互联网
- He had a somber expression on his face.他面容忧郁。
- His coat was a somber brown.他的衣服是暗棕色的。
- 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。
- The problem of developing bend curve parts needs to be solved imminently. 弯边零件的展开是急需解决的问题。
- Obviously, the knowledge renews imminently, lifelong studies the duty to be arduous. 可见,知识更新迫在眉睫,终身学习任务繁重。
- Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗?
- Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
- 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。
- She greeted us with a slight inclination of the head.她微微点头向我们致意。
- I did not feel the slightest inclination to hurry.我没有丝毫着急的意思。
- 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。
- It will share the fate of its predecessor.它将遭受与前者同样的命运。
- The new ambassador is more mature than his predecessor.新大使比他的前任更成熟一些。
- Living conditions are vastly different from those pertaining in their country of origin. 生活条件与他们祖国大不相同。
- The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school. 视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
- The horse answered to the slightest pull on the rein.只要缰绳轻轻一拉,马就作出反应。
- He never drew rein for a moment till he reached the river.他一刻不停地一直跑到河边。
- Congress is the legislative branch of the U.S. government.国会是美国政府的立法部门。
- Today's hearing was just the first step in the legislative process.今天的听证会只是展开立法程序的第一步。
- The committee does not adequately consult others when drafting amendments. 委员会在起草修正案时没有充分征求他人的意见。
- Please propose amendments and addenda to the first draft of the document. 请对这个文件的初稿提出修改和补充意见。
- 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。
- Their sales projections are a total thumbsuck. 他们的销售量预测纯属估计。
- The council has revised its projections of funding requirements upwards. 地方议会调高了对资金需求的预测。