时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2014年(三月)


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New Fed Chief Faces Reporters 新任美联储主席首次面对记者


WASHINGTON — The new head of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, is busy trying to bolster 1 the economy, cut unemployment and watch out for inflation. On Wednesday she will face reporters for the first time as Fed chief, a job that makes her one of the world's most powerful bankers and most important women. She says better communication about economic issues and policies will help the economy.


When Janet Yellen talks, powerful people listen.


The Federal Reserve chair has been briefing congressional committees about efforts to speed up the economic recovery and improve the job market without sparking inflation.


She said a Fed program using bond purchases to push down long-term interest rates was not being cut back too slowly - or too quickly.


It’s an example of the economics professor putting her teaching and communications skills to work.


“I strongly believe that monetary 2 policy is most effective when the public understands what the Fed is trying to do and how it plans to do it,” she said.


President Obama picked Yellen to be the first woman to head the Fed, in part because she could relate to ordinary people. 


“Too many American still can’t find a job and worry how they will pay their bills and provide for their families," she said.


Obama said Yellen was also tough, effective, and skillful.


“She sounded the alarm early about the housing bubble, about excesses in the financial sector 3 and about the risks of a major recession,” he said.


Besides her experience in dealing 4 with Congress, Yellen has also been second-in-command at the Fed, head of the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco, and a presidential economic advisor 5.


She is an economics professor, a researcher, and teacher at the University of California at Berkeley and other top schools.


An academic colleague, who has known Yellen for decades, says she will do well leading the Fed because she listens to the opinions of others, is good at putting people at ease, and even learned from her students who come to Berkeley from all over the world.


In a Skype interview, Berkeley professor Jim Wilcox said Yellen could also use humor to defuse a tense meeting, but was probably not the one in the middle of the room telling a joke.


"She does have a good sense of humor. She is more likely to be on the demand side than the supply side [more likely to laugh at a joke then to tell one] when it comes to jokes, she appreciates a good joke," he said.


Economics is a family affair for Yellen, who is married to a Nobel-prize winning economist 6 and their son is an economics professor.


“I would also like to thank my spouse 7 George, and my son Robert. I couldn’t imagine taking on this new challenge without their love and support," she said.


 


Between the fragile U.S. economy and Washington's tangled 8 politics, Yellen will need all the family support and personal skill she can muster 9.



n.枕垫;v.支持,鼓励
  • The high interest rates helped to bolster up the economy.高利率使经济更稳健。
  • He tried to bolster up their morale.他尽力鼓舞他们的士气。
adj.货币的,钱的;通货的;金融的;财政的
  • The monetary system of some countries used to be based on gold.过去有些国家的货币制度是金本位制的。
  • Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。
n.部门,部分;防御地段,防区;扇形
  • 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。
n.经商方法,待人态度
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
n.顾问,指导老师,劝告者
  • 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。
n.经济学家,经济专家,节俭的人
  • He cast a professional economist's eyes on the problem.他以经济学行家的眼光审视这个问题。
  • He's an economist who thinks he knows all the answers.他是个经济学家,自以为什么都懂。
n.配偶(指夫或妻)
  • Her spouse will come to see her on Sunday.她的丈夫星期天要来看她。
  • What is the best way to keep your spouse happy in the marriage?在婚姻中保持配偶幸福的最好方法是什么?
v.集合,收集,鼓起,激起;n.集合,检阅,集合人员,点名册
  • Go and muster all the men you can find.去集合所有你能找到的人。
  • I had to muster my courage up to ask him that question.我必须鼓起勇气向他问那个问题。
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alce
alternate operation
analog communication system
apivore
arei
badger skin
banharn
beidel
bhutanis
bioirrigated
broncho-egophony
CADD - computer-aided design and drafting
cephalaspidas
Cobh
common mode operation
connecting rod jig
conyngham
court reporters
crop fair and refit
cut sheets
cystopteriss
D'Alembert's test for convergence
deferral period
Dichloro-chloroaniline-triazine
dumbification
earth metals
egyptian capitals
electric double refraction
electrical(electric)
electrohydraulic steering gear
ethnically
feasible basis
fixed destination ticket
gaftney
ghurry
groundwater dynamics
haunched arch
have a slate off
have many irons on the fire
heat pump plant
Hennickendorf
idolizers
incisal embrasure
indentured worker
key property
Leonidas I
lesser sciatic foramen
lobular pneumonic
lossit
mactator
Nanny Goating
nearly best linear estimator
nephometer
net profit theory
neutron powermeter
normal tooth profile
noseband
o-aminoazobenzene
odontus
organization for product design
payments balance
pear cider
pesture
petticoat insulator
phallocratic
Phosphoglucomutase(glucose-cofactor)
polymorphic transformation
post production
preputial diverticulum
principle of charge compensation
pseudotumor of kidney
ranicipitid
rankism
referee for inquiry
repulsion state
rhenium(iv) oxydifluoride
rhinoptia
roller oscillating tooth
rontgen radiation
room of mother and infant
saccharimete
Serg., serg.
shoot bull
side wall stock divider
soil seepage
sort results
sorting key
special-branch
square bands machine
steam coals
steiber
stir-frying with adjuvants
streak plate
Strong, Anna Louise
suicidism
surf skis
swift electron
thawing equipment
vankirk
wax-pod
wisconsin glacial period
yam yams