时间:2019-01-27 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

  Today, the Governor 1 of the Reserve Bank, Dr Alan Bollard, dropped the official cash rate by ? of 1 percent to 7.5%. This rate affects how much the banks have to pay to borrow money overnight 2 from the Reserve Bank. If the banks pay less, they can drop mortgage 3 rates for home owners. Already the major banks have announced lower mortgage rates. This is good news for people who are buying a house or for homeowners who have to renew 4 their mortgage.

Every 6 weeks, the Reserve Bank reviews the official cash rate. On July 24th it dropped the rate by only ? of a percent and people expected today would be the same so this was a surprise. The Reserve Bank could cut the cash rate again in October and December.

One job of the Reserve Bank is to keep inflation 5 between 1% and 3% per year. There is a slowdown in the New Zealand economy, as well as in the global economy. Businesses have higher costs but lower demand for their products. House prices are dropping and there is a slowdown in the building market. Food prices are up, because of the drought 6 earlier in the year then floods during winter and transport costs, while electricity is up and petrol prices are still high. Lower mortgage payments 7 will help families who are home owners, and lower interest rates will help many businesses.

However, some employees will get wage increases of 5% this year which could push inflation up. Dr Bollard is hoping that inflation will come down.

The Kiwi dollar dropped 1 cent against the American dollar after the announcement today. It’s now around 65 cents American to the New Zealand dollar. This is good for exporters but import costs will go up.



n.统治者,地方长官(如省长,州长,总督等)
  • The governor was an expert at fencing with reporters.这位州长是搪塞新闻记者的能手。
  • He was elected governor of the state of California.他当选为加州州长。
ad.前一天晚上,一夜间 a.前一天晚上的
  • She stayed overnight in the hotel. 她在旅馆过了一夜。
  • Our success is not won overnight. 我们的成功不是一夜之间得来的。
n.抵押,抵押贷款;vt.抵押
  • He's having a lot of trouble paying his mortgage every month.他付每月的抵押借款利息有很大的困难。
  • The bank refused to accept any mortgage on land.银行拒绝接受任何土地抵押。
vt.使更新,复始,使恢复,补充;vi.更新,重新开始
  • The most important thing is to renew your health.最重要的是恢复你的健康。
  • We must renew our supplies of coal.我们必须补充煤的储备。
n.胀大,夸张,通货膨胀
  • Gold prices are often seen as an indicator of inflation.黃金价格常常被看作是通货膨胀的指标。
  • The inflation of the airbed took several minutes.给空气床垫充气花了几分钟时间。
n.旱灾,干旱,久旱
  • The plants are growing in again,despite the drought.尽管干旱,植物又长出来了。
  • The ground is as hard as stone after the drought.长期干旱后土地硬得就像石头一样。
n.支付,付款,缴纳,报酬( payment的名词复数 );付出的[要付出的]款项;报答,报偿
  • Welfare payments cease as soon as an individual starts a job. 一旦就业,即停发福利救济。
  • The law can compel fathers to make regular payments for their children. 这项法律可强制父亲定期支付子女的费用。
学英语单词
adventure film
affordable
aide-de-campship
alphameric field descriptor
alpine ecosystem
amount in controversy
anti-racketeering law
apologizers
at retail
balanced colour demodulation
bluster it out
car-buying
carbon-glass-hybrid tape
carriage and four
carriage box volume capacity
carrying overs
cheese heating-forming machine
chromium-bronze
cinnamic acid
cock-a-doodle-doos
colourate
complex item
corrugation irrigation
country quotas
coupling loop
court-packing
cumulative probability function
current summation
cuzicks
dampness penetration
deaccent
deallocation detail
decussatio lemniscorum
detuning phenomena
drygoodss
echo boom
enceinte
ergophore group
Fadan Chawai
firm on one's feet
fission foil detector
forward nodal point
frothing capacity
glotti-
godzill
Herba Lobeliae Chinensis
horseshoe-shaped curves of zero velocity
imitation wool
information matrix
l8z
lancasterite (hydromagnesite)
Langevin-Debye law
level indicating controller
Lithosians
loaded q
LUQ
M-1
manageable
muntiacus reevesi
mushroom suction valve
Nizhniy Zadalesk
noninhibiting
oviformis
palaeologist
pasquels
peak gust
pikilia
place of erection
Porga
postpharnynx
postprandial
pseudomemory
quarter tie
re-harakhty
reduction by intermaxillary ela tic traction
remove the embargo on
rolled plate glass
single-flow boiler
slicche
slot-weld
Spiradiclis laxiflora
spyders
subsequently to
super alloy
supplies credit
swim goggles
szechuan movement
takes exception
topsy survydom
touch-tone data service
trifluoromethyldeoxyuridine
tubulin
typesite
untemporary
utterable
Vessel Traffic Services Center
wire rod pass
Wloszczowa
yablokov
zero-order homogeneity
zeura
Zuriel