VOA标准英语2009年-World Markets Upbeat Friday
时间：2019-02-06 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2009年(二月)
Despite more grim international corporate 1 reports, global markets were generally upbeat Friday in anticipation 2 of the U.S. Senate heading toward a vote on a massive economic stimulus 3 bill.
A man checking stock prices is reflected on electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Japan, 6 Feb. 2009
Friday brought more bad economic news. Leading the list: worse than expected U.S. job losses in January that amounted to 598,000.
In Asia, more bad news as Japanese electronics maker 4 Sharp says it will lay-off 1,500 domestic employees in an effort to save just over two billion dollars.
And the world's biggest car producer, Toyota, has revised its losses for 2008. It now expects those losses to be three times higher than previous estimates, with a total of around five billion dollars.
In Germany, manufacturing output contracted by 4.6 percent in December, the steepest decline in 20 years.
In Britain, company bankruptcies 5 are up by more than 50 percent.
London insolvency 6 expert Nick Hood 7 says a lot of those bankruptcies were small business.
"These are family-owned businesses across all sectors 9 in the U.K. economy. And the pressures they are facing are the fastest deteriorating 10 markets any of them have ever seen, a complete uncertainty 11 about where they are going and of course great difficulty in accessing funding for their businesses," Hood says.
Even so, investors 12 seemed to shake off the torrent 13 of bad news. Both European and Asian stock markets climbed Friday.
Japan's Nikkei index gained 1.6 percent and Britain's FTSE 100 swelled 14 by 2.1 percent. Germany's DAX added 2.4 percent and France's CAC 40 surged 2.1 percent.
Investors were optimistic about the pending 15 U.S. stimulus plan, expected to win approval from U.S. lawmakers.
Also helping 16 were growing expectations governments would do more to help the world's struggling finance sector 8.
In the United States, Treasury 17 Secretary Timothy Geithner is expected to deliver a speech Monday outlining an overhaul 18 of the government's $700 billion financial rescue program. It is expected to include steps to extract the failed assets from bank balance sheets.
In Asia, better-than-expected manufacturing and bank lending reports this week helped boost confidence that Beijing's efforts to safeguard the economy were beginning to show results.
- This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
- His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。
- We waited at the station in anticipation of her arrival.我们在车站等着，期待她的到来。
- The animals grew restless as if in anticipation of an earthquake.各种动物都变得焦躁不安，像是感到了地震即将发生。
- 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。
- He is a trouble maker，You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼，你不要跟他在一起。
- A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。
- It's a matter of record that there were ten bankruptcies in the town last year. 去年这个城市有十家破产是事实。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Business bankruptcies rose 50 percent over the previous year. 破产企业的数量比前一年增加５０％。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
- The company is on the verge of insolvency.该公司快要破产了。
- Normal insolvency procedures should not be applied to banks.通常的破产程序不应当适用于银行。
- She is wearing a red cloak with a hood.她穿着一件红色带兜帽的披风。
- The car hood was dented in.汽车的发动机罩已凹了进去。
- 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。
- Berlin was divided into four sectors after the war. 战后柏林分成了4 个区。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Industry and agriculture are the two important sectors of the national economy. 工业和农业是国民经济的两个重要部门。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The weather conditions are deteriorating. 天气变得越来越糟。
- I was well aware of the bad morale and the deteriorating factories. 我很清楚，大家情绪低落，各个工厂越搞越坏。
- Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
- After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后，压力开始产生影响了。
- a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
- a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
- The torrent scoured a channel down the hillside. 急流沿着山坡冲出了一条沟。
- Her pent-up anger was released in a torrent of words.她压抑的愤怒以滔滔不绝的话爆发了出来。
- The infection swelled his hand. 由于感染，他的手肿了起来。
- After the heavy rain the river swelled. 大雨过后，河水猛涨。
- The lawsuit is still pending in the state court.这案子仍在州法庭等待定夺。
- He knew my examination was pending.他知道我就要考试了。
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
- The Treasury was opposed in principle to the proposals.财政部原则上反对这些提案。
- This book is a treasury of useful information.这本书是有价值的信息宝库。