VOA标准英语2009年-World Markets Gain Despite More Corporate Lay-O
时间：2019-02-08 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2009年(二月)
Despite a raft of new corporate 1 job losses, world stock markets are higher due to indicators 2 out of the United States and China that some say show the global economic downturn starting to stabilize 3.
Demonstrators hold up placards calling for 'British jobs for British workers' at an oil refinery 4 in northeast England
With large annual losses looming 5, Panasonic plans to cut 15,000 employees during the next year and shutdown 27 plants worldwide. That represents about five percent of its huge workforce 6.
And carmaker Mazda plans to cut 500 more jobs in Japan as the global slowdown continues to hit the auto 7 industry hard.
But not all the market-affecting news was bad. Overseas traders liked a surprise jump in U.S. homes sales in December and a report pointing to a leveling off in the drop of Chinese manufacturing.
Both of these helped the Tokyo index to close nearly three percent higher on the day.
The European markets also gained ground.
But the big worry for many in London remains 8 the shrinking job market. In Ireland, a new report shows the unemployment rate there rose to 9.2 percent last month. That is the highest level in 11 years.
Britain's PM Gordon Brown
Speaking in the British parliament, Prime Minister Gordon Brown again stressed that putting up trade barriers now in the hope of saving jobs would only make matters worse.
"The biggest danger that the world faces is a retreat into protectionism," he said. "... It is all the more reason why first of all we should sign the Doha agreement and that will feature on the G-20 agenda. Secondly 9, we should make sure that every country is analyzed 10 for what it is doing by the World Trade Organization to prevent protectionism, and it is also absolutely clear that we should agree as a world on a monetary 11 and fiscal 12 stimulus 13 that will take the world out of its depression."
London will play host to a summit of leaders from the so-called Group of 20 industrialized countries in early April.
On Thursday, all eyes will be on interest rates, with the Bank of England expected to cut aggressively once again while the more cautious European Central Bank may decide to hold off for now.
- 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。
- 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 are eager to stabilize currencies.他们急于稳定货币。
- His blood pressure tended to stabilize.他的血压趋向稳定。
- They built a sugar refinery.他们建起了一座榨糖厂。
- The purpose of oil refinery is to refine crude petroleum.炼油厂的主要工作是提炼原油。
- The foothills were looming ahead through the haze. 丘陵地带透过薄雾朦胧地出现在眼前。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Then they looked up. Looming above them was Mount Proteome. 接着他们往上看，在其上隐约看到的是蛋白质组山。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 回顾与展望
- A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture.劳动人口中一大部分受雇于农业。
- A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。
- Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
- The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
- Secondly,use your own head and present your point of view.第二，动脑筋提出自己的见解。
- Secondly it is necessary to define the applied load.其次，需要确定所作用的载荷。
- The doctors analyzed the blood sample for anemia. 医生们分析了贫血的血样。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The young man did not analyze the process of his captivation and enrapturement, for love to him was a mystery and could not be analyzed. 这年轻人没有分析自己蛊惑著迷的过程，因为对他来说，爱是个不可分析的迷。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- 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。
- 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。