时间:2018-12-05 作者:英语课 分类:商业报道2006年


英语课


Rachel Lee: The housing market keeps losing steam. Sales of previously 1 owned homes fell 5. 7% last month according to the National Association of Realtors. If you're looking for a house , the group's chief economist 2 David Lereah says it's a good time.
David Lereah: (Er) certainly (ah) it's been a seller's market for many years, and now the buyer will have a little more control or little more power when negotiation's going forward.
Still sales of existing home set a record last year for a 5th straight year, more than 7 million homes were sold.

Rachel Lee: Threatened by big fines, Microsoft says it'll licence Windows source code in Europe. Competitors need the code to make products compatible with Windows.

Rachel Lee: BlackBerry users are safe for a month. The judge won't consider a possible injunction untill Feb. 24th.

Rachel Lee: The government reports stockpiles of gasoline grew last week while crude oil inventory 3 shrank. Denton Cinquegrana is markets editor at the Oil Price Information Service.
Denton Cinquegrana: One of the things that probably led to the crude oil drop is, what's imported I think import's dropped by about 600, 000 barrels a day. But also refinery 4 demand is down a little bit and would probably continue to drop , probably through the rest of the first quarter as refiners are going to make then choose it. . .
Rachel Lee: Crude oil futures 5 fell more than $1 a barrel underreport.

Rachel Lee: The govenment's taking a closer look at hydrogen fuel as an energy alternative. Ed McCarthy has details.
Ed McCarthy: Don't expect a quick fix, U. S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman says more researches are ahead and they grant secured for the work on hydrogen fuel cells.
Samuel Bodman: We are awarding $19, 000, 000 for fuel cell membrane 6 research. The fuel cell membrane is really the heart of a fuel cell device.
Ed McCarthy: It could be 2020 by the time hydrogen fuel is used and there are other problems, the high cost to produce fuel cells and a lack of infrastructure 7 of filling stations to make them useful. Ed McCarthy, CNN.

Rachel Lee: American Airlines expects to bring in more money this year but the company's CFO also looks for higher costs especially for fuel.

CNN Radio Marketplace, I'm Rachel Lee.




1 previously
adv.以前,先前(地)
  • The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
  • Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿,解释原先发生了什么。
2 economist
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。
3 inventory
n.详细目录,存货清单
  • Some stores inventory their stock once a week.有些商店每周清点存货一次。
  • We will need to call on our supplier to get more inventory.我们必须请供应商送来更多存货。
4 refinery
n.精炼厂,提炼厂
  • 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。
5 futures
n.期货,期货交易
  • He continued his operations in cotton futures.他继续进行棉花期货交易。
  • Cotton futures are selling at high prices.棉花期货交易的卖价是很高的。
6 membrane
n.薄膜,膜皮,羊皮纸
  • A vibrating membrane in the ear helps to convey sounds to the brain.耳膜的振动帮助声音传送到大脑。
  • A plastic membrane serves as selective diffusion barrier.一层塑料薄膜起着选择性渗透屏障的作用。
7 infrastructure
n.下部构造,下部组织,基础结构,基础设施
  • We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
  • We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设,发展各类群众文化。
学英语单词
actinocarp
aerodrome beacon
aerodynamic rocket
airdashes
amphigen
antiglycolytic
anula
arriviste
asdic control room
baldassares
bilimbi
billygoats
bodily secretion
bonus scheme
borten abtanz (rumania)
broad band light source
center distance of riser
chromodoris odhneri
Comessatti test
cornsmut
Cotoneaster gracilis
curtain neat
cybervulnerability
Darién, Sa.del
day before day before yesterday
derbends
direct effects assumption
duplex chilled
electrotechnics
emergency category
English strong ale
entropion forceps
fagus lucida rehd. & wils
feather-cone fir
fermentation inhibitor
flick through sth
fluke worm
fund-raise
genus bruckenthalias
geomicrobiologist
glauming
Green Mountain State
growth-blocking peptide
guide-shoe
i-wone
iccu
inotropism
inscribed polygons
iron pail
iwill
Kalābishah
kazembe
Lauth's ligaments
lipsha
make a present of something to someone
marine microbial morphology
mass merchandiser
mesarch xylem
miskatonic
mittelstadt
mobile-unit truck
moving-coil type relay
Namukumbo
nevills
niggets
nonsmiles
oberlin
oops
pentaamine
pepperoni roll
petiolus epiglottidis
phloxin
picked her up
pilot frame
plottered
postmodern
puroclast
Rajasa
recovering expansion energy
red sorghum
reed tachometer
refractory-lined ovens
right opposite
Rodferon-A
row scanning
school counselor
semicarotenone
social objectives
spare attachment
standing wave voltage ratio (swvr)
streambuf
suchlikest
suffocate
sunitizing
t-i
tartaric acid solution
The Party Claiming in General Average
tombestere
two-dimensional state of stress
ultravisuscope
Xiphydria
zoomancy