时间:2019-02-18 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

  The governor of the Reserve Bank, Dr Bollard, reduced the official cash rate (OCR) by half a percent from 3% to 2.5% today. For background to the OCR, listen to June 10th 2010 and follow the links.

Most banks immediately dropped the floating mortgage 1 rates to under 6%. They dropped the fixed 2 mortgage rates last week.

The reason for the drop in the OCR is the Christchurch earthquake. The economy was not strong before the earthquake but now New Zealand faces more problems. There is the huge cost of rebuilding Christchurch which could be $15bn or more. In the meantime, so many Christchurch businesses are closed, workers have lost jobs and people are not interested in spending money on fashion or furniture. The kiwi dollar dropped after the earthquake to just under 74c to the US dollar. The increase in the price of food and fuel has not helped the economy either.

However, before the end of this year, the re-building of Christchurch will begin. There will be jobs for builders and other tradesmen. There will be a need for more building materials. Another hopeful sign is that New Zealand farmers are getting good prices for their food – especially milk and meat. Dr Bollard expects that the economy will start to improve from the middle of this year.

Pronunciation and vocabulary:

Note the pronunciation of “economy” with the stress on “con”. The adjective “economic” is stressed on the 3rd syllable 3: “nom”. You can use it for phrases like “economic growth”. The subject studied at university is “Economics” which is pronounced the same as the adjective but it has an “s” at the end.

The adjective “economical” has the stress on the 3rd syllable also but the meaning is different. It means: doesn’t so cost much e.g. My small car is economical to run. The verb “economise / ize” has a related meaning, make cuts to your spending e.g. You need to economise if you have very little money.



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。
adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的
  • Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗?
  • Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
n.音节;vt.分音节
  • You put too much emphasis on the last syllable.你把最后一个音节读得太重。
  • The stress on the last syllable is light.最后一个音节是轻音节。
学英语单词
active immunity
ajaccios
Almyropotamos
Ameca
amedo
angon
average daily calling rate
ball and inner ring assembly
barge to barge transfer
bills drawn under letter of credit
binary to decimal conversion
binnein mor
blowing spray
bomb calorimeters
branches at home and abroad
brick laid with mortar
capricorn beetle
carib woods
chimbley
complete set of eigenstates
contact flange
core and winding assembly
darrayne
disprovide
diverting dam
draw ... up
drift epoch
droseras
electron paramagnetic resonance
europium acetate
exchange volume
field investment
flairing
gemmifications
general call signal
Gentiloni
genus pedilanthuss
global liquidity
gone over
Hai Phong
heat-producing reaction
hflo
independent fault
inlaces
internal fuel
ionic speaker
irreversible circulation
ks-standard loading
latex examination gloves
LAVINIA
lipophilic compound
literatize
Loboc
macrocyclic compounds
metal-semiconductor-metal diode
monosuits
nonpsychological
notched furnace
oil sump tank
pallidofugal
Parafasciolopsis
pass-over offset
pentaradiate
pickup points
Pillsbury, Lake
plaque-infested port
plasma lipids
playdohs
public lawyer
Puccinia epimedii
put one's best foot first
radicicol
ratten-
readmitance
reclaiming by centrifuge
red-shank
relational instruction
resource productivity
sampling length
scare someone out of his wits
seasonal group profile code
settleability test
small wiring
soft corruption
spoliation
steam and gas
stereochemical formula
sun-bathing
suppression hangover time
tax reimbursement for export
thermofocal
tracepoint
tunnel in rock
twofold degeneracy
uncorrugated
unfavorable variance
union colourimeter
wetting of cloth
whidder
Wycakon-G
yudha