时间:2019-02-21 作者:英语课 分类:夏说英语新闻晨读


英语课

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The Bank of England halved 1 its base rate to a wafer-thin 0.25% and announced a big monetary 2 stimulus 3: buying £60 billion of British government bonds and £10 billion from selected companies. An unprecedented 4 downgrade slashed 5 its 2017 GDP growth prediction from 2.3% to 0.8%. A recruitment survey said the jobs market was in “freefall”.


词汇讲解:

Halve:减半

Wafer-thin:特别薄

Monetary stimulus:货币刺激

Government bond:政府债券(国债)

Unprecedented:史无前例的

Recruitment:招聘

Freefall:自由落体



v.把…分成两半( halve的过去式和过去分词 );把…减半;对分;平摊
  • The shares have halved in value . 股价已经跌了一半。
  • Overall operating profits halved to $24 million. 总的营业利润减少了一半,降至2,400 万元。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.货币的,钱的;通货的;金融的;财政的
  • 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。
n.刺激,刺激物,促进因素,引起兴奋的事物
  • 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。
adj.无前例的,新奇的
  • The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
  • A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。
v.挥砍( slash的过去式和过去分词 );鞭打;割破;削减
  • Someone had slashed the tyres on my car. 有人把我的汽车轮胎割破了。
  • He slashed the bark off the tree with his knife. 他用刀把树皮从树上砍下。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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