时间:2018-12-19 作者:英语课 分类:VOA双语新闻 2011年9月


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  Stock volatility 1 continued on Wall Street Wednesday as markets turned their attention once more to the weak global economy. After an impressive rally Tuesday, fears about high levels of public debt in the U.S. and Europe have erased 2 all the gains and then some. There is growing concern that the global economy may be heading toward another painful recession.

Despite the U.S. Federal Reserve's assurances that it will keep interest rates near record lows for the next two years, all the gains made this week evaporated even before the opening bell.

尽管美联储承诺要把超低利率再保持两年,但华尔街股市这个星期却犹如过山车大起大落。

On closer examination, New York trader Keith Bliss 3 says many now see the Fed announcement as an admission that the world's most powerful central bank is out of ammunition 4.

纽约证交所交易商布里斯说,美联储的声明实际上就是承认,世界上最强有力的中央银行现在已经无计可施。

"The Fed is basically out of bullets. It's similar to those Hollywood movies where you see the guy fire all his bullets and now the only thing he has left to do is throw his gun," Bliss said.

布里斯说:“美联储基本上已经弹尽粮绝。这就像那些好莱坞大片描绘的情景,一个家伙打完了子弹,剩下唯一能做的事情就是把枪丢掉。”

But Bliss says the slowing U.S. economy is not the only issue roiling 5 the markets.

不过,布里斯说,搅乱市场的问题并不只是美国经济走软。

"And this is how skittish 6 and temperamental the market is. It reacts not only to factual aspects and fundamental aspects, but also rumors 8. So there was a rumor 7 that S & P (ratings agency Standard & Poors) was going to downgrade France's debt, there's rumors that there are French and German banks in trouble because they're holding a lot of sovereign debt over in Europe," Bliss said.

布里斯说:“市场就是这样焦躁不安,变化无常。影响市场的不光是实实在在的数据和基本面的东西。传言也能够搅乱市场。传言说标准普尔评级公司准备下调法国的债务评级,说法国和德国的银行也陷入困境,它们持有大量的欧洲国家的主权债务。”

Some see the combination of a weak U.S. outlook and the prospects 9 of another debt crisis in Europe as a recipe for a double dip recession. Financial expert Jon Henes tells VOA even the remedy is fraught 10 with peril 11.

有些人认为,美国经济前景疲软和欧洲再次发生债务危机的可能性加在一起为世界经济再次陷入衰退开好了配方。金融专家赫内斯对美国之音说,即使是解救的办法也同样充满危险。

"We have a debt problem in the United States and we have a debt problem in Europe. And to get out of a debt problem you have to reduce debt and when you reduce debt you end up having slow economic growth," Henes said.

赫内斯说:“美国有债务问题,欧洲也有债务问题。要解决债务问题就要减少债务。减少债务的结果是放缓经济增长。”

It is a tough pill to swallow for many Americans, who have seen the financial market's losses eat into their retirement 12 savings 13.

对于许多美国人来说,解决债务问题的措施是一粒很难下咽的药丸。金融市场的滑坡给许多美国人的退休金帐户造成了不小的损失。

"To see my 401K (tax-deferred retirement fund) drop 40 percent over the last year or two, even more so in the past couple of days -- that's devastating," one man said.

"We just need to have faith and roll with the punches and do the best we can whatever happens, but it is looking scary," one woman said.

“我们需要有信念,需要勇往直前,无论发生什么,我们都要尽自己最大的努力。但现在的形势真是可怕。”

On Wall Street, fear of high risk and heavy losses helped fuel another major sell-off. Some broad market indices have now fallen more than 20 percent since April. Unless there's a turnaround soon, analysts 14 say the decline could signal the unofficial start of a bear market.

人们对高风险和严重损失的恐惧在华尔街推动了新一轮抛售高潮。一些主要的市场指数从四月到现在已经下跌了20%以上。分析师们说,除非形势很快得到扭转,否则股市的下滑就标志着熊市已经非正式开始了。



1 volatility
n.挥发性,挥发度,轻快,(性格)反复无常
  • That was one reason why volatility was so low last year.这也是去年波动性如此低的原因之一。
  • Yet because volatility remained low for so long,disaster myopia prevailed.然而,由于相当长的时间里波动性小,灾难短视就获胜了。
2 erased
v.擦掉( erase的过去式和过去分词 );抹去;清除
  • He erased the wrong answer and wrote in the right one. 他擦去了错误答案,写上了正确答案。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He removed the dogmatism from politics; he erased the party line. 他根除了政治中的教条主义,消除了政党界限。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 bliss
n.狂喜,福佑,天赐的福
  • It's sheer bliss to be able to spend the day in bed.整天都可以躺在床上真是幸福。
  • He's in bliss that he's won the Nobel Prize.他非常高兴,因为获得了诺贝尔奖金。
4 ammunition
n.军火,弹药
  • A few of the jeeps had run out of ammunition.几辆吉普车上的弹药已经用光了。
  • They have expended all their ammunition.他们把弹药用光。
5 roiling
v.搅混(液体)( roil的现在分词 );使烦恼;使不安;使生气
  • Now, all that could be seen was the roiling, lead--coloured sea, with its thunderously heaving waves. 狂风挟着暴雨如同弥漫大雾,排挞呼号,在海上恣意奔驶。 来自汉英文学 - 现代散文
  • Rather, it is a roiling, seething cauldron of evanescent particles. 相反,它是一个不断翻滚、剧烈沸腾的大锅,内有逐渐消失的粒子。 来自互联网
6 skittish
adj.易激动的,轻佻的
  • She gets very skittish when her boy-friend is around.她男朋友在场时,她就显得格外轻佻。
  • I won't have my son associating with skittish girls.我不准我的儿子与轻佻的女孩交往。
7 rumor
n.谣言,谣传,传说
  • The rumor has been traced back to a bad man.那谣言经追查是个坏人造的。
  • The rumor has taken air.谣言流传开了。
8 rumors
n.传闻( rumor的名词复数 );[古]名誉;咕哝;[古]喧嚷v.传闻( rumor的第三人称单数 );[古]名誉;咕哝;[古]喧嚷
  • Rumors have it that the school was burned down. 有谣言说学校给烧掉了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Rumors of a revolt were afloat. 叛变的谣言四起。 来自《简明英汉词典》
9 prospects
n.希望,前途(恒为复数)
  • There is a mood of pessimism in the company about future job prospects. 公司中有一种对工作前景悲观的情绪。
  • They are less sanguine about the company's long-term prospects. 他们对公司的远景不那么乐观。
10 fraught
adj.充满…的,伴有(危险等)的;忧虑的
  • The coming months will be fraught with fateful decisions.未来数月将充满重大的决定。
  • There's no need to look so fraught!用不着那么愁眉苦脸的!
11 peril
n.(严重的)危险;危险的事物
  • The refugees were in peril of death from hunger.难民有饿死的危险。
  • The embankment is in great peril.河堤岌岌可危。
12 retirement
n.退休,退职
  • She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.她想享受退休生活而不必为金钱担忧。
  • I have to put everything away for my retirement.我必须把一切都积蓄起来以便退休后用。
13 savings
n.存款,储蓄
  • I can't afford the vacation,for it would eat up my savings.我度不起假,那样会把我的积蓄用光的。
  • By this time he had used up all his savings.到这时,他的存款已全部用完。
14 analysts
分析家,化验员( analyst的名词复数 )
  • City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
  • I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
学英语单词
acrospiromas
analytic operator-valued function
area levelling
atomic oxygen fluence model
axial cut distance
azimuth compiler
bahorok
ballast draft condition
batch calculation
bellowed
causative factors of injury
cepalotribe
cobalt nitrate
commodity in warehouse
companion piece
completion message
concentration tracer
cu fts
despotic monarch
dextropropoxyphene
doubling course
dwarf grey willows
elbow-bone
ewan mcgregor
fakeness
flat-plate pressing machine
foot piece
free open textured sand
friction bezel ring
game-fishing
hecto-coulombs
henders
heterogenous catalysis
hog-nosed snake
hollow cathode aluminum ion laser
horsemeat
hungers
hydrophiling
ill-luck
in boundless enthusiasm
incident neutron energy
Indigosol Green IB
iner
katastates
keep your chin up
lavand
load-carrying winding
low-volume shipper
Macquarie Island
magson
Maskil
mason cities
master distance indicator
MCAIS
measurement pattern
mene, mene, tekel, upharsin
metasilicate
more significant bit
Murray State University
new productive capacity
nonoperating
numerical response
optimum capital stock
pachycholia
paramilitarisms
paratrygonica
pentapyrrolidinium
phobic layer
phrasemakings
pinos
power weight ratio
prolified
rageaholics
ravet
reactive termination
redirector
retrofittable
rookly
rotundatus
rugous
satyr plays
sea-cornet
Seckels
single-tub wagon tipper
special holder
spironolactone(anti-aldosterone)
spitball
standard money unit of account
state of permanent neutrality
statistic bit rate
steel hemp
suck at
suratenses
to service
tweer
underground gasification of coal
urcaryote
variable-duration
water regeneration technique
whip a fault out of sb.
wormly
yellowishness