NPR边听边练247：美投资者密切关注国会动态
时间：2018-12-26 作者：英语课 分类：NPR边听边练
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一、泛听建议：
1、完整听一遍，掌握大意。
2、继续听，特别注意关键信息。遇到相似的词，写下来。
Wall Street _1_ for what could be a rocky September. Danielle Karson reports that investors 1 will be keeping a close eye on Congress.
华尔街正在为艰难的九月形势做准备。据丹妮尔·卡森报道，投资者会继续关注国会的动态。
Investors have a lot to worry about this month--Congress in particular. Lawmakers need to pass _2_ bill to avoid a government shutdown. Then there is the US hitting its _3_ limit next month. If Congress doesn't raise the limit, the US could default on its debt. Lawrence Creatura, portfolio 2 manager for Federated Investors, says the Syrian conflict is a wild card.
投资者对这个月有很多担心，尤其很担心国会的决策。议员需要通过一项开支法案以避免政府关门。之后美国将在下个月触及债务上限。如果国会不提高上限，美国可能会面临债务违约。联合投资公司的投资组合经理劳伦斯·克雷亚图拉表示叙利亚冲突是个未知因素。
"Investors in general just hate uncertainty 3, and nobody knows exactly what is going to happen, _4_ it more difficult for investors to price assets."
“一般来说，投资者都讨厌不确定性，没有人确切知道会发生什么，这使投资者很难制定资产价格。”
The turmoil 4 in Syria is already making investors jittery 5. It's pushed up energy stock prices and driven up the cost of crude oil. For NPR News, I'm Danielle Karson.
叙利亚的混乱局势已经让投资者感到非常不安。这会使能源股票价格上升，提高原油的成本。NPR新闻，劳伦斯·克雷亚图拉报道。
NAACP President Ben Jealous will resign at the end of the year. He told NPR he wants to pursuit _5_ and spend more time with his family. Jealous is credited with _5_ the organization's finances and donor 6 base over the past five years and for improving its outreach.
全美有色人种协进会主席本·杰勒斯将在今年年底辞职。他接受NPR新闻的采访时表示，他希望过教师生活，有更多的时间可以陪伴家人。过去五年来，杰勒斯在改善协会的财务状况、捐赠基础以及促进推广方面做出了贡献。
This is NPR.
这里是NPR新闻。
词汇解析：
1. keep an eye on sth.
留意；密切注意；
eg. I'm sure you will appreciate that we must keep a careful eye on all our running costs.
我们必须密切关注所有的运营成本，这一点我想您肯定会赞同。
eg. I went for a run there, keeping an eye on the children the whole time.
我去那里跑步，期间一直留意着孩子们。
2. wild card
未知数；未知因素；
eg. The wild card in the picture is Eastern Europe.
整个局势中的变数是东欧。
eg. A: The advertisement is still a wild card.
这个广告的成功与否还是个未知数。
3. be credited with
把……归功于；认为……有某种成就；
eg. The 74-year-old mayor is credited with helping 7 make Los Angeles the financial capital of the West Coast.
洛杉矶成为西海岸的金融中心，那位74岁的市长功不可没。
eg. The relics 8 are credited with miraculous 9 powers.
这些早期遗物被认为具有神奇的力量。
参考答案：
1、is bracing 2、spending 3、borrowing
4、making 5、teaching
1 investors
n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )
- a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
- a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
2 portfolio
n.公事包；文件夹；大臣及部长职位
- He remembered her because she was carrying a large portfolio.他因为她带着一个大公文包而记住了她。
- He resigned his portfolio.他辞去了大臣职务。
3 uncertainty
n.易变，靠不住，不确知，不确定的事物
- Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
- After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后，压力开始产生影响了。
4 turmoil
n.骚乱，混乱，动乱
- His mind was in such a turmoil that he couldn't get to sleep.内心的纷扰使他无法入睡。
- The robbery put the village in a turmoil.抢劫使全村陷入混乱。
5 jittery
adj. 神经过敏的, 战战兢兢的
- However, nothing happened though he continued to feel jittery. 可是，自从拉上这辆车，并没有出什么错儿，虽然他心中嘀嘀咕咕的不安。 来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
- The thirty-six Enterprise divebombers were being squandered in a jittery shot from the hip. 这三十六架“企业号”上的俯冲轰炸机正被孤注一掷。
6 donor
n.捐献者；赠送人；(组织、器官等的)供体
- In these cases,the recipient usually takes care of the donor afterwards.在这类情况下，接受捐献者以后通常会照顾捐赠者。
- The Doctor transplanted the donor's heart to Mike's chest cavity.医生将捐赠者的心脏移植进麦克的胸腔。
7 helping
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
8 relics
[pl.］n.遗物，遗迹，遗产；遗体，尸骸
- The area is a treasure house of archaeological relics. 这个地区是古文物遗迹的宝库。
- Xi'an is an ancient city full of treasures and saintly relics. 西安是一个有很多宝藏和神圣的遗物的古老城市。
9 miraculous
adj.像奇迹一样的，不可思议的
- The wounded man made a miraculous recovery.伤员奇迹般地痊愈了。
- They won a miraculous victory over much stronger enemy.他们战胜了远比自己强大的敌人，赢得了非凡的胜利。