日前,大都市房价一再飙升,工薪阶层的买房负担加重。和房价相比,辛辛苦苦攒了多年的钱也成了chicken feed(小钱,数额甚微的款项)。 俚语中,chicken feed常用来指a trifling amount of money(小

发表于:2018-12-12 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 美国俚语

Worth of the average price of gasoline is about to go on a rocket ride that could last through summer. So which cities are in for a directed hit?Is it yours? Here is ABC's Cecelia Vega. With record pain at the pump, 2011 felt bad enough, and today dr

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 万花筒2012年

房价包括费用 100元一天,包括供暖费但不包括服务费。 A:What services come with that? 这个价格包括哪些服务项目呢? B:It is one hundred Yuan a day including heating fee, but excluding service charge. 100元天,包

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 酒店英语口语就该这么说

At an office at the coastal country housing association headquarters in Redcar, of the 11 people in today, 9 are aged 20 to 34, and 4 of them are still living at home with their parents, it's becoming a national issue. In England alone, a quarter of

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 英伦广角

星级典句: 第一句:What's the price of the double room? 双人间的价格是多少? A: Do you have a double room available for Friday? 请问星期五有双人间空房吗? B: Just a moment, please. Oh, yes. We have a vacancy with doubl

发表于:2019-01-21 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 旅游英语口语情景对话

Finance and Economics;Global house prices;Downdraft; 财经;全球房价; 全球房价日渐衰落; European house prices are finding it harder to defy gravity; 欧洲房价难以扭转乾坤; From the late 1990s home prices across the rich world

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人财经系列

HOUSING markets are prone to boom-and-bust cycles, with prices overshooting then undershooting sustainable levels. To work out whether they are over- or undervalued, The Economist uses two gauges. One assesses affordability by comparing prices with d

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(39) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人财经系列

Popping property bubbles 戳破房地产泡沫 Choosing the right pin 选择正确的针 House prices in Europe are losing touch with reality again. Deflating the bubbles will not be easy 欧洲的房价渐与现实脱节。挤压泡沫并非易事 T

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人财经系列

Chinese property 中国房地产 For whom the bubble blows 泡沫为谁而破 House prices are soaring in big cities, but oversupply plagues much of the country 大城市房价飙涨,但产能过剩才是全国性的问题 SHANGHAI, Chinas financia

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人财经系列

There were 4.7 billion square metres of housing under construction but not yet available for sale at the end of last year, up by 25% from the end of 2011; 452 million square metres of housing were on sale, nearly three times as much as at the end of

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An informal street count by staff of City of Sydney council and volunteers has identified 486 homeless people sleeping rough in the inner city, the highest figure since the initiative was launched in 2010. 悉尼市议会的工作人员和志愿者进行

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

They may be in opposite corners of the globe, but Hong Kong, Sydney and Vancouver have one thing in common. 虽然香港、悉尼和温哥华地处全球的不同角落,但是它们有着同一个特征。 They're the top three most unaffordable ho

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

China's property sector continued to recover but on a slower pace in May, with fewer cities reporting month-on-month rises in new-home prices, an official survey showed. 一份官方数据显示,5月份,我国房地产行业继续回暖,但势头

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

China's housing market continued to warm in February, with more than half of surveyed major cities reporting month-on-month rises in new home prices. 中国房地产市场2月份持续升温,在调查的主要城市中,超过半数城市的新住宅

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

China's property sector continued to recover but at a slower pace in June, with fewer cities reporting month-on-month rises in new home prices, an official survey showed last Monday. 上周日,一项官方调查显示,6月我国房地产行业保持

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(41) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The U.S. housing sector remains weak, two years into an unprecedented decline. House prices, house sales, and house construction are all continuing to fall. 美国的房屋市场依然疲软,房价已经史无前例地连续两年下跌。美国的房

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2008年12月

The housing market 房市 Cool it 该降温了 Property prices are rising swiftly. The Bank of England may intervene 房价一路攀登,英格兰银行可能插手 BRITAIN'S housing market is like food in a microwave, says Spencer Dale, the chief e

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人文艺系列

Whenever the supply of a good is limited, there is potential for exuberance. 一种商品供给的有限性总是伴随着繁荣的潜在性。 San Francisco's property market is intertwined with the technology sector: since 2008 there has been a 93%

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人财经系列

Finance and economics: Global house prices Hot in the city 财经:全球房价,楼市过热 Valuations in globalised cities are rising much faster than in their hinterlands. 全球化城市的估价比其腹地增价快。 GLOBALISATION has creat

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人财经系列

日前,大都市房价一再飙升,工薪阶层的买房负担加重。和房价相比,辛辛苦苦攒了多年的钱也成了chicken feed(小钱,数额甚微的款项)。 俚语中,chicken feed常用来指a trifling amount of money(小

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语