王强英语美文 11-What is Your Recovery Rate

What is Your Recovery Rate ? By Graham Harris What is your recovery rate? How long does it take you to recover from actions and behaviors that upset you? Minutes? Hours? Days? Weeks? The longer it takes you to recover, the more influence that inciden

VOA标准英语10月-US Cuts Key Interest Rate to Stave Off Economic D

The Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank, on Wednesday cut short-term interest rates in an effort to boost the slowing economy. VOA's Barry Wood reports it was the eighth cut in the overnight federal funds rate in the past year. United States Fede

S Korea freezes key rate at 2.25%

SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's central bank on Thursday decided to leave the key interest rate at the current level of 2.25 percent for the third straight month. In its monthly monetary（货币的） committee meeting, the Bank of Korea re

VOA标准英语2008年-US Army Suicide Rate Continues to Rise

By Al Pessin Pentagon 29 May 2008 The U.S. Army reported Thursday that the suicide rate among its soldiers continued to rise last year, and is now nearly double the rate recorded before the invasion of Iraq. But they say last year's increase was not

VOA标准英语2012--US Hiring Slows in March But Unemployment Rate Dips

US Hiring Slows in March But Unemployment Rate Dips American companies hired fewer workers in March but the nation's unemployment rate dipped slightly lower to 8.2 percent. Economists say that's because fewer people looked for work. Despite the slowd

精灵鼠小弟 第67期:和店主交谈

Are you going far? asked the storekeeper. 你还要走很远吗？店主问。 Perhaps very far, replied Stuart. 可能吧，斯图亚特说。 I'm looking for a bird named Margalo. 我在找一只叫玛戈的小鸟。 You haven't sighted her, have y

精灵鼠小弟 第47期:心碎的斯图亚特

She has not! sobbed Stuart, bitterly. 她没有丈夫！斯图亚特痛苦地小声哭着。 That's just a lot of nonsense. 你在胡说。 How do you know? asked George. 你怎么知道的？乔治问。 Because I asked her one time, cried Stuart. 因

精灵鼠小弟 第46期:寻找玛戈

For three days everybody hunted all over the house for Margalo without finding so much as a feather. 一连三天，所有人都在房子里到处寻找着玛戈，却连她的一根羽毛都没发现。 I guess she had spring fever, said George. 我猜

精灵鼠小弟 第40期:关于大西洋的事

Well, I could drop these ice skates, said Stuart. 行，我可以把这些冰鞋扔掉，斯图亚特说。 Goodness me, the little bird cried, I didn't know you had skates hidden in your shirt.天哪，小鸟说，我不知道你的衬衫里还藏着冰

精灵鼠小弟 第39期:拯救鼠小弟的玛戈

I've never been so glad to see anybody in all my life, said Stuart. 在我的一生里，看到什么人时还从没这么高兴过呢，斯图亚特说。 But how are you going to help me? 可你怎么才能救我呢？ I think thatif you'll hang on

精灵鼠小弟 第38期:死亡的念头

For he knew that the garbage would be towed twenty miles out and dumped into the Atlantic Ocean. 因为他知道这些垃圾要被运到二十公里外，投到大西洋里去。 I guess there's nothing I can do about it, he thought, hopelessly. 我猜

精美英文欣赏:What is Your Recovery Rate?你的恢复速率

沉湎过去,就无法与今天同行,明天因而也成了一个遥遥的无期。 沉湎过去，就无法让我们的每天过得精彩，痛苦因而成了一个咒语无法摆脱。 What is Your Recovery Rate? What is your recovery rate? How lon

US Now Has Developed World's Highest Corporate Tax Rate

The United States, with the world's-largest economy, now has claimed the dubious distinction of having the industrialized world's highest corporate tax rate. Japan dropped its corporate tax rate slightly on Sunday, to just more than 38 percent. That

China Not to Actively Debase Yuan Rate

The People's Bank of China's governor Zhou Xiaochuan says the Renminbi won't be actively depreciated to regain national competitiveness. Zhou was speaking during a recent International Monetary Conference in Shanghai, when he also suggested that now

双语有声阅读：What is Your Recovery Rate?

What is Your Recovery Rate? What is your recovery rate? How long does it take you to recover from actions and behaviors that upset you? Minutes? Hours? Days? Weeks? The longer it takes you to recover, the more influence that incident has on your acti

英语杂谈：105 Interest rate

[00:00.00]What's the interest rate for the savings account? [00:01.93]储蓄存款的利率是多少？ [00:03.85]Interest is calculated at the rate of 0.8% per annum at present. [00:06.61]目前每年的利率是按０.８％计算的。 [00:09.36]Y

U.S poverty rate rises to 14.3 percent last year

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- U.S. poverty（贫困） rate climbed to 14.3 percent in 2009, the highest level since 1994, as households' incomes were squeezed by the deepest recession（衰退） since the 1930s and high unemployment（失业率 ）

日本政府关注本国孩子出生率

According to the Washington Post of September 26, Japan's government has been paying more attention to the nations fertility rate, which influences the country's economic development。 The coastal region of Fukui has Japan's biggest share of dual-in

EU Calls for Criminal Penalties on Interest-Rate Rigging

The European Union says manipulating a benchmark interest rate in London should be a criminal offense. The EU called Wednesday for its 27 member states to set criminal penalties for rigging interest rates to affect the LIBOR [London Interbank Offered

CCTV9英语新闻：Wall Street up after Fed interest rate hike fears eased

Wall Street ended slighter higher on Wednesday after fears eased that the Federal Reserve would strongly signal plans for a June interest rate hike. The Dow Jones industrial average rose about 0.3 percent. The SP 500 gained 0.16 percent. The Nasdaq C