准确性练习9--经济专题
1.The index of leading economic indicators fell 0.3% in May. In the same month, new-home sales plunged to a 12-month low, despite the best mortgage rates in two decades.
5月份主要经济指标指数下降了0.3%。在同一个月,新房销售额跌至12个月最低点,尽管抵押贷款利率达到二十年来最高值最优惠水平。
分析:the best不是指利率最高,而是优惠最高
2.
In one such report, Commerce said last week that its index of leading economic indicators rose a strong 1.2% in July.
在这份报道中,商业部上周表示,其主要经济指标指数在七月大幅(强势)上涨了1.2%。
答案:美国商务部上周在经济报告中透露,七月的领先指标指数强势上升了1.2%。
分析:句中顺序可做调整
3.“…World Bank Managing Director Richard Frank said in a statement that the $52 billion international rescue package assembled by the Obama administration--which includes $17 billion from the International Monetary Fund--would meet Mexico’s short-term financial crisis, which blew up after the government devalued the peso in December.”
世界银行常务董事理查德·弗兰克在一份声明中说,奥巴马政府组织筹集的520亿美元国际救援基金,其中包括国际货币基金会提供的170亿美元,将用于解决墨西哥短期的金融危机,此次金融危机是由于12月份墨西哥政府贬值比索造成的。
答案:…世界银行常务副行长理查德·弗兰克在一份声明中透露,奥巴马政府募集到520亿美元国际救援款,将用以应对墨西哥短期金融危机,此笔款项还包括来自世界货币基金组织的170亿美元。这次危机的爆发,是由墨西哥政府在12月将比索贬值导致的。
4.The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed this week at 2909.1, up 6.3% in the past four weeks and up 544 points, or 23%, since its October low.
道琼斯工业平均指数本周收盘2909.1点,较过去四周上涨6.3%,自指数较低的十月以来上涨544点,涨幅23%。
答案:道琼斯工业指数本周收于2909.1点,在过去四周上涨6.3%,比起10月低点,上涨23%,即544点。
5.The stock market gave the flagging recovery an apparent vote of non-confidence last week when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 120 points on Friday.
上星期五,道琼斯工业指数暴跌120点,股市明显对疲软的经济复苏失去了信心。
答案:上周五,道琼斯平均工业指数大跌120点,可见,股市对经济复苏明显信心不足/不看好。
6.March Cotton closed 0.46 cent lower at 85.30 cent.
3月份棉花收盘85.30美分,下降0.46美分。
7.The Deutsche Bank cut its discount rate to 3.5%, the lowest level in seven years.
德意志银行将贴现率降至3.5%,为七年来的最低水平。
8.The number of workers in the United States applying for state unemployment benefits rose to the record high level in more than a month.
仅仅一个多月时间,美国申请失业救济金的工人人数破最高纪录。
答案:美国申请失业救济金的工人人数一个多月来上升到历史最高点。
9.Export surplus was 72.54 billion Euros, compared with 47.71 billion Euros in the same period a year earlier.
出口盈余为725亿4000万欧元,相比之下,去年同期仅为477亿1000万欧元。
答案:与去年同期477.1亿欧元相比,出口顺差为725.4亿欧元。
10.The December T-bond futures ended today at 117-13/32 in Tokyo market against its previous closing of 117-11/32.
东京市场十二月国债期货合约今日收盘117-11 / 32,上月昨天报收117-11/32.
答案:东京市场十二月份国债期货合约今天收盘报117-13/32,而昨天收盘报117-11/32