一、泛聽建議:
1、完整聽一遍,掌握大意。
2、繼續(xù)聽,特別注意關(guān)鍵信息。遇到相似的詞,寫下來。
To find a year as good as 2013 on Wall Street to get you all the way back more than 15 years. All three the major US stock market indexes up more than 25% of the final trading day of the year _1_ a close. Economist Mark Zandi with Moody's Analytics says the gains were broad-based and relatively steady _2_ the year.
2013年華爾街的成績(jī)非常耀眼,上次達(dá)到這樣優(yōu)秀的表現(xiàn)要追溯到15年前。2013年最后一個(gè)交易日即將結(jié)束時(shí),美國(guó)三大股市指數(shù)的上漲幅度均超過25%。穆迪分析公司的經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家馬克·贊迪表示,全年的增長(zhǎng)趨勢(shì)廣泛,而且相對(duì)平穩(wěn)。
"Businesses are doing well, big multinational corporations whose stock _3_ there are doing fabulously well. They are very profitable. Their margins are about as wide as they've ever been. And of course, the Federal Reserve Board _4_ a lot as well. The Fed has been trying to support the economy through very aggressive actions keeping its interest rates at zero and pumping up liquidity, of course, a lot of that _5_ is going into the stock market."
“企業(yè)表現(xiàn)不俗,大型跨國(guó)公司股票的表現(xiàn)相當(dāng)出色。它們所獲得的利潤(rùn)很高。所取得的贏利幾乎是有史以來最高的。當(dāng)然,美聯(lián)儲(chǔ)也幫了很多忙。美聯(lián)儲(chǔ)試圖通過積極措施來幫助經(jīng)濟(jì)復(fù)蘇,這些措施包括使利率保持在0左右的水平,同時(shí)增加流動(dòng)性,當(dāng)然其中大部分資金都進(jìn)入了股票市場(chǎng)。”
On Wall Street today, the Dow was up 72 points to end the year 16,576. The S&P 500 gained seven points.
今天的華爾街?jǐn)?shù)據(jù),道瓊斯工業(yè)平均指數(shù)上升72點(diǎn),報(bào)收16,576點(diǎn)。標(biāo)準(zhǔn)普爾500指數(shù)上升7點(diǎn)。
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詞匯解析:
1. broad-based
adj.無限的,包含廣泛的;
eg. However, clearly the time had come for a more comprehensiveand broad - based solution.
不過, 現(xiàn)在顯然是應(yīng)該出臺(tái)更為廣泛全面的解決方案的時(shí)候了。
eg. Your interests are extremely broad based.
你的興趣是極為廣泛的。
2. pump up
給…打氣;〈非正式〉促進(jìn)…大幅增長(zhǎng);
eg. I tried to pump up my back tyre.
我試圖給后胎打氣。
eg. They find it difficult to pump themselves up for the games.
他們感到要為自己加油打氣,自信滿滿地去打比賽并不容易。
eg. Increase government spending and that will pump up consumer spending.
增加政府開支就會(huì)提振消費(fèi)者支出。
參考答案:
1、come to 2、throughout 3、is traded
4、is helping 5、funding