时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2008年(十月)


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U.S. and European central banks have in unison 1 cut their interest rates by half a percentage point. The coordinated 2 move is aimed at bringing some stability back to the shaky global economy and slumping 3 stock markets. For VOA, Tom Rivers reports from London.
 






Double-decker bus advertising 4 chocolate drives past The Bank of England in central London, 08 Oct 2008



The half-a-point lending rate cut was coordinated between the U.S. Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and the Banks of Canada, Sweden, Switzerland and England.

China also made a cut of just over a quarter of a point and the Bank of Japan strongly expressed its support for the coordinated international move.

In Britain, a Bank of England cut was anticipated, but that was not supposed to happen until Thursday.

Speaking in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the move was highly significant.

"The coordinated cut in interest rates is an important signal that the world will come together to deal with this economic problem and I believe that it has come at the right time to show that the action that we are taking and the action that the Americans are taking and the action taken in other countries in Europe is action that is designed to together solve the problem that we face," said Brown.

Building on this international coordination 5 the prime minister said, was very important. He said during the next couple of days accounting 6 standards will be discussed among G7 members, an IMF meeting is scheduled for Saturday and he hoped that an international leaders' meeting on the economic crisis could be held soon.

"We need to have responsibility and integrity at the heart of the global financial system," he said. "We need a global early warning system and cooperation among regulators that to be frank, we in Britain have tried for for years, but have not been able to persuade other countries to support and we will continue to seek coordinated action on economic policy."

The interest-rate announcement was made just after the British government disclosed its own $87.5 bank-rescue plan.

The lending rate cut managed to pull the major European markets out of the steep declines seen early in Wednesday's trade and some of that lost value was regained 7 in later trading.



n.步调一致,行动一致
  • The governments acted in unison to combat terrorism.这些国家的政府一致行动对付恐怖主义。
  • My feelings are in unison with yours.我的感情与你的感情是一致的。
adj.协调的
  • The sound has to be coordinated with the picture. 声音必须和画面协调一致。
  • The numerous existing statutes are complicated and poorly coordinated. 目前繁多的法令既十分复杂又缺乏快调。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
大幅度下降,暴跌( slump的现在分词 ); 沉重或突然地落下[倒下]
  • Hong Kong's slumping economy also caused a rise in bankruptcy applications. 香港经济低迷,破产申请个案随之上升。
  • And as with slumping, over-arching can also be a simple postural habit. 就像弯腰驼背,过度挺直也可能只是一种习惯性姿势。
n.广告业;广告活动 a.广告的;广告业务的
  • Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
  • The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。
n.协调,协作
  • Gymnastics is a sport that requires a considerable level of coordination.体操是一项需要高协调性的运动。
  • The perfect coordination of the dancers and singers added a rhythmic charm to the performance.舞蹈演员和歌手们配合得很好,使演出更具魅力。
n.会计,会计学,借贷对照表
  • A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
  • There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。
复得( regain的过去式和过去分词 ); 赢回; 重回; 复至某地
  • The majority of the people in the world have regained their liberty. 世界上大多数人已重获自由。
  • She hesitated briefly but quickly regained her poise. 她犹豫片刻,但很快恢复了镇静。
学英语单词
a road map
accommodation of human eye
Aitken, Robert Grant
amethis
anaesthetising
annual reproductive cycle
baa
bacterial immunity
ball valve sample chamber
be weak
Biothermics
blotted out
brachylogy
Bradley Gardens
branant disease
break something off
breke
cable installation with rack
car journey
colourfast
come back to earth
compression regulator
control data item
cooperative store
coulometrically
countersinging
crest of lesser tubercle
Curtis nozzle
daim
diameter of sphere
diffusance
discrete eigenfunction
disemboweling
dry combustion chamber
electro-hydraulic converter
embedments
fatty acids in phospholipids
fibril acid
fight at sharps
fleay
flocc
hemiplegia alternans inferior
Hunter-Schreger band
imbrication line
in-order-to motive
interfemus
inverse conical scan (ics)
jeanswear
jocundness
last heat of solution
Legal Person of Profit Making
line unit
loose change gear
macro phase
make no response
manila wrapping
manzils
mervan
methanobacteria
micheline
mochokid
mount on a dead horse
non-proficience
Nouba
odontoid
OMCHS
onglide
Ophiotaenia nankingensis
optical maser
outer splice bar
photographic shine machine
pocket knife
polyaminopolycarboxylic
porch swing
potato chopper
rainy spell
real-time clock executive
recording colorimeter
reduplicating
removes
renownedly
rotary pipe bending machine
running board corner iron
selenographists
shipping commission
skim through
Stephens
suiting
surrogate parenting
switchable network
t-v
terve
The nearer the bone the sweeter the meat
titanium (ti)
transmedulla
twitchings
typha davidiana hand-mazz.
visual direction finder
vitreous fibre
water lobelias
William Blake
works my ass off