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经济类话题:
次贷危机:subprime mortgage crisis (SMC)
地产泡沫: real estate bubble -- 相关:泡沫经济: bubble economy
经济衰退或萧条: economic recession/ economic declining / economic depression
经济复苏:economic recovery
全球金融危机:Global financial crisis / financial turmoil / meltdown
利率:interest rate
可调整利率: adjustable rate
固定利率:fixed rate
汇率:exchange rate
货币升值:appreciation
货币贬值: depreciation
货币发行:note issue
货币流通:circulation
抛售美国债:short-selling US treasury bonds
外汇储备:foreign currency reserve
黄金储备: gold reserve
顺差: favorable balance / surplus
逆差: adverse balance / deficit
房贷: home-loan
投机者: speculator
抛售房产: flip one's house
信用危机:credit risk
信用不足: poor credit
不良贷款:non-performing loan / Bad loan
救市资金:bailout (居2008美国热词排行榜首位)
宏观经济:macroeconomic
财政刺激:fiscal stimulus
跨国公司:global corporation
申请破产:file for bankruptcy
收购:take over
股市大跌:crash/nosedive/plummet
裁员:ax jobs (大刀阔斧的砍) lay off / cut jobs / 口语委婉可以说 I'm between jobs.
失业率:unemployment rate
刺激消费:to stimulate consumption
扩大内需:to expand domestic demands
美联储:Federal Reserve
贸易保护主义、贸易壁垒:trade protectionism; trade barrier (美国宣扬“买国货”的实质)
股市下滑(挫):slide / fall / slump / tumble
经济刺激方案:economic stimulus plan
道琼斯:Dow Jones Industrial average(INDU) (曾经在近年听力翻译单句中出现过)
纳斯达克: Nasdaq composite
汽车商:Automaker ( GM n Chrysler )
原油:crude oil 也曾在00年听力新闻中考过
金价:... an ounce (注意“一盎司”的连读,很像announce)