本篇文章是有关经济衰退的,属于科普知识。美式英语发音,慢速英语。语速正常。可以作为口译入门或基础英语听力口语听写的素材。大家快来挑战自己吧!
答案和解析来啦:
For millennia, the people of Britain had been using bronze to make tools and jewelry, and as a currency for trade.
几千年来,英国人民一直在使用青铜制作工具和珠宝,并用作贸易货币。
But around 800 BCE, that began to change:
但是大约在公元前800年,情况开始改变:
the value of bronze declined, causing social upheaval and an economic crisis — what we would call a recession today.
青铜的价值下跌,导致社会动荡和经济危机——即今天我们所称的经济衰退。
What causes recessions?
是什么导致经济衰退?
This question has long been the subject of heated debate among economists, and for good reason.
长期以来,这个问题一直是经济学家们热议的话题,而且这是有充分理由的。
A recession can be a mild decline in economic activity in a single country that lasts months,
衰退可以是一个国家里经济活动持续数月的轻微下跌,
a long-lasting downturn with global ramifications that last years, or anything in between.
也可以是全球经济长期不景气的后果,或是介于两者之间的某种情况。
解析在这里哦!
1. millennia,名词,millennium的复数,表示“千年期”,比如:the dawn of a new millennium. (新千年的开始)。
2. bronze,名词,表示“青铜”,比如:a bronze statue of Giorgi Dimitrov(一座乔治•季米特洛夫铜像)。
写到这儿,怎么突然想起来王者荣耀了。但我可是从来都不玩儿。
3. recession,名词,表示“(经济的)衰退期”,比如:a period of recession and underemployment(一段时间的衰退和就业不足)。
4. downturn,名词,尤指经济方面的衰退和下降趋势,比如“a downturn in production(生产的下降)。
5. ramifications,名词,单词原形为:ramification,表示“衍生的结果、派生的影响、后果”,比如:consider a proposal and all its ramifications(审议一项提议及其所有的结果)。
这些关于经济的词汇,可都是很硬核的哦,一定要掌握哈!