南京全面取消住房限购

 　　NANJING, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, announced on Sunday to end housing purchase restrictions¹ in a bid to revive local property market.

　　In a notice released by the municipal government of Nanjing, the city will increase the supply of small and medium-sized apartments in the future.

　　Currently, sluggish² sales left housing inventories³ overstocked in Nanjing. Meng Xiangyuan, a real estate scholar with Nanjing Forestry⁴ University, estimated that 51,000 new homes had yet to be sold in the city.

　　One more Chinese city scraps⁵ housing purchase limit

　　The city placed housing purchase limits to restrict local residents to two homes amid a spate⁶ of other measures to cool off the then red hot property market in early 2011.

　　In order to revive the market and boost economy, more than 30 Chinese cities announced to lift or loosen the housing purchase limit this year. Only six others including first-tier cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou still keep the policy.

1 restrictions   

约束( restriction的名词复数 )； 管制； 制约因素； 带限制性的条件（或规则）

参考例句：

• I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
• a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制

2 sluggish   

adj.懒惰的，迟钝的，无精打采的

参考例句：

• This humid heat makes you feel rather sluggish.这种湿热的天气使人感到懒洋洋的。
• Circulation is much more sluggish in the feet than in the hands.脚部的循环比手部的循环缓慢得多。

3 inventories   

n.总结( inventory的名词复数 )；细账；存货清单（或财产目录）的编制

参考例句：

• In other cases, such as inventories, inputs and outputs are both continuous. 在另一些情况下，比如存货，其投入和产出都是持续不断的。
• The store must clear its winter inventories by April 1st. 该店必须在4月1日前售清冬季存货。

4 forestry   

n.森林学；林业

参考例句：

• At present, the Chinese forestry is being at a significant transforming period. 当前, 我国的林业正处于一个重大的转折时期。
• Anhua is one of the key forestry counties in Hunan province. 安化县是湖南省重点林区县之一。

5 scraps   

油渣

参考例句：

• Don't litter up the floor with scraps of paper. 不要在地板上乱扔纸屑。
• A patchwork quilt is a good way of using up scraps of material. 做杂拼花布棉被是利用零碎布料的好办法。

6 spate   

n.泛滥，洪水，突然的一阵

参考例句：

• Police are investigating a spate of burglaries in the area.警察正在调查这一地区发生的大量盗窃案。
• Refugees crossed the border in full spate.难民大量地越过了边境。