学个词 Learn a Word-VOA英语教学 3046 trade deficit

今天我们要学的词是trade deficit¹. Trade deficit贸易赤字。The monthly U.S. trade deficit increased to a near 9?-year high in February to $57.6 billion. 美国二月份的贸易赤字升至576亿美元，是近9年半以来的最高水平。U.S. government figures show the U.S. had a $375 billion trade deficit with China at the end of 2017. 美国政府公布的数据显示，美国2017年年底对中国的贸易赤字是3750亿美元。好的，我们今天学习的词是trade deficit, trade deficit, trade deficit ...

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n.亏空，亏损；赤字，逆差

参考例句：

• The directors have reported a deficit of 2.5 million dollars.董事们报告赤字为250万美元。
• We have a great deficit this year.我们今年有很大亏损。