英语新闻听写 美联储第六次上调基准利率

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rate for the sixth time since late-2015.

周三，美联储上调基准利率，这是自2015年年底以来第六次上调。

The Fed has worked to normalize monetary¹ policy over the past two years.

过去两年来，美联储一直致力于货币政策的正常化。

It begun with its initial move off historically low, near-zero rates in December 2015.

2015年12月基准利率接近零这一历史低点，也就是从那时开始上调的。

Since that time, it has raised rates in incremental² 25-basis-point moves, and has begun to slowly wind down a balance sheet that exceeds four trillion dollars.

从那以后每次上调25基点，并且已经开始逐渐减少那超过4万亿美元的资产负债表。

1 monetary   

adj.货币的，钱的；通货的；金融的；财政的

参考例句：

• The monetary system of some countries used to be based on gold.过去有些国家的货币制度是金本位制的。
• Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。

2 incremental   

adj.增加的

参考例句：

• For logic devices, the incremental current gain is very important. 对于逻辑器件来说，提高电流增益是非常重要的。 来自辞典例句
• By using an incremental approach, the problems involving material or geometric nonlinearity have been solved. 借应用一种增量方法，已经解决了包括材料的或几何的非线性问题。 来自辞典例句