商业报道:奥巴马经济复苏四步走（在线收听）

Obama's four-step rehab

President Obama announced a plan on Wednesday to help homeowners find relief and reduce the number of foreclosures .

So here's on my planned works.

First, we will make it possible for an estimated 4 to 5 million currently ineligible homeowners who received their mortgages through Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac to refinance their mortgages at lower rate.

The second thing we are gonna do under this plan is we will create new incentives, so that lenders work with borrowers to modify the terms of sub-prime loans at risk of default and foreclosure.

There's a third part of the plan, we will take major steps to keep mortgage rates low for millions of middle-class families looking to secure new mortgages.

Fourth, we will pursue a wide range of reforms designed to help families stay in their homes and avoid foreclosures, and my administration will continue to support reforming our bred... bankruptcy rules, so that we allow judges to reduce home mortgages on primary residences to their fair market value as long as borrowers pay their debts under court ordered plans.

GLOSSARY

1. ineligible adj.不合格的

2. Fannie Mae 范尼梅(美国俚语,指“联邦全国抵押协会FNMA”)

3. Freddie Mac 美国联邦住房贷款有限公司

4. refinance vt.再为...筹钱, 再供...资金

5. sub-prime loans 次级贷款

6. default n.拖欠 不履行

7. foreclosure n.丧失抵押品赎回权, 排斥

8. mortgage rates 抵押贷款率

9. a wide range of adj.各种各样的,大片的

10. bankruptcy rules 破产法

11. primary residences 主要住宅 A person's primary residence is the dwelling where they usually live, typically a house or an apartment.