NPR边听边练260：白宫发布新的经济报告

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　　To mark the fifth anniversary of the financial collapse¹, the White House _1_ a new economic report.As NPR's Ari Shapiro reports it charts the impact on the government's interventions² to save the economy.This report looks at a wide range of measurements, home _2_, auto³ sales, consumer lending and more, on the everyone,

　　值此财务危机5周年之际,白宫公布了一份新的经济报告。正如NPR新闻的阿里·夏皮罗所报道的，这张图表就是政府实施干预措施来拯救经济影响的写照。这份报告公布了对于每个人而言关于房价、汽车销售、消费信贷广泛的数据评估，

　　the White House _3_ that things are better than they were and in many cases, economic advisor⁴ Gene⁵ Sperling says things turned out better than anyone anticipated.On a conference call, he _4_ the AIG bailout as one example, where the government spent 182 billion dollars to save the bank,and today, Tax payers, the federal government has now seen return of 205 billion or 23 billion more than what's put in,

　　白宫认为,事情比原先和许多情况都有起色,经济顾问吉恩·斯珀林表示结果比任何人预期的都要好。在一次电话会议上,他援引AIG救助作为一个例子,政府花了1820亿美元来拯救这家银行,今天, 纳税人,联邦政府已经看到比投入多的2050亿或者230亿还回,

　　But by other measures of the recovery is less than impressive.Unemployment _5_ at 7.3%.A typical worker today makes little more than a decade ago and the income divide is larger than it's been in almost a century.

　　但通过其他措施的复苏印象就不是如此深刻。失业率依然维持在7.3%。现如今一名传统工人的收入已经超过十年前但收入鸿沟却将近一个世纪。

　　Ari Shapiro NPR News, Washington.

　　NPR新闻, 记者阿里·夏皮罗，华盛顿报道。

　　词汇解析：

　　1.financial collapse 财务危机

　　eg:Russia's financial collapse was in august 1998.

　　俄国金融崩溃发生在1998年8月份。

　　eg:Her architectural career stalled after the financial collapse in 2008.

　　她的建筑师生涯于2008年的金融危机后停步了。

　　2.tax payer 纳税人

　　eg:I do not think the tax payer was very happy about that.

　　我认为纳税人对此不会很乐意的。

　　eg:I do not think the tax payer is very happy about that.

　　我认为纳税人对这些不会很乐意的。

　　参考答案：

　　1、has released 2、prices 3、argues

　　4、offered 5、remains

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