2007年9月20日美国房价继续下跌将造成新冲击_商贸英语

2007年9月20日美国房价继续下跌将造成新冲击

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美国一位知名房地产专家昨日警告，如果美国房价继续下跌，将再次对经济造成像当前信贷紧缩那样程度的冲击。

Fresh economic shocks on the scale of the current credit squeeze will occur if US house prices continue to fall, one of the country’s leading housing experts warned yesterday.

耶鲁大学(Yale University)经济学家罗伯特?席勒(Robert Shiller)向一个美国国会小组表示，他担心“此次房价崩溃可能成为自大萧条(Great Depression)以来最严重的一次”。

Robert Shiller, a Yale university economist¹, told a US congressional panel that he feared “the collapse² of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression”.

他向参议院联合经济委员会表示：“房价下跌将造成未来的混乱局面，就像我们刚刚经历的信贷危机那样。”

“The decline in house prices stands to create future dislocations, like the credit crisis we have just seen,” he told the Senate’s joint³ economic committee.

上述警告突显出一种日益普遍的观点，即金融市场动荡和信贷环境收紧，是美国房地产市场暴跌的早期结果。目前美国房地产市场的下跌趋势正在加快。

The warning underlines an increasingly widespread view that the turmoil⁴ in financial markets and tightening⁵ lending conditions are early consequences of a slump⁶ in the US housing market that is gathering⁷ momentum⁸.

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1 economist
n.经济学家，经济专家，节俭的人
参考例句：
He cast a professional economist's eyes on the problem.他以经济学行家的眼光审视这个问题。 He's an economist who thinks he knows all the answers.他是个经济学家，自以为什么都懂。

2 collapse
vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷
参考例句：
The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。 The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

3 joint
adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合
参考例句：
I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。 We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

4 turmoil
n.骚乱，混乱，动乱
参考例句：
His mind was in such a turmoil that he couldn't get to sleep.内心的纷扰使他无法入睡。 The robbery put the village in a turmoil.抢劫使全村陷入混乱。

5 tightening
上紧，固定，紧密
参考例句：
Make sure the washer is firmly seated before tightening the pipe. 旋紧水管之前，检查一下洗衣机是否已牢牢地固定在底座上了。 It needs tightening up a little. 它还需要再收紧些。

6 slump
n.暴跌，意气消沉，（土地）下沉；vi.猛然掉落，坍塌，大幅度下跌
参考例句：
She is in a slump in her career.她处在事业的低谷。 Economists are forecasting a slump.经济学家们预言将发生经济衰退。

7 gathering
n.集会，聚会，聚集
参考例句：
He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。 He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。

8 momentum
n.动力，冲力，势头；动量
参考例句：
We exploit the energy and momentum conservation laws in this way.我们就是这样利用能量和动量守恒定律的。 The law of momentum conservation could supplant Newton's third law.动量守恒定律可以取代牛顿第三定律。

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