听遍美国经济新闻--财经周末

Business Weekend

Techs trucked【交易】higher, the blue chips did falter(1), bonds plunged(2) oil on the downside, closing at about 28 in New York. Semiconductors【半导体】 were fat but defensive, such as drugs and tobaccos【烟草】, which are often sought as safe havens in times of economic uncertainty(3) , suffered at the expense of the high tech buying spree(4). Yahoo the Internet media heavyweight【重量级人物】reported a small first quarter profit that was quite a bit weaker than a year ago, saying it’ll lop 12 % of its work force【劳动力】as Yahoo struggles with declining advertising revenues(5).

Yahoo closing down 16 cents to 15.86. Motorola the No. 2 mobile phone maker forecasting(6) a second quarter loss a few cents more than the first quarter signaling(7) the slowdown in the tech sector may not be over. EMC the most active stock on the big board fell 2.19 to 32.21 saying it expects to miss earnings by about 10%. Dow Jones Industrial down 89 points to close at 10.013, the Nasdaq composite up 47, the S&P 500 down 2. For Business Week, I’m Gary Nunn, ABC News.


听音瓶颈词汇

1. falter[]v.蹒跚；动摇
2. plunge []v.暴跌
3. uncertainty []n.不稳定性
4. spree []n.狂购
5. revenue []n.收入
6. forecast [] v.预测
7. signal [] v.暗示；发出信号

听音高级短语

blue chip 蓝筹股；绩优股
at the expense of 在损害…的情况下； 以…为代价
lop 砍，删剪
big board 纽约证券交易所；纽约证券交易所行情牌

听音超级句型

…will lay off 12 % of its work force as Yahoo struggles with…
由于雅虎面临…难关…准备削减12 %的员工。