VOA慢速英语: 希腊金融危机，中国在东亚股市举足轻重

Share prices mostly fell on Asian stock markets Monday after Greek voters rejected a European financial plan requiring new cost-cutting measures.

继希腊公投否决一项新的要求削减成本的措施后，亚洲大部分股市随之下降。

Investors talk at a brokerage house in Nantong, Jiangsu province, China, July 3, 2015. China's stock markets have had been decreasing since June.

Japan’s main measure of stock prices, the Nikkei index, lost more than two percent. However, Japan’ s Chief Cabinet Secretary said events in Greece had a limited effect on stock prices in his country. YoshihideSuga said “the ties between Japan and Greece economically and in the financial markets are very limited.” He also said he believed the 19 countries using the euro as money would, “take responsible actions to address the Greek situation.”

日本主要股市指数——日经指数降幅超过2%。然而，日本内阁官房长官菅义伟称希腊对本国股市影响有限。他表示，日希两国在经济上和金融上的联系都是有限的，他相信使用欧元的19个国家将会承担责任并帮助解决希腊困难。

Other major stock indexes in East Asia also fell. South Korea’s Kospi index fell two percent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index fell 3.2 percent -- its largest drop in more than three years. Concerns over the effects of the vote in Greece may have been partly to blame. But fallings tock prices in China also concerned investors. Mainland China is Hong Kong’s biggest trading partner.

东亚其它股票指数也在下降。韩国综合股价指数下降两个百分点。香港恒生指数下降篇幅达3.2%——这是它三年以来降幅最大的一次。担心希腊公投影响可能是股市下降的部分原因，但是中国股价下跌仍是投资者担心的问题。中国大陆是香港最大的贸易伙伴。

On the mainland, stock price measures were mixed. The Shanghai stock exchange index rose over two percent after many days of declining prices.

在中国大陆，股价指数涨跌互现。上证指数在连日下跌后上涨超过2%。

The recent drop in Chinese stock prices is the sharpest in 20 years. Shares on Chinese markets have lost more than 20 percent of their value -- or $3trillion dollars -- since June 12.

中国股市下降是20年来降幅最为凶猛的一次。中国股票市值自6.12号以来已下降20%，损失额达到3万亿美元。

Financial experts say smaller investors are fleeing the stock market and investing in housing and other real estate.

金融专家称小投资商已撤出股市，转而投资房地产业。

On Saturday, a group of 21 brokerage companies said it would use $19billion to buy shares in an effort to support stock prices. The move issupported by money borrowed from China’s central bank.

周六，21个经纪公司表示愿意出资190亿美元拯救股市。这笔资金来自中国中央银行。

But any efforts to support prices are small in comparison to the total value of the current loses. Tony Nash is an economist working in Singapore.

然而，任何拯救股市的行为相对于目前大幅度降幅来说都是杯水车薪。托尼·纳什是新加坡的一位经济学家，他表示，

“You can’t inject 120 (yuan) billion every weekend. The markets lostsomething like $3 trillion over the last couple of months -- that that’s a drop in the bucket compared to what would be needed to prop that market up.”

你不可能每周末都诸如120亿美元。在过去的几个月中，股市跌了近3万亿美元。相对于支撑起整个市场，注入资金只是杯水车薪。

Falling stock prices also have discouraged new stock offerings. Nearly 30Chinese companies have postponed their first stock sale to the public. Thestock value decline reverses a year of strong gains for Chinese stocks, whichmore than doubled in value over the period.

股市下降还影响新股上市。中国近30家公司推迟了他们第一支股票出售时间。股市下跌扭转了中国股市之前的强势局面，那时中国币值增加一倍以上。

Scott Kennedy is with the Centers for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. He said, in the past, the stock market represented only a smallpart of China’s economy. Now, that has changed. Still, he believes the countrywill reach its goal of seven percent economic growth this year.

斯科特·肯尼迪来自华盛顿的国际数据研究中心。他表示，过去股市仅仅是中国市场的一小部分，现在情况变了。他相信，中国今年仍然能达到增长七个百分点的增长目标。

I’m Mario Ritter.

马里奥·利特为您报道。

This story is based on reporting from VOA’s Steve Herman and VictorBeattie. Mario Ritter wrote it for VOA Learning English. George Grow was theeditor.

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Words in This Story

index– n. a way of measuring the value of a group of securities or stocks

brokerage(s) –n. a company that trades in stocks and other financialinstruments or securities

discouraged– adj. to get in the way of or to prevent from taking place

a drop in the bucket– idiom an addition so small that it does not have an effect