#新闻晨读# 第3035天
【雅思托福长难句】
句子长度:57个单词
句子分析:
1. 结构:
- 主句:“Fed leaders have long been criticized as slow to act absent compelling data showing them something needs to be done”,“Fed leaders”是主语,“have long been criticized”是谓语,“as slow to act...”是主语补足语,补充说明被批评的内容。
- 让步状语从句:“Whether it was Arthur Burns keeping rates too low in the face of the stagflation threat during the 1970s, Alan Greenspan not responding quickly enough to the dotcom bubble in the ’90s, or Ben Bernanke’s dismissal of the subprime housing prices as ‘contained’ and not lowering rates prior to the 2008 financial crisis”,列举了三位美联储领导人在不同时期的行为,用“whether...or...”连接,作让步状语,表明无论在哪种情况下,主句的情况都成立。
2. 词汇:
- “stagflation”:滞胀。
- “dotcom bubble”:互联网泡沫。
- “subprime housing prices”:次级住房价格。
- “dismissal”:驳回;不考虑。
- “contained”:控制住的;包含的。
3. 大意:无论是20世纪70年代面对滞胀威胁时阿瑟·伯恩斯将利率维持在过低水平,还是90年代艾伦·格林斯潘对互联网泡沫反应不够迅速,又或是2008年金融危机前本·伯南克认为次级住房价格“可控”而不降低利率,长期以来,美联储领导人一直因在缺乏令人信服的数据表明需要采取行动之前行动迟缓而受到批评。@微博教育 #雅思##托福##英语[超话]#
