准确性练习9-－经济专题
1. The index of leading economic indicators fell 0.3% in May. In the same month, new-home sales plunged to a 12-month low, despite the best mortgage rates in two decades.
翻译：5月份主要经济指标指数下降0.3%。同月，新房销售量跌至12个月以来的最低点，尽管抵押贷款利率达到20年来的最高点。
知识点：leading economic indicators主要经济指标
2. In one such report, Commerce said last week that its index of leading economic indicators rose a strong 1.2% in July.
翻译：商业部上周的一份报告表示，其主要经济指标指数在七月有力地上涨了1.2%。
3. “…World Bank Managing Director Richard Frank said in a statement that the ＄52 billion international rescue package assembled by the Obama administration--which includes ＄17 billion from the International Monetary Fund--would meet Mexico’s short-term financial crisis, which blew up after the government devalued the peso in December.”
翻译：“…世界银行常务董事理查德·弗兰克在一份声明中说，奥巴马政府推行的520亿美元的国际救援计划——包括国际货币基金组织的170亿美元————将解决十二月墨西哥政府使货币贬值后，墨西哥爆发短期的金融危机。”
知识点：World Bank Managing Director世界银行常务董事
devalue 贬值
4. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed this week at 2909.1, up 6.3% in the past four weeks and up 544 points, or 23%, since its October low.
翻译：道琼斯工业平均指数本周收报2909.1点，比过去四周上涨6.3%（544点），相比十月最低点上涨23%。
5. The stock market gave the flagging recovery an apparent vote of non-confidence last week when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 120 points on Friday.
翻译：上周五道琼斯工业指数暴跌120点，股市糟糕的表现说明所谓的经济复苏还没有到来。
问题：这句话如何直译？
6. March Cotton closed 0.46 cent lower at 85.30 cent.
翻译：三月份棉花收盘下跌0.46美分至85.30美分。
7. The Deutsche Bank cut its discount rate to 3.5%, the lowest level in seven years.
翻译：德意志银行将贴现率降至3.5%，这是七年来的最低水平。
知识点：discount rate贴现率
8. The number of workers in the United States applying for state unemployment benefits rose to the record high level in more than a month.
翻译：美国申请国家失业救济金的人数达到历史最高水平，这一现象已持续数月。
知识点：state unemployment benefits国家失业救济金
9. Export surplus was 72.54 billion Euros, compared with 47.71 billion Euros in the same period a year earlier.
翻译：出口顺差为725亿4000万欧元，去年同期为477亿1000万欧元。
知识点：Export surplus出口顺差
10. The December T-bond futures ended today at 117-13/32 in Tokyo market against its previous closing of 117-11/32.
翻译：十二月国债期货合约于今天以117-13/32在日本市场结束，上一次收盘为117-11 / 32。
知识点：T-bond futures国债期货
