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金融英语 floating exchange rates 和 fixed exchange rates，浮动汇率与固定汇率1 Reserve Bank 储备银行2 cushion 缓冲垫，减震器3 intervene 干预4 contention 辩论5 on balance 总的来说6 overshooting 过火，过激7 peg 固定，钉住8 pegged exchange rate 固定汇率9 tendency 趋势10 accumulate 积累11 lo and behold 看哪！瞧！1 central bank 中央银行2 reserve bank 储备银行3 deregulation 解除管制4 globalisation 全球化5 regulator 管理者，调整者6 administrator 管理人7 exclusive 专门的，专有的，排他的8 vitally important 极其重要的9 lender of last resort 最后贷款者，为其它银行提供贷款的银行，这是中央银行的职能之一10 commercial banks 商业银行11 liquid assets 流动资产，指可以迅速变成现金而不会有价值损失或损失较小的资产12 bail out 帮助摆脱困境1 comparative advantage 相对优势 2 living standard 生活水平3 social problems 社会问题4 instability 不稳定，动荡5 average industrial wages 平均行业工资6 decline 下降，衰落7 facilitate 推进，促进8 impediment 妨碍，障碍9 substantial 实质性的，重要的金融世界 第十九讲 下载地址 在上一讲中我们谈的话题是：globalisation－经济的全球化。澳大利亚墨尔本莫纳什大学的市场学系主任菲茨罗伊教授介绍说，通讯和交通运输费用的降低是促进经济全球化进程的两个因素。接下来菲茨罗伊教授介绍说，生产规模的扩大和顾客品味趋于一致也是推动经济全球化的原因。他在谈话中使用了这样一些词汇：1 economies of scale 规模经济2 homogeneity 同种，同一3 cater to the need of 迎合...的需要4 barrier 障碍5 GATT 关税及贸易总协定 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 的缩写6 World Trade Organisation 世界贸易组织，简称WTO7 trade liberalisation 贸易自由化现在我们听一遍菲茨罗伊教授的这段谈话：It is true in lots of industries, large plants can make goods much cheaper than small plants. And in some industries we can see a movement towards increasing economies of scale. In other words, the minimum size of plant or the most economic size of plant is getting larger and larger.Another necessary condition for globalisation is the increasing homogeneity of consumer tastes. There are an increasing number of consumers in Brazil; who have almost precisely the same set of needs and requirements as consumers in Germany. So consequently it becomes easier for a producer to try to cater to the needs of both markets, because the market differences have now really diminished to a point where they virtually dont exist.Another explanation for globalisation is the behaviour