2008年6月英语六级深度阅读理解PartB词汇注释.pdfVIP

asset [?set] Section BPassage One n. 资产；优点；有用的东西； Imagine waking up and finding the value of yourassets has 有利条件 been halved. No, you ’re not an investor in one of thosehedge halve [h ɑ? v] vt. 二等分；把……减半 funds that failed completely. With the dollar slumping to a 26-year hedge [hed ?] n. 树篱；障碍 low against the pound, already-expensive London has become vi. 用树篱围住；避免作正面答 quite unaffordable. A coffee at Starbucks, just asunavoidable in 复 vt. 用树篱笆围住；避免作正面 England as it is in the United States, runs about $8. slump [sl ?mp] n. 衰退；暴跌；消沉 vt. 使降低；使衰落；使倒下 The once all-powerful dollar isn ’t doing a Titanic against just vi. 下降，衰落；倒下 the pound. It is sitting at a record low against the euro and at a unaffordable [, ?n?f?:d? bl] 30-year low against the Canadian dollar. Even the Argentine peso adj. 买不起的 unavoidable [ ?n? v??d?b(?)l] and Brazilian real arethriving against the do