29.经济危机、金融危机英语词汇
描述经济危机的词汇：
经济危机 economic crisis/ financial crisis/ financial turmoil/financial
meltdown
经济不景气 recession/ bleeding economy/ depression/sluggish economy
萧条期 slump
失业 lose one’s job/ be unemployed/ be redundant
失业加剧 job losses mount/ unemployment climb
失业人数 jobless number
找工作 seek employment
找工作者 job seeker
严峻的就业形势 a tough job market
欠薪 withhold wage
减薪 salary cut
信心下滑 confidence slump
经济复苏 economic recovery
经济危机的影响 the crisis' fallout
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A big black bug bit a big black bear, made the big black bear bleed
blood.
A big black bug bit a big black bear. Where's the big black bear the
big black bug bit?
A bitter biting bittern bit a better brother bittern, and the bitter
better bittern bit the bitter biter back. And the bitter
bittern, bitten, by the better bitten bittern, said: "I'm a bitter biter
bit, alack!"
A bloke's back bike brake block broke.
A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuits.
A flea and a fly flew up in a flue. Said the flea, "Let us fly!" }
Said the fly, "Let us flee!" So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
A flea and a fly were trapped in a flue, and they tried to flee
for their life. The flea said to the fly "Let's flee!" and the fly said
to the flea "Let's fly!" Finally both the flea and fly managed }
to flee through a flaw in the flue.
A laurel-crowned clown!
A lusty lady loved a lawyer and longed to lure him from his
laboratory.
A noisy noise annoys an oyster.
A pleasant place to place a plaice is a place where a plaice is
pleased to be placed.
A skunk sat on a stump. The skunk thought the stump stunk, and the
stump thought the skunk stunk.
A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk,but the stump thunk
the skunk stunk.
A tidy tiger tied a tie tighter to tidy her tiny tail.
A tree toad loved a she-toad who lived up in a tree. He was a two-toed
tree toad but a three-toed toad was she. The two-toed tree
toad tried to win the three-toed she-toad's heart, for the two-toed tree
toad loved the ground that the three-toed tree toad trod. But
the two-toed tree toad tried in vain. He couldn't please her whim.
From her tree toad bower with her three-toed power the she-toad vetoed
him.
A tutor who tooted a flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to their tutor, "Is it harder to toot or to tutor two
tooters to toot?"
All I want is a proper cup of coffee made in a proper copper coffee
pot, you can believe it or not, but I just want a cup of
coffee in a proper coffee pot. Tin coffee pots or iron coffee pots are
of no use to me. If I can't have a proper cup of coffee in a
proper copper coffee pot, I'll have a cup of tea!
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts, with stoutest wrists and loudest
boasts, he thrusts his fist against the posts and still
insists he sees the ghosts.
Are our oars oak?
A Finnish fisher named Fisher failed to fish any fish one Friday
afternoon and finally he found out a big fissure in his fishing-net.
A snow-white swan swiftly to catch a slowly-swimming snake in a lake.
A writer named Wright was instructing his little son how to write
Wright right. He said: "It is not right to write Wright as
'rite'---try to write Wright aright!"
A tall eastern girl named Short long loved a big Mr. Little. But
Little, thinking little of Short, loved a little lass named Long. To
belittle Long. Short announced She would marry Little before long. This
caused Little shortly to marry Long. To make a long story
short, did tall Short love big Little less because Little loved little
Long more?
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