2.27经济学人晨读-Still aloft 仍在高空
今天我们开始读《经济学人》2022.2.18的一篇经济类文章。
下面先看一看文章标题吧。
Still aloft
Inflation will be harder to bring down than markets think
aloft，指high in the air，在高空。标题意为：仍在高空，刷微博的时候看到有人翻译成“居高不下”，更通顺一点。
从描述中可以看到，这篇文章主要讲通胀问题。今天时间有限，我们先读文章的第1段。
2.27晨读Still aloft
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Given how
woefully
stock and bond
portfolios
have performed over the past year or so, you may not have noticed that financial markets are
floating
high on optimism. Yet there is no other way to describe today's investors, who since the autumn have increasingly bet that inflation, the world economy's biggest problem, will
fall away
without much fuss. The result, many think, will be cuts in interest rates towards the end of 2023, which will help the world's major economies—and most importantly America—avoid a recession. Investors are
pricing
stocks for a
Goldilocks
economy in which companies' profits grow healthily while the cost of capital falls.
内容大意：考虑到股票和债券投资组合在过去一年左右的糟糕表现，你可能还没注意到，金融市场因乐观而高涨。除此之外，没法描述如今的投资者，入秋以来，他们就更多地下注，通胀，这一全球经济的最大问题，会自己消退。很多人认为，结果是利率会削减到2023年底，帮助世界主要经济体，最主要是美国，躲过经济衰退。投资者在为“金发女孩经济”定股价，这是一种公司利润健康增长，而资本成本下降的经济状态。
表达学习：
1.
woeful
ADJ [usually before noun] very bad or serious; that you disapprove of 糟糕的；严重的；不合意的；( literary) ( formal ) very sad 悲惨的；忧伤的
例句：The economy is in a
woeful
state.
该国的经济情况糟糕透顶。
解析：除了悲伤的，woeful还有糟糕的；严重的；不合意的意思，可以用
来
替换bad, terrible, awful.
2.
portfolio
N In finance, a portfolio is the combination of investments that a particular person or company owns. 投资组合
stock and bond
portfolios
股票和债券投资组合
3.
float
V to move slowly on water or in the air 浮动;飘动;飘移/(economics) if a government floats its country's money or allows it to float , it allows its value to change freely according to the value of the money of other countries
（使货币汇率）自由浮动
原文例句：financial markets are
floating
high on optimism.
金融市场在乐观上浮动。
4.
fall away
背离；背叛；减弱；渐退
5.
price
V [usually passive] ~ sth (at sth)to fix the price of sth at a particular level 给…定价；为…作价
例句：A reasonably
priced
product.
该商品定价合理。
词块积累
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Goldilocks
金发女孩经济
指某个经济体内高增长和低通胀同时并存，而利率可保持在较低水平的经济状态。也就是既不过冷，又不过热的温和增长经济状态。
