金融英語口語聽力教程第3課：應付通貨膨脹

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Dealing with Inflation

應付通貨膨脹

Situation 3

情景 3

Robert Albert ,president of Albert Electronics ,is talking about inflation and general financial conditions with his banker ,Wilson Hall.

艾伯特電子公司總裁羅伯特·艾伯特正和他的銀行職員威爾遜·霍爾在談論通貨膨脹和金融狀況。

Albert:I'm really concerned about the general financial situation ,Mr.Hall.

艾伯特：霍爾先生，我對于目前金融價總的狀況甚為關(guān)切。

We've been living with constantly rising prices for too long .

我們長期在物價不斷上漲的情況下生活著，

You would think that the tight money policies that the government has been following would start having some effect .

你大概認為政府所實施的銀根緊縮政策已經(jīng)開始產(chǎn)生一些效果。

Hall:I think they're starting to work ,Mr.Albert .Interest rates have gone up substantially recently ,

霍 爾：我認為這些政策已經(jīng)開始生效，艾伯特先生。近來利率已大幅度提高，

and the availability of credit has been sharply curtailed .

信貸的使用已大大削減。

Unfortunately ,however demand-pull inflation is not our only problem .

不幸的是，由需求而促成的通貨膨脹并不是我們唯一的問題。

A;Yes ,the new problem seems to be cost-push inflation ,or what the economists sometimes call sellers'inflation .

艾伯特：是的，新的問題似乎是成本促成的通貨膨脹，就是經(jīng)濟學家們有時稱之為賣方通貨膨脹。

H:Exactly .For example ,the rising costs of commodities and energy supplies over which we have no real control .

霍 爾：的確如此，譬如說，商品和能源的成本一直不斷增加，對此我們沒有得到真正的控制。

Fiscal and monetary policies can't do much to help us deal with this kind of inflation .

財政和貨幣政策對于我們解決這類性質(zhì)的通貨膨脹也是愛莫能助。

A:It must be very difficult for you as a banker to try to satisfy your customers during periods like this .

艾伯特：處于這樣的時期，你作為一個銀行家，要想盡力去滿足你的顧客們的要求肯定是很困難的。

H:Indeed it is.Tight money policies make it necessary for us to turn down loan requests from many clients or to increase the downpayment requirements on mortgage and installment loans .

霍 爾：確實如此。銀根緊縮政策使得我們必須拒絕許多客戶的貸款要求，或者增加抵押貨款和分期貸款的定金。

A:Well,let's hope we see an improvement soon.People on fixed incomes,particularly retired people,

艾伯特：我們指望著不久將看到情況有所好轉(zhuǎn)。眼下，那些靠固定收入的人們，特別是那些退休的人，

must be having a terrible time making ends meet.

為維持生計一定會碰到不少困難。