英文财经报道特点

时间:2008-06-11 01:18:18

(单词翻译:单击)

为了突出新闻报道的及时性和全面性,记者需要在尽快短的时间内发出尽量多的消息。因此,由于没有太多的时间进行语言上的推敲,所以英文财经报道中的句子偏长,结构比较松散,插入成分也通常比较多。

例如:

"…World Bank Managing Director Richard Frank said in a statement that the $52 billion international rescue package assembled by the Clinton administration--which includes $17 billion from the International Monetary1 Fund--would meet Mexico's short-term financial crisis, which blew up after the government devalued the peso in December."

…世界银行行长理查德·弗兰克在一项声明中说,由美国克林顿政府组织筹集的520亿美元的国际援助贷款,其中包括国际货币基金组织提供的170亿美元贷款,将用于解决墨西哥目前面临的短期金融危机;这次危机是由于墨西哥政府在12月将墨西哥比索贬值后而引发的。

这一句子中有同位语、插入语及定语从句,这些成分都是为了补充说明相关的情况和消息。
  
其次,由于发稿时间紧迫,临时插入的从句省略了连接词,显得与主句的关系不够紧凑。有口语化的特点。

例如:

"The time for release of the statistics, normally in the afternoon, was moved up to 8:50 a.m.., ministry2 officials said, to allow Japanese markets to react first to the numbers, as is the practice in most industrialized countries."

日本官员说,原本在下午公布的经济数据将提前到上午8:50公布,是为了让日本国内市场首先对这些数据作出反应,这也是许多工业化国家采取的惯例。

这句话中的定语从句"normally in the afternoon"="which is normally in the afternoon",同位语"as is the practice in most industrialized countries"=as that it is the practice in most industrialized countries",连接词的省略使得句子更倾向于口语的表达方式。 

另外,财经报道经常涉及各类经济数据、市场价格及其它有关的统计数字,这些数据之间的比较或参照是财经报道的重要组成部分。因此,比较结构在英文财经报道的句型中占有很大的比例。

例如:

以less/higher/lower/narrower/smaller等连接的不对等比较:

That was smaller than the $5.6 billion surplus economists3 had predicted.
比经济人士预测的56亿美元逆差少。

March Cotton closed 0.46 cent lower at 85.30 cent.
三月份棉花期货收市下降0.46美分,报85.30美分。  
  
以highest/record high/lowest等连接的最高级比较:

The Bundesbank cut its discount rate 3.5%, the lowest level in seven years.
德意志联邦银行将利率下调到七年来最低的3.5%。

The number of workers in the United States applying for state unemployment benefits rose to the record high level in more than a month.
美国申请失业救济金的工人人数一个多月来上升到历史最高点
  
以against/opposite/compare/contrast等连接的数据对比:

Export surplus was 72.54 billion francs, compared with 47.71 billion francs in the same period a year earlier.
与去年同期477.1亿法朗相比,出口顺差为725.4亿法朗。

The December T-bond futures4 ended today at 117-13/32 in Tokyo market against its previous closing of 117-11/32.
东京市场十二月份国债期货合约今天收盘报117-13/32,而昨天收盘报117-11/32。


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1 monetary pEkxb     
adj.货币的,钱的;通货的;金融的;财政的
参考例句:
  • The monetary system of some countries used to be based on gold.过去有些国家的货币制度是金本位制的。
  • Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。
2 ministry kD5x2     
n.(政府的)部;牧师
参考例句:
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
3 economists 2ba0a36f92d9c37ef31cc751bca1a748     
n.经济学家,经济专家( economist的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
  • Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 futures Isdz1Q     
n.期货,期货交易
参考例句:
  • He continued his operations in cotton futures.他继续进行棉花期货交易。
  • Cotton futures are selling at high prices.棉花期货交易的卖价是很高的。

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