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2020考研英语时事阅读:委内瑞拉货币“新举措”

时间:2019-06-17 15:27:19 编辑:leichenchen

       考研英语时事阅读的每日积累,对备考2020考研考生,在阅读水平提升方面有很大的作用!下面,北京文都考研网小编整理2020考研英语时事阅读:委内瑞拉货币“新举措”,供考生参考。

2020考研英语时事阅读:委内瑞拉货币“新举措”

【原文节选】

Puerto Ordaz was once Venezuela’s industrial hub, a modernist dream of broad boulevards and ranks of factories and gateway to a belt of rich oilfields that funded government largesse for decades. As the economy has crumbled though, the modern city of steel and aluminium has been swallowed by its past, transformed into little more than an outpost of the gold mines a few hours’ drive away in the fringes of the Amazon.

There, in swampy, malaria-ridden pits controlled by criminal gangs, men labour away much as they would have done centuries ago. The lumps of yellow metal they extract through backbreaking work now power the city; gold has become so pervasive that medieval-style barter is replacing hard currency across the city.

The men who dig for gold – and it is all men, women only work as cooks or in brothels at the mines – include professionals whose jobs were engulfed by the crisis or whose salaries have been eroded by hyperinflation to levels that will buy them a few loaves of bread, or perhaps a bag of rice.

文本选自:The Guardian(卫报)

作者:Emma Graham-Harrison and Clavel Rangel in Puerto Ordaz

 

【重点单词】

fuel

英 [ˈfju:əl] 美 [ˈfjuəl]

n.燃料; (为身体提供能量的)食物; (维持、增加感情的)刺激物; 竞选提神(或兴奋)剂(一种健怡可乐,饮用后能使人精力充沛地从事竞选活动)

vt.给…加燃料,给…加油; 激起;

vi.补充燃料;

anarchy

英 [ˈænəki] 美 [ˈænərki]

n.混乱; 无秩序; 无政府状态;

largesse

[lɑ:ˈʒes]

n.慷慨赠与的钱或物;

crumble

英 [ˈkrʌmbl] 美 [ˈkrʌmbəl]

vt.把…弄成碎屑; 弄碎;

vi.破碎,破裂; 碎成粉末; 瓦解; 崩裂

n.碎屑,面包屑; 已崩溃的东西; 瓦砾堆;

【参考翻译】

Puerto Ordaz曾经是委内瑞拉的工业中心,是现代主义的梦想,拥有宽阔的林荫大道和工厂,以及通往富裕油田的门户,这些油田为政府的慷慨资助提供了数十年的资金支持。随着经济的崩溃,现代钢铁和铝的城市已被其过去所吞噬,转变为几小时车程外亚马逊边缘的一座金矿场的驻扎点。

在那里,犯罪团伙控制的潮湿、疟疾肆虐的矿井里,工人们像几个世纪前一样辛勤劳作。他们通过艰苦劳动提炼出的黄色金属块在为这座城市提供动力;黄金已变得如此普遍,以至于整个城市都在用中世纪风格的易货交易取代硬通货。

挖黄金的人全都是男人,包括专业人士,女人只能做厨子或者在矿场做娼妓,他们不是工作被危机所吞没,就是工资因恶性通货膨胀而被侵蚀到收入只能够买几条面包或者一袋米。

       以上是北京文都考研网给出的2020考研英语时事阅读:委内瑞拉货币“新举措”,希望上述内容对2020考研学子在英语能力提升方面有所帮助!祝2020考研必胜!

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