商务英语阅读答案CHAPTER1-4

商务英语阅读答案1

Chapter 1

Exercise one

Answer the questions according to the text.

Trade will top the EU’s agenda at this summit.

Hillary Clinton has promised to review trade agreements every five years and amend them where necessary.

The agreement is about putting a textile-import monitoring system in place for 2008 to replace the annual cap imposed on imported Chinese textiles since 2005.

China Investment Corp is a sovereign wealth fund.

They are not sure about how the fund will operate…

The uuropean Council, the European omission, the European Parliament

“Institutional-complexity issue” refers to the following problems:

the member states do not always agree;

there is also policy disagreement among the EU’s various institutions;

even within one institutions, its various departments may also find themselves in disputt. EU’s self-imposed obstacles:

the institutional complexity

the absence of a central authority

fickle priorities

“Fickle priorities” means one is changeable about what is the most important or the focus shouldbe.

“Hackles” means anger. A meeting in September between Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany, and Tibet’s exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, brought about anger in China.

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3. phrase translation

1) E-C translation

bilateral relationship 双边关系

Euro zone 欧元区

Sovereign wealth fund 主权财富基金

Trade agreement 贸易协定

Trade bill 贸易法案

Raise hackles 惹怒

Economic relation 经济关系

Exchange rate 汇率

Monetary policy 货币政策

Heat up 升温

2）C-E translation

国际收支经常项目顺差 current account surpluses

竞选运动 election campaign

成员国 member states

除…以外 aside from

出口紧贴 export subsidies

消费者感知 consumer perception