房价

Now Americans are saving more and borrowing less because the collapse in home prices has eviscerated their wealth.

现在美国人储蓄渐多而借贷渐少，因为房价的骤跌使其财富严重缩水。

As a result, house prices may fall further before they find a bottom, exacerbating the US economic downturn.

其结果是，房价在触底前或许还会进一步下跌，从而加剧美国经济的低迷。

If one compounds that rate over ten years, they were expecting an increase of a factor of 2.5, and, if one extrapolates, a 2000-fold increase over the course of a lifetime.

照这么计算的话，10年之后的房价将是现在的2.5倍，如果用人的一生的时间来计算的话，将有2000倍的增幅。

But when inflation is factored in, home prices might not return to their 2006 peak for many years.

但是一旦考虑了通货膨胀的因素，房价在很多年之内是不可能回到2006年的高峰的。

But now that prices have flattened and, in many areas, fallen, those paths are blocked.

但现在房价已屈平坦，而且在很多地方已经下跌了，原来的做法就行不通了。

Signs of the times: government bureaucracies funding themselves by foisting debt on state-owned business enterprises; local governments raising capital by selling land at sky-high prices to corporations they own; and a People's Bank of China lavishing liquidity on the entire system in a way that makes Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke look downright stingy.

像美国几年前的房地产市场一样，中国的大开发商高度依赖低利率和不断上涨的房价。地方政府深陷这种资产泥潭。他们把出售土地作为资金来源的途径。随着中国的快速增长和城市化，城市建起大量写字楼和豪华商场。在离北京不远的天津，目前的高档办公楼大概要1/4个世纪才能全部入住。

On the other hand the low cost of credit risks fuelling a house-price boom.

另一方面，信用风险的低成机激起了房价的增长。

On the other hand the low cost of credit risks fuelling a house-price boom.

另一方面，信贷的低成本面临使房价上涨的危险。

In 2006 home prices started to drop. Houses glutted the market and stayed unsold month after month.

2006年房价开始下跌，市场上房屋供过于求，房屋日积月累销不出去。

Their worst-case scenario was even grimmer, with prices falling 22% in 2009 and 7% this year.

他们预计的最坏情况比这还要暗淡，认为2009年房价下挫22%，今年下降7%。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。