国外媒体:IMF悲观展望世界经济;Apple一季度盈利增加

国际货币基金组织预计，今年全球经济将下滑1.3%，失业率会持续上升。

The International Monetary¹ Fund has again downgraded its forecast for the world economy. It's predicted a decline of 1.3% this year and a continued rising unemployment. The IMF's chief economist² Olivier Blanchard said things were very bad, but said without recent government action to boost spending and tackle the banking³ crisis, they could've been catastrophic.

"Fiscal⁴ policies have made a gigantic difference. Our estimate is that if there had been no fiscal stimulus⁵ across the world, world growth in 2009 would be somewhere between 1.5% and 2% less than what we predicted. Therefore we would be in the middle of something very close to depression."

与此同时，苹果公司汇报了高达15%的第一季度盈利增长。

The American technology company Apple has reported a rise in its quarterly profit of 15% despite the global economic downturn. Apple's net income from January to March exceeded market expectations at more than 1.2 billion dollars. Sales were up nearly 9% with the iPhone selling twice as well as a year ago. Although sales of the Macintosh computer range were down.

World News from the BBC.

1 monetary   

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 economist   

n.经济学家，经济专家，节俭的人

参考例句：

• He cast a professional economist's eyes on the problem.他以经济学行家的眼光审视这个问题。
• He's an economist who thinks he knows all the answers.他是个经济学家，自以为什么都懂。

3 banking   

n.银行业，银行学，金融业

参考例句：

• John is launching his son on a career in banking.约翰打算让儿子在银行界谋一个新职位。
• He possesses an extensive knowledge of banking.他具有广博的银行业务知识。

4 fiscal   

adj.财政的，会计的，国库的，国库岁入的

参考例句：

• The increase of taxation is an important fiscal policy.增税是一项重要的财政政策。
• The government has two basic strategies of fiscal policy available.政府有两个可行的财政政策基本战略。

5 stimulus   

n.刺激，刺激物，促进因素，引起兴奋的事物

参考例句：

• Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
• Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。