disservice(n) : ill service; harm; an unhelpful, unkind, or harmful act; an act intended to help that turns out badly.
(v): to provide inadequate or faulty service to.
EX:If you had the misfortune of investing in an index fund, more than a decade's worth of investments have been wiped out. But the myopic focus on just how market indexes have done does some a disservice.
2009年3月4日 星期三
2009年1月12日 星期一
made all too clear
made all too clear:昭然若揭
EX:As Friday's abysmal jobs report made all too clear, Wall Street's whirlwind holiday romance has ended. Investors are back to reality.
EX:As Friday's abysmal jobs report made all too clear, Wall Street's whirlwind holiday romance has ended. Investors are back to reality.
2008年12月23日 星期二
Tally
Tally:(v.)to be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match; to make a tally; to score; to tally in a game.
(n.)the act of counting;a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely; a bill for an amount due
Tally shop: a shop at which goods or articles are sold to customers on account, the account being kept in corresponding books, one called the tally, kept by the buyer, the other the counter tally, kept by the seller, and the payments being made weekly or otherwise by agreement. The trade thus regulated is called tally trade.
EX:Palm Beach and New York may have been hardest hit by the Bernard Madoff scandal, but residents in Aspen, Colo., are quietly tallying up massive losses.
EX:For the first time in more than 18 months, the number of working oil and gas rigs in the United States surpassed last year's tally at this time, Baker Hughes Inc. said Friday.The rig count climbed by 16, to 803, compared with 797 in the comparable week a year ago. The last time the count was higher than the previous year was in the week of March 29, 1991.(The New York Times)
(n.)the act of counting;a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely; a bill for an amount due
Tally shop: a shop at which goods or articles are sold to customers on account, the account being kept in corresponding books, one called the tally, kept by the buyer, the other the counter tally, kept by the seller, and the payments being made weekly or otherwise by agreement. The trade thus regulated is called tally trade.
EX:Palm Beach and New York may have been hardest hit by the Bernard Madoff scandal, but residents in Aspen, Colo., are quietly tallying up massive losses.
EX:For the first time in more than 18 months, the number of working oil and gas rigs in the United States surpassed last year's tally at this time, Baker Hughes Inc. said Friday.The rig count climbed by 16, to 803, compared with 797 in the comparable week a year ago. The last time the count was higher than the previous year was in the week of March 29, 1991.(The New York Times)
2008年10月23日 星期四
Get breathing room
Get breathing room:獲得喘息空間.
EX:The London-Interbank Offered Rate (Libor), a key lending rate, continued its downward march with the overnight rate falling to 1.12% from 1.28% Tuesday, according to Bloomberg.com. Credit markets get breathing room.
EX:Drewry Shipping Consultants said its just-published annual review of global container ports finds the industry, which has worried for years about keeping up with demand, may have some breathing room.
EX:The London-Interbank Offered Rate (Libor), a key lending rate, continued its downward march with the overnight rate falling to 1.12% from 1.28% Tuesday, according to Bloomberg.com. Credit markets get breathing room.
EX:Drewry Shipping Consultants said its just-published annual review of global container ports finds the industry, which has worried for years about keeping up with demand, may have some breathing room.
2008年10月17日 星期五
Vicious
Vicious:having the nature or quality of vice or immorality.;dangerously aggressive.
Vicious circle(cycle):a chain of events in which the response to one difficulty creates a new problem that aggravates the original difficulty.;a situation in which effort to solve a given problem results in aggravation of the problem or the creation of a worse problem.
EX:As the credit crisis eats away at consumers' two biggest sources of investment -- housing and the stock market -- the risk is that more people will miss payments on mortgages, credit cards and car loans, and bank losses will balloon. It is that sort of vicious cycle that has led some economists to talk about the possibility of a depression.
Vicious circle(cycle):a chain of events in which the response to one difficulty creates a new problem that aggravates the original difficulty.;a situation in which effort to solve a given problem results in aggravation of the problem or the creation of a worse problem.
EX:As the credit crisis eats away at consumers' two biggest sources of investment -- housing and the stock market -- the risk is that more people will miss payments on mortgages, credit cards and car loans, and bank losses will balloon. It is that sort of vicious cycle that has led some economists to talk about the possibility of a depression.
2008年9月26日 星期五
Short-seller
Short-seller : who borrow shares and sell them in the hope of buying them back at a lower price to make a profit.
EX : Stock market regulators across the world, led by Britain and the United States, have introduced curbs on short-sellers.
EX : The Securities and Exchange Commission today took several coordinated actions to strengthen investor protections against "naked" short selling. But on Wall Street, professional short-sellers said they were being unfairly targeted by the SEC's prohibition.
EX : The regulators blamed short-sellers for the rapid decline last week in the share prices of major banks like Morgan Stanley.
EX : Stock market regulators across the world, led by Britain and the United States, have introduced curbs on short-sellers.
EX : The Securities and Exchange Commission today took several coordinated actions to strengthen investor protections against "naked" short selling. But on Wall Street, professional short-sellers said they were being unfairly targeted by the SEC's prohibition.
EX : The regulators blamed short-sellers for the rapid decline last week in the share prices of major banks like Morgan Stanley.
Hit a snag
Hit a snag (idiom) : to encounter an unexpected problem or delay,to experience a difficulty.
EX : Futures sharply lower as bailout deal hits a snag in Congress and JPMorgan buys failed Washington Mutual.
EX : Foreclosures hit a snag for lenders.
EX : Wii modchips hit a snag, won't work with some recent Wiis.
EX : Futures sharply lower as bailout deal hits a snag in Congress and JPMorgan buys failed Washington Mutual.
EX : Foreclosures hit a snag for lenders.
EX : Wii modchips hit a snag, won't work with some recent Wiis.
2008年6月29日 星期日
Rattle
Rattle(v):to make anxious and cause to lose confidence;Unnerve;to make a number of quick sharp noises like small hard objects hitting each other repeatedly..
EX:She was badly rattled by her failure in the exam.
EX:Stocks slipped Friday, with the Dow briefly crossing into bear market territory, as record-high oil prices, a weak dollar and more financial market woes rattled investors for a second session.
Rattlesnake(n):a poisonous American snake that makes a rattling noise with its tail when it is angry;Rattler.
Rattletrap(n):a noisy old vehicle,esp. a car.
EX:She was badly rattled by her failure in the exam.
EX:Stocks slipped Friday, with the Dow briefly crossing into bear market territory, as record-high oil prices, a weak dollar and more financial market woes rattled investors for a second session.
Rattlesnake(n):a poisonous American snake that makes a rattling noise with its tail when it is angry;Rattler.
Rattletrap(n):a noisy old vehicle,esp. a car.
2008年6月25日 星期三
Newsworthy
Newsworthy(adj):important or interesting enough to be reported as news.
EX: Reporters placed bets on whether The King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia would say anything newsworthy about crude oil after he called the emergency meeting.
EX: Reporters placed bets on whether The King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia would say anything newsworthy about crude oil after he called the emergency meeting.
2008年6月24日 星期二
Clobber
Clobber(v):to strike or attack severely and repeatedly;to defeat completely.
EX:I'll clobber you if you don't do what you're told.
EX:They were absolutely clobbered in the last night's game.
EX:Historically, the time to buy any stock or sector is when it has been clobbered.
EX:The bulls(investors) of Taiwan stock market have been clobbered in June 2008.
EX:I'll clobber you if you don't do what you're told.
EX:They were absolutely clobbered in the last night's game.
EX:Historically, the time to buy any stock or sector is when it has been clobbered.
EX:The bulls(investors) of Taiwan stock market have been clobbered in June 2008.
2008年6月16日 星期一
2008年6月13日 星期五
2008年6月12日 星期四
impede
impede(v):to get in the way of or slow down the movement or development;hinder.
EX:The rescue attempt was impeded by bad weather.
EX:The gloom on Wall Street were worries that the Fed's anti-inflation stance may further impede economic growth and signs of further economic weakening in the Fed's Beige Book report.
EX:The rescue attempt was impeded by bad weather.
EX:The gloom on Wall Street were worries that the Fed's anti-inflation stance may further impede economic growth and signs of further economic weakening in the Fed's Beige Book report.
2008年6月11日 星期三
pep
pep(n):keen activity and forcefulness;vigour.
EX:Put a bit more pep into your work.
EX:The manager gave his team a pep talk at half time.
EX:A holiday is just what you need to pep you up.
EX:The food tasted rather bland , so she added some spices to pep it up a little.
EX:Put a bit more pep into your work.
EX:The manager gave his team a pep talk at half time.
EX:Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's tough talk on inflation on Monday gave the greenback some pep, a welcome relief after last Friday's dollar slide sent oil to a fresh record of $139 per barrel.
pep(v):to make more active or interesting;enliven.EX:A holiday is just what you need to pep you up.
EX:The food tasted rather bland , so she added some spices to pep it up a little.
showcase
showcase(n):a glass-sided box in which objects are placed for looking at in a shop or museum.
EX:The thieves smashed the showcase and stole the vast.
EX:Her new one-woman programme is a good showcase for her talents.
EX:AUO will unveil several new technologies that will be showcased for the first time in Taiwan, such as in-cell multi-touch panels, 65-inch Full HD portrait LCD for PIDs (Public Information Display), and 52-inch TV panels with built-in third generation AMVA technology.
EX:The thieves smashed the showcase and stole the vast.
EX:Her new one-woman programme is a good showcase for her talents.
EX:AUO will unveil several new technologies that will be showcased for the first time in Taiwan, such as in-cell multi-touch panels, 65-inch Full HD portrait LCD for PIDs (Public Information Display), and 52-inch TV panels with built-in third generation AMVA technology.
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