【每日晨读金融时报】15Aug2025 英语口语听力 附原文及实用单词短语

▸ Wall Street boos­ted by strong earn­ings and Apple invest­ment announce­ment

▸ Dol­lar slides as traders increase bets on Fed interest rate cuts

▸ Treas­ury and UK gilt yields rise as investors off­load the debt

Wall Street stocks were boos­ted yes­ter­day by strong cor­por­ate earn­ings and an invest­ment announce­ment from Apple as investors shrugged off renewed US tar­iff announce­ments from Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump.

Trump issued an exec­ut­ive order slap­ping an addi­tional 25 per cent tar­iff on India, which he said was in response to New Delhi's pur­chases of Rus­sian oil.

When the levies take effect, many Indian goods will face a total 50 per cent tax on enter­ing the US.

Nev­er­the­less, a string of upbeat announce­ments from US com­pan­ies buoyed the stock mar­ket.

The blue-chip S&P 500 index was 0.7 per cent higher by early after­noon in New York and the tech-heavy Nas­daq Com­pos­ite was up 1 per cent.

Shares in Apple rose 5.8 per cent after the White House announced that the com­pany would invest $100bn in US factor­ies as the com­pany relo­cates man­u­fac­tur­ing to avoid import tar­iffs.

McDon­ald's shares rose 2.6 per cent after sales smashed past ana­lysts' expect­a­tions.

The dol­lar fell as investors increased bets on rate cuts by the US Fed­eral Reserve, slip­ping 0.4 per cent against a bas­ket of other major cur­ren­cies.

slap

�（动词）猛然施加（通常用于惩罚或规定）；扇，拍；（名词）巴掌、一击

在政治或财经语境中，常指“强行施加制裁、关税、规则”等。
例句：
The US slapped sanctions on the company for violating trade rules.
（美国因其违反贸易规则，对这家公司实施了制裁。）

日常用法中指“打某人一巴掌”：
She slapped him across the face.
（她扇了他一巴掌。）

take effect

� 生效；开始起作用（固定短语）

通常用于法律、政策、药物等开始发挥作用的时间点。
例句：
The new law will take effect next month.
（新法律将于下个月生效。）
The medicine took effect within an hour.
（这药一小时内就起效了。）

buoyed

� 被鼓舞、被支撑；情绪或价格被提振（动词过去分词，源自“buoy” 浮标）

常用于财经或情绪语境中，表示受到某种利好推动而上升或变得积极。
例句：
The stock was buoyed by strong earnings reports.
（这只股票因强劲的财报而上涨。）
She felt buoyed by the support of her friends.
（在朋友们的支持下，她感到受鼓舞。）