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第292期：主餐一道：泛聽練習
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一、泛聽建議：
1、完整聽一遍，掌握大意。
2、繼續聽，特別注意關鍵信息。遇到相似的詞，寫下來。
Janet Yellen was by the Senate today _1_ the first woman to head the Federal Reserve. As NPR's Johnny Stick explains Yellen gained bipartisan support.
今天，珍妮特·耶倫的提名獲得參議院的確認，成為美聯儲第一位女性主席。據NPR新聞的約翰尼·斯提克報道，耶倫得到了兩黨議員的支持。
The vote to confirm Yellen was 56 to 26 with eleven Republicans _2_ all the Democrats present to support her. Weather-related problems caused a number of members to miss the vote. Yellen _3_ to be sworn in on February 1st, the day after Ben Bernanke complete his second term as Fed chairman. As head of the Fed, Yellen will be one of the world's most powerful policymakers. But she faces significant challenges. They include winding down the Fed's unprecedented stimulus program without _4_ the economy or destabilizing the financial system. How fast to wind down the stimulus is a matter of contention on the Fed's policymaking committee that Yellen will have to manage. Johnny Stick, NPR News, Washington.
確認耶倫提名的投票以56票贊成、26票反對獲得通過，耶倫獲得了民主黨全部議員及11名共和黨議員的支持。天氣問題使得一些議員未參加投票。耶倫預計將于2月1日上任，而前一天本·伯南克將結束他擔任美聯儲主席的第二任期。作為美聯儲主席，耶倫將成為世界上最有權勢的政策決策者之一。但是她面臨著許多重大挑戰。這些挑戰包括在不損害經濟、不打破金融系統平衡的條件下逐步減少美聯儲的刺激計劃。以多快的速度縮減刺激計劃是美聯儲決策委員會爭論的焦點，而耶倫必須要解決這個問題。NPR新聞，約翰尼·斯提克華盛頓報道。
詞匯解析：
1. wind down
逐漸減小（工作規模）；使逐步停止；使逐漸關閉；
eg. School activities start winding down about two weeks before the end of term.
學期結束前兩周左右，學校的各種活動逐步減少了。
eg. The convention was winding down.
會議接近了尾聲。
eg. The bank was forced to make writedowns in its real estate investments and wind down its mortgage business.
該行被迫對其房地產投資進行減記，并收緊其抵押貸款業務。
