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The European Central Bank doubled down on its negative rate policy on Thursday, meaning banks will now have to pay 0.5% interest simply for depositing much of their spare cash with it - an attempt to make them lend more to kickstart the economy. While such a policy is widely considered valid only for economies in Europe and Japan with chronically low inflation and weak growth, the idea is attracting other supporters elsewhere - not least U.S. President Donald Trump, who has labeled U.S. central bankers "boneheads" for not resorting to it.

double down on: 對某事的努力加倍；變本加厲；加倍下注
deposit vt. 放置；存放；將（錢）存入銀行
· I deposited a book on my desk.
我把一本書放在桌子上。
much of: 大部分
· I lay awake for much of the night.
我大半夜都沒睡。
spare cash: 閑置資金
· spare time: 空閑的時(shí)間
· spare room: 閑置的房間，客房
kickstart vt. 促使……開始；使（項(xiàng)目）盡快啟動(dòng)
· improve/boost/kickstart the economy: 刺激經(jīng)濟(jì)增長
chronically adv. 慢性地，習(xí)慣性地，長期地
label vt. 貼標(biāo)簽于；（尤指不公正地）把……稱為
resort vi. 訴諸；求助于；依靠
· 常用搭配: resort to sth.
· We may have to resort to using untrained staff.
我們也許只能使用未受過訓(xùn)練的員工了。

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