本期內(nèi)容:
Oil fell by the most since 1991 on Monday after Saudi Arabia started a price war with Russia by slashing its selling prices and pledging to unleash its pent-up supply onto a market reeling from falling demand because of the coronavirus outbreak.
Brent crude futures fell by as much as 31.5%, to $31.02 a barrel.
That was the biggest percentage drop since Jan. 17, 1991, at the start of the first Gulf War.
slash the price: 大幅度降價
• slash the cost/labor: 大幅度削減成本/裁員
pledge v. 承諾(promise)
unleash vt. 發(fā)泄
pent-up: 被壓抑的,積壓已久的
• unleash one’s pent-up…onto sb./sth. 把積壓已久的某種情緒發(fā)泄到某人/某事上
reel from sth./doing sth. 因為……而蹣跚/踉蹌
• He was reeling from drinking.
他喝多了,走路都飄。
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