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Time1 1:37 Words 283 Although many prospected the banking industry will fall in this century, it actually is soaring.
Time2 1:36 Words 249 The banks experienced an unusual expanding before the financial crisis in 2008.
Time3 1:34 Words 232 The causes of the expanding include not only positive factors, such as increase in global businesses, but also negative ones, such as risk-taking regulations and loose monetary policy.
Time4 1:24 Words 244 Experts found out that although fundamental increase were part of the expanding of the balance-sheet of banks, the growth of these financial products was less than the growth of banks.
Time5 2:11 Words 379 Most of the bankers, however, expect the industry to keep grow with, or even faster than the world GDP, despite the recent decrease after 2008.
Time6 4:30 Words 837 By analyzing the trends in the world economic and bank products, the newspaper says the profit of investment banks will not return to the recent peak in the near future.
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问题:感觉第四段自己理解不是很准确,看了大家的summary觉得尤其如此 问题发现:没有理解到的关键词汇替换 inflated the size of the financial sector = spurred economic growth = drive economic growth = a larger financial system goes hand in hand with higher productivitygrowth
问题解决:我认为第四段的含义应该是although expanding of the banking industry drive economic growth,the fundamental financial products, which considered to be the base of finance,only constitutepart of the expanding.
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Most of the finance the expanding banksprovided, and the innovations they fostered(孕育), spurred(鼓动;刺激) economic growth, but a good chunk(很大一部分) of it just inflated(通涨的) the size of the financialsector as banks created ever more securities(有价证券) to buy and sell from one another.
Most bankers bristle(愤怒) when asked whether the finance industry is already big enough inrelation to the rest of the economy.
Widely considered the pinnacle(顶峰) of effective bank regulation, these had aimed to calibrate(校准) precisely the amount of capital that banks had to hold against theprobability of each loan defaulting(到期不还款). Yet they unwittingly encouraged banks to hold vast quantitiesof “risk-free” assets that turned out to be anything but.
This is cyclical(周期的) and will change in time, but the downturn is proving more protracted(时间长的) than most bankers expected. |