VOA慢速英语听力 ECONOMICS REPORT（WORD文本）：TWO-AMERICAN.doc

1、This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.这里是美国之音慢速英语经济报道。Two American professors will share the twenty eleven Nobel Prize in economics. Staffan Normark, Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announced the winners this week.两名美国教授2011年度诺贝尔经济学奖，瑞典皇家科学院常务次官斯塔凡诺马克（Staffan

2、 Normark）本周宣布获奖者名单。STAFFAN NORMARK: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, 2011, to Professor Thomas J. Sargent at New York University, New York, USA and Professor Christopher A. Sims at Princeton Univers

3、ity, Princeton, USA.诺马克：“瑞典皇家科学院决定，将2011年纪念阿尔弗雷德诺贝尔瑞典银行经济学奖颁发给美国纽约大学的托马斯萨金特教授(Thomas J Sargent)以及美国普林斯顿大学的克里斯托弗西姆斯教授(Christopher A. Sims)。”Professors Sims and Sargent are both sixty-eight years old. They are being honored for work they did in the nineteen seventies and eighties. But their research h

4、as been and remains important to economic policy in many countries. This is especially true in a time when debt in Europe and other problems around the world have hurt economic growth.西姆斯和萨金特教授均为38岁，他们在上世纪70和80年代的研究使他们获此荣誉。他们的研究已对许多国家经济政策的制定起到重要作用，未来也是如此。尤其是当下欧洲债务和全球其他问题困扰着经济发展。The Nobel committee r

5、ecognized the two professors for their work in showing how policy decisions can affect the health of economies. Both men have studied how actions, like raising interest rates or cutting taxes, affect things like economic growth and inflation.诺贝尔委员会认为这两名教授的研究展示了经济政策如何影响经济健康。两人都研究了提高利率或削减税收等政策会如何影响经济增

6、长和通货膨胀等问题。Professor Sargent studied periods of high inflation in several European countries in the nineteen hundreds. His work suggested that it was important for governments and central banks to keep inflation low and interest rates stable.萨金特教授研究了20世纪90年代几个欧洲国家高通胀的几个时期，研究表明，保持低通胀和利率稳定对政府和央行至关重要。Pr

7、ofessor Sims suggested a new way of studying economic information over time. He has used a tool of economic analysis, called a vector auto-regression model. Such models provide ways to examine issues like whether growth in the money supply helps to predict inflation.西姆斯教授提出了一种研究临时变动经济信息的新方式。他使用了一个被称

8、为“向量自回归模型”的经济分析工具。该模型提供了一些衡量例如货币供应量增长是否有助于预测通胀一类问题的方法。Christopher Sims told reporters by telephone why his work and the work of Thomas Sargent is so important today.克里斯托弗西姆斯通过电话告诉记者，为何他和托马斯萨金特的研究在当今如此重要。CHRISTOPHER SIMS: I think the methods that I have used and Tom has developed are central to findi

9、ng our way out of this mess. I think they point to a way to try to unravel why our serious problems develop and new research using these methods may help us lead us out of it.西姆斯：“我认为，我俩的研究方法都聚焦于从烂摊子中找到我们的出路。这些方法指出了一条试图阐明我们面临的严重经济问题为什么会扩大的道路。使用这些方法的新研究可能有助于带领我们走出困境。”Professors Sargent and Sims will

10、share prize money worth about one point five million dollars. The prize is officially known as the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. It was first given in nineteen sixty-nine and is the only Nobel Prize not established by Alfred Nobel.萨金特和西姆斯教授分享150万美元奖金，诺贝尔经济学奖的全名是纪念阿尔弗雷德诺贝尔瑞典银行经济学奖。该奖首次颁发是在1969年，是唯一一个不是由阿尔弗雷德诺贝尔设立的诺贝尔奖。