夏说英语新闻晨读 第258期:高盛银行两头跑

 本期内容：
A "significant¹" Brexit transitional deal should be agreed as soon as possible, the chief executive² of Goldman Sachs International has said. This is to stop jobs being moved from the UK to Europe, Richard Gnodde told the BBC. At the moment he is spending money every day putting Brexit contingency³ plans into action. Goldman Sachs employs 6,500 people in the UK and its Brexit contingency plans involve adding hundreds of staff to their European offices - mainly in Frankfurt and Paris - to ensure they can continue to serve their EU-based customers after the UK leaves the EU. He expects London to remain a very important financial center but said that Frankfurt and Paris were competing hard to woo banks, with Paris in particular more attractive since the election⁴ of the business-friendly Emmanuel Macron.

Transitional: 过渡的
Contingency plan: 应急计划
Woo: 招揽
Business-friendly:重视商业的

1 significant   

adj.相当数量的；意义重大的；意味深长的

参考例句：

• Your success today may be significant for your whole future.你今天的成功对你的整个未来可能是重要的。
• She cast him a significant smile.她向他投去意味深长的一笑。

2 executive   

adj.执行的，行政的；n.执行者，行政官，经理

参考例句：

• A good executive usually gets on well with people.一个好的高级管理人员通常与人们相处得很好。
• He is a man of great executive ability.他是个具有极高管理能力的人。

3 contingency   

n.意外事件，可能性

参考例句：

• We should be prepared for any contingency.我们应该对任何应急情况有所准备。
• A fire in our warehouse was a contingency that we had not expected.库房的一场大火是我们始料未及的。

4 election   

n.选举，选择权；当选

参考例句：

• There is no doubt but that he will win the election.毫无疑问，他将在竞选中获胜。
• The government will probably fall at the coming election.在即将到来的大选中，该政府很可能要垮台。