英语新闻听写 美国房屋销售创三年新低

 

According to Reuters, U.S. home sales tumbled to their lowest level in three years in December and house price increases slowed sharply,

据路透社(Reuters)报道，12月，美国房屋销售跌至三年来最低水平，房价增幅大幅放缓。

suggesting a further loss of momentum¹ in the housing market.

这意味着房地产市场将进一步失去动力。

The weak report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) on Tuesday also suggested the economy was slowing.

周二，全国房地产商协会(NAR)公布的报告亦表明经济正在放缓。

A month-long partial shutdown of the federal government, which has delayed data from the Commerce Department is, however, making it difficult to get a good read of the economy.

然而，联邦政府近一个月的部分政府停摆推迟了美国商务部(Commerce Department)的数据发布，这使得人们很难对经济有一个良好的解读。

1 momentum   

n.动力，冲力，势头；动量

参考例句：

• We exploit the energy and momentum conservation laws in this way.我们就是这样利用能量和动量守恒定律的。
• The law of momentum conservation could supplant Newton's third law.动量守恒定律可以取代牛顿第三定律。