1. Germany's economy unexpectedly grew by 0.3% in the third quarter of the year, as high energy prices and rising interest rates dampened growth across Europe. France and Spain slowed to 0.2% growth in the same period. Earlier America's economy expanded by 2.6% in the third quarter, its strongest annualised growth rate since last year, largely due to a drop in imports and surge in exports.
๋ ์ผ ๊ฒฝ์ ๊ฐ ์์์น ๋ชปํ๊ฒ ์ฌํด 3๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์๋์ง ๊ธ์ก๊ณผ ์ ๋ฝ์ ๊ฐ๋ก์ง๋ฅด๋ ์ด์์จ๋ก 0.3% ์ฑ์ฅํ๋ค. ํ๋์ค์ ์คํ์ธ์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ๋์ 0.2% ์ ๋ ์ฑ์ฅํ๋ค. 3๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ด๋ฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ฒฝ์ ๋ 2.6% ํ์ฅ๋์๊ณ ์ด๊ฒ์ ์ง๋ํด๋ถํฐ ๋ ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ฅ ํฐ ์ฑ์ฅ๋ฅ ์ด๋ค. ์์ ์ ํฌ๊ฒ ๋จ์ด์ง๊ณ ์์ถ์ ํฐ ํ๋์ด ์ผ์๋ค.
dampen /หdæm.pษn/
v. to make something slightly wet
surge /sษหdส/
n. sudden and great increase
due to
phrase. because of
annualised /หæn.ju.ษ.laษชzd/
ad. (of an amount or number) calculated over a year
2. One year ago on Friday Mark Zuckerberg changed the name of his company from Facebook to Meta. Under that new banner just about everything has gone wrong. Earlier this year the company reported its first year-on-year drop in quarterly revenue and the first decline in users of Facebook, its social network. Investors hoped it was a blip. But on Wednesday Meta said quarterly revenue had fallen again, by 4%, and predicted it would drop in the next quarter too. In response the company’s share price plunged by nearly a quarter.
But these are mere Earthly problems. Mr Zuckerberg believes his company’s future lies in the metaverse, an online space to work, play and watch ads. Meta has spent tens of billions of dollars building it. But fewer than 200,000 people reportedly use Meta’s flagship metaverse app. One day the metaverse may take off. The question is whether Meta, which has lost more than 70% of its market value this year, will still be around then.
1๋ ์ ๊ธ์์ผ ๋งํฌ ์ฃผ์ปค๋ฒ๊ทธ๊ฐ ๊ทธ์ ํ์ฌ 'ํ์ด์ค๋ถ' ์ด๋ฆ์ '๋ฉํ'๋ก ๋ณ๊ฒฝํ๋ค. ์๋ก์ด ์ด๋ฆ ์๋ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ ๋ชป๋์ด๊ฐ๋ค. ์ฌํด ์ด ํ์ฌ ๋ณด๊ณ ์ 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ์์ต์ด ๋จ์ด์ก๊ณ ํ์ด์ค๋ถ ์ ์ ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ํ๋ค. ํฌ์์๋ค์ ์ ๊น ์ง๋๊ฐ๋ ์ผ์ด๊ธธ ํฌ๋งํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์์์ผ '๋ฉํ'๋ ๋ค์ ํ๋ฒ 4% ์์ต ๊ฐ์ํ๊ณ , ๋ค์ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฐ์ ์ญ์ ์์ํ๋ค. ์ด์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ํ์ฌ์ ์ฃผ๊ฐ๋ 4๋ถ์ 1 ๊ฐ๊น์ด ํญ๋ฝํ๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ด๊ฒ์ ์ ์ธ๊ณ ๋ฌธ์ ์ด๋ค. ๋งํฌ ์ฃผ์ปค๋ฒ๊ทธ๋ ๊ทธ์ ํ์ฌ์ ๋ฏธ๋๊ฐ ์จ๋ผ์ธ์์ ์ผํ๊ณ , ๋๊ณ ๊ด๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ ๋ฉํ๋ฒ์ค์ ๋ฌ๋ ค์๋ค๊ณ ๋ฏฟ๊ณ ์๋ค. ๋ฉํ๋ ์ด๊ฒ์ ์ํด์ 10์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐ์ผ๋ 20๋ง๋ช ๋ณด๋ค ์ ์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๋ฉํ์ ํ๋๊ทธ์ฝ ๋ฉํ๋ฒ์ค ์ฑ์ ์ฌ์ฉํ๋ค๊ณ ํ๋ค. ๋ฉํ๋ฒ์ค ์ธ๊ณ๋ ์์๋์๋ค. ๋ฌธ์ ๋ ์ฌํด 70% ์ ์์ฅ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์์ ๋ฉํ๊ฐ ์ฌ์ ํ ๊ทธ ๊ณณ์ ๋จธ๋ฌผ ๊ฒ์ธ๊ฐ์ด๋ค.
blip /blษชp/
n. a small spot of light, sometimes with a short, sharp sound
n. a temporary change that does not have any special meaning.
in response
preposition. according to
plunge /plสndส/
v. to move or fall suddenly and often a long way forward, down, or into something
mere /mษชษr/
ad. used to emphasize that something is not large or important
ad. used to emphasize how strongly someone feels about something or how extreme a situation is
earthly /หษหθ.li/
ad. happening in or relating to this world and this physical life, not in heaven or relating to a spiritual life
take off /teษชk/
phrasal verb. if an aircraft, bird, or insect takes off, it leaves the ground and begins to fly
take sth off
to remove something, especially clothes
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