Higher interest rates have brought America’s bankers both ruin and riches. Less than a year ago rising rates caused Silicon Valley Bank and then First Republic to fail， the largest bank collapses since 2008. Yet on January 12th JPMorgan Chase reported its seventh consecutive quarter of record net-interest income. One reason the crisis did not spread in 2023 is that the Federal Reserve contained it with a new—and generous-loan programme. Unfortunately， that has come at a cost that the Fed should have foreseen. Thanks to another turn in the interest-rate outlook， its intervention has mutated into a free-money machine for any bank brazen enough to exploit it.
grow可以用作及物动词和不及物动词。最常见的意思是“生长，成长，长大”，它是作为不及物动词。比如：Orange trees won't grow in this climate.在这种气候下，橘子树是不长不长的。
初中英语2000个固定搭配（一）Aability to do sth 做某事的能力be able to do sth 能做某事What about ...? ……怎么样？How about ...? ……怎么样？
Our life is becoming better and better.用来表示主语继续或保持一种状况或态度，主要有keep， remain， stay， lie， stand， 例如:He always keeps silent at meeting.
it happens that / as it happens:It so happened that I had no money on me. =As it happened， I had no money on me.
10.昨晚的电视节目使我姐姐想起了两年前在山村支教的经历。The TV program last night___my sister of her___as a volunteer teacher in the mountain village two years ago.
初中英语美文欣赏：爱的传递。本文摘自中考英语真题，添加翻译，重点词汇讲解。需要电子版请留言！！！One day a man saw an old lady standing by her expensive car, clearly in need of help.
This is because he can make 72 changes to his shape and size， turning himself into different animals and objects.“限定词+whole+名词”:the whole city / my whole life。
