先说一下 “ = ” 在英语里怎么说，= 一般用 is 或 equals或 makes 来表示【加法】+号 在英语里一般用这三个：①and ②plus ③add例：Seven and / plus eight makes fifteen.7加8等于15。
Just a year ago the world’s economists were celebrating a rapid rebound from recession. Now they are worrying that the next downturn could be looming. In America the Federal Reserve is preparing to do battle with high inflation by raising interest rates sharply and shrinking its balance-sheet. In Europe expensive energy is sapping consumers of spending power and making factories costlier to run. And in China an outbreak of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus has led the authorities to impose the strictest lockdowns since the start of the pandemic.
如此一来，咱们就可以完整地翻译为:to ease the burden of excessive homework and off-campus tutoring for students undergoing compulsory education。
本期节目内容简介在本期节目中，我们来比较近义词 reduce 和 decrease的区别，虽然二者都可以做不及物动词，指事物的数量、强度和程度变小的过程，却表示不同的含义。首先，reduce 后通常接宾语，而 decrease 后无宾语。
在这几年的翻译生涯中，特别是在翻译报告等涉及大量数据的时候，常常遇到表达数字“上涨、下跌、持平”等情况。其实表示这类意思的词非常多。昨天上午，我在英语共学社群里抛出这个问题，大家随即帮我整理了很多同义词、近义词。
