柏南克曾榮登時代雜誌年度風雲人物,而其前任鼎鼎大名的葛林斯潘(Greenspan)甚至被關注到帶什麼公事包都與經濟政策走向有關,其動見觀瞻可見一般!如今歐巴馬宣佈提名葉倫(Janet Yellen)為下屆聯準會主席,如果國會通過,葉倫將是美國百年來第一位女性央行總裁。在白宮官方網站「白宮部落格」(White House Blog)列出歐巴馬總統提名葉倫的理由,共有5點:
理由一:
Dr. Yellen has served in leadership positions at the Fed for more than a decade, including the last three years as Vice Chair.
歐巴馬總統認為:「葉倫曾經擔任聯準會領導階層的位子超過10年,包括最後3年的副主席。」
句中的for more than a decade是「for + 時間」,表示動作持續一段時間,動詞要用「現在完成式」,因此動詞的部份為「has served」。但是本句在國際職場與多益測驗裡最重要的是Chair這個字,它可不是「椅子」,而是chairperson這個表示「主席、總裁、總理、董事長」的精簡說法。此字原來是chairman,但是字中的「man」已不符合許多女性總裁的身份,因此現在概稱為chair或chairperson。
serve [sɝv] v. 服務、任職、上菜
理由二:
She also served previously as the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, and was a leading researcher in monetary economics at Harvard and Berkely.
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