The housing minister, Grant Shapps, is to meet mortgage lenders to hear why they are giving first time buyers such a hard time and what they are doing to give them a better deal.
low interest rate environment 低利環境
Even if you have 20% of the deposit, it is hard for you to get the mortgage.
C2: Movie Database:
low interest rate environment 低利環境
Even if you have 20% of the deposit, it is hard for you to get the mortgage.
C2: Movie Database:
We hear from the founder and CEO of the Internet Movie Database or IMdb, Col Needham. He talks about how he built it up to become one of the world's top internet sites and how it is funded.
(1) possession of movies like Jaws (大白鯊) and Star War.
(2) There is a wikipedia element in the database.
(3) bugbear= a thing that annoys people
C3: Gilbert Deya : An update on a story we first broke in 2004 when Face the Facts discovered a South London preacher claiming he could make infertile (不孕) women pregnant through the power of prayer.
(1) child abduction: 誘拐兒童
(2) lose the high court appeal
C4: Travel to Egypt:
(1) self-contained: 自給的
(2) dicey= risky
(3) Birts, like Germans, will still book holidays on the strength of price. (在...的影響下)
C5: Store Layouts: 商店陳設:
(2) self-service: 自助的
(3) scowl = an angry expression 不悅的臉色
(4) at a knockdown price: 低廉的價格
(1) possession of movies like Jaws (大白鯊) and Star War.
(2) There is a wikipedia element in the database.
(3) bugbear= a thing that annoys people
C3: Gilbert Deya : An update on a story we first broke in 2004 when Face the Facts discovered a South London preacher claiming he could make infertile (不孕) women pregnant through the power of prayer.
(1) child abduction: 誘拐兒童
(2) lose the high court appeal
C4: Travel to Egypt:
(1) self-contained: 自給的
(2) dicey= risky
(3) Birts, like Germans, will still book holidays on the strength of price. (在...的影響下)
C5: Store Layouts: 商店陳設:
How important is the layout of stores in making you spend money? New research shows that they are a key factor in encouraging even the most hardened shoppers into submission. 使...屈服
(1) signboard: 招牌 廣告牌
(2) trolley (BrE) = cart (AmE)
(3) straw poll (BrE)= straw poll (AmE) 非正式民意調查
C6: Film Distribution:
C7: Customer Satisfaction:
Customer service in the UK is often vilified (=maligned) (中傷毀謗) but a recent survey suggests it is getting better.
(1) There is no room for complacency. (不容自滿) (1) signboard: 招牌 廣告牌
(2) trolley (BrE) = cart (AmE)
(3) straw poll (BrE)= straw poll (AmE) 非正式民意調查
C6: Film Distribution:
Often individual films are released at different times around the world. We discuss whether it would be possible to get them released everywhere at the same time.
discrepancy in the release time C7: Customer Satisfaction:
Customer service in the UK is often vilified (=maligned) (中傷毀謗) but a recent survey suggests it is getting better.
(2) self-service: 自助的
(3) scowl = an angry expression 不悅的臉色
(4) at a knockdown price: 低廉的價格
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