slashed rates的意思|示意

South Africans remain reluctant to spend, despite the Reserve Bank having slashed interest rates by five percentage points since December.

尽管央行自12月起大幅降息5个百分点，南非人仍然不愿意支出。

The leaders of the euro zone had extended the maturities and slashed the interest rates on rescue loans, helping the three bailed-out countries.

欧元区各国领导人同意三个受援国延后偿还到期债务，并降低救援贷款利息，以提供帮助。

So grim, in fact, that on November 26th the People’s Bank of China slashed rates by more than a percentage point-the most in 11 years-to boost growth.

事实上正是因为这个原因，11月26日中国人民银行宣布降息一个百分点还多-这是11年来最大的一次降息-以刺激经济。

By the end of 2008 the Federal Reserve, the ECB and the Bank of England had slashed official interest rates.

在2008年末，美联储、欧洲央行和英国银行已经削减了官方利率。

Meanwhile, the Bank of Japan slashed rates to ward off an export decline, and stoke up more domestic demand.

同时，日本央行削减利率以避免出口下滑，并激发更多内需。

That is most true of the Fed, which slashed rates between 2001 and 2003, held them at 1% for a year and then raised them in slow, predictable quarter-point steps, fuelling the housing boom.

这一批评对美联储来说恰如其分：它在2001年至2003年间持续降息，使利率低到1%并维持了一年，然后一成不变地以每季度四分之一个百分比的速度缓缓加息，这无疑是对房市繁荣火上加油。