From the Federal Reserve to Wall Street, there’s a scramble to find new high frequency data to map the destruction in real time and help guide the salvage effort, which means one lesson of this crisis ought to be that it’s not just pandemics you need to prepare better for, it’s the rapid recessions that come with them. When the world’s leading central bankers dialed in to a conference call in early March for the regular bimonthly meeting of the Bank for International Settlements, some of them were already complaining that they were flying blind because of the inevitable lag in economic data.

思考题：

According to the author, the crisis has revealed us that___.

A.leading central bankers are incompetent

B.experts have access to quality statistics

C.pilots are able to fly without instruments

D.existing statistical tools are inadequate

词汇突破：

the Federal Reserve ：美联储

scramble：争，抢，艰难的行走/攀爬

high frequency data 高频数据

map 做动词(反映)

destruction 破坏情况

in real time 实时

salvage effort 抢救工作，纾困工作

pandemics 疫情

recessions 衰退

dial in to a conference call 接入电话会议

the Bank for International Settlements 国际清算银行(BIS)

the regular bimonthly meeting 两月一次的例会

flying blind 盲飞

the inevitable lag 不可避免的滞后

句子解析：

句：

From the Federal Reserve to Wall Street,(状语) there’s a scramble to find new high frequency data /to map the destruction in real time and help guide the salvage effort, which means one lesson of this crisis ought to be that(定语从句)+表语从句 (it’s not just pandemics you need to prepare better for, it’s the rapid recessions that come with them.)

切分：

1.From the Federal Reserve to Wall Street,(状语)

2.主干：there’s a scramble

3.定语 to find new high frequency data

4.目的状语/to map the destruction in real time and help guide the salvage effort,

5.定语从句：which means one lesson of this crisis ought to be that(定语从句)+

6.表语从句 1(it’s not just pandemics you need to prepare better for,

7.表语从句2it’s the rapid recessions that come with them.)

参考译文：从美联储到华尔街，人们争先恐后地寻找新的高频数据，以实时反映破坏情况，并帮助指导纾困工作。这意味着这场危机的教训之一是，你需要更好准备应对的不仅有流行病，还有随之而来的快速衰退。

第二句：

When the world’s leading central bankers dialed in to a conference call in early March for the regular bimonthly meeting of the Bank for International Settlements, (状语)some of them were already complaining that+宾语从句 they were flying blind/ because of the inevitable lag in economic data(原因状语).

参考译文：三月初，全球主要央行的银行家们拨打电话会议，参加国际清算银行(BIS)两月一次的例会之时，其中一些人已经抱怨道，由于经济数据不可避免的滞后，他们现在“全凭感觉”。

思考题解析：

According to the author, the crisis has revealed us that___.

A. leading central bankers are incompetent

(主要央行行长都不称职)

这个也没有谈及啊!

咱不能见到官员就怼啊!

A选项错误。

B. experts have access to quality statistics

(专家可以获取高质量的统计数据)

文章没有谈及!

这个也不符合主题

这个选项要是对了，那这篇文章就是想说专家很厉害呗。

但是显然这盘文章的主题不是这个啊。

B选项错误。

C. pilots are able to fly without instruments

(飞行员可以在没有仪器的情况下飞行)

这个就是胡编乱造的选项了。

选了就是对你自己的冒犯了。

C选项错误。

D. existing statistical tools are inadequate

(现有的统计工具不充分)

你们有没有发现：不充分，不够，不足!这也是正确答案的特征!

因为考研的文章通常讨论的话题就是一些不完美的东西，如果完美就不会再谈论了。你品，你细品!

D选项正确。

文章来源背景和来源：

The Data Is Failing Us

失效的数据

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-21/america-needs-real-time-data-to-get-through-coronavirus-crisis

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