【例文・単語帳】21-01-15_What is the economic cost of covid-19?

英語

01-15に読んで、聞いて、シャドーイングした記事

記事の内容:

世界中で、コロナの影響で10兆ドル分のGDPが減ってしまった。(概算)

所感:

GDPがあまり減っていない国もある。

回復は連動するなら、GDPが比較的に減少していない国に投資するのがいいかもしれない。

中国。

知らない単語があった文(Google dictionary)

One simple baseline is the World Bank’s projection released this time last year, when it was still blissfully unaware of the lurking viral threat.

In a manner characterized by extreme happiness or joy.

Remaining hidden so as to wait in ambush.

That is equivalent to about $5.6trn (at the market exchange rates and prices prevailing in 2010, which the bank uses for analytical convenience).

Equal in value, amount, function, meaning, etc.

Existing at a particular time; current.

goods and services the world could have produced had it remained unafflicted.

VERB FORMAL If you are afflicted by pain, illness, or disaster, it affects you badly and makes you suffer. (=affect)

Even these colossal numbers understate the cost, however. The economic damage, after all, will not be confined to this year and last.

Extremely large.

(of a space) restricted in area or volume; cramped.

Because the pandemic is so damaging to health and society, it is worth diverting vast resources to fight it—these efforts are of enormous economic value.

Of very great extent or quantity; immense.

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