经济学人双语精读｜美国房地产：迟来的风暴

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点击文章末端“ 阅读原文 ” 获取完整电子版 （ PDF + Word + MP3音频） 每天分享一篇经济学人双语精读 全文翻译+全文注释+长难句分析 背景知识+写作技巧+短语+段落大意+词汇精析 本期同步音频 01 经济学人原文 property  in America ： Long time coming Office delinquencies are shooting up 【 1 】 American offices often break records. Tech firms mark their progress with ever more  outlandish  designs. Manhattan blocks vie to be the  tallest . This year, though, a worse kind of record has been broken. Offices have hit a  20 . 1 %  vacancy  rate, according to Moody’s, which is the highest since  1979 , when the rating agency began to keep track. 【 2 】 Problems are now starting to spread. In July lending worth  8 % of the value of  mortgage securities backed  by offices were  delinquent , the highest since  2013  and  exceeding  those on even long-troubled  retail - property securities  (see chart). ………………………………