热词手帐（No. 1462）
我们从英国《金融时报》近期热点报道中挑选值得记忆的高频单词和短语，配合释义与新闻原文例句，帮助你轻松掌握地道实用的英文表达，在不断积累中感受英语能力的进步与提高。
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ether
/ˈiːθə(r)/
n. 醚；乙醚；
苍穹；苍天；太空；
以太
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Grayscale earns a 2.5 per cent management fee on the 3mn of ether in the trust, equating to $209mn in the year to end September. DCG last sold shares in the Ethereum Trust in 2021, when the vehicle traded nearly at par with its net asset value, according to the filings provided by The Washington Service. Today the shares trade at half the value of the ethereum coin they represent.
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affiliation
/əˌfɪliˈeɪʃn/
n. （与政党、宗教等的）隶属关系；
隶属；从属
The two ETFs, whose tickers are a play on the names of US politicians on opposite sides of the political spectrum — congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, the former Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives, and Ted Cruz, the Republican senator — will also invest according to political affiliation.
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sequentially
/sɪˈkwenʃəli/
adv. 按次序的；顺序的；序列的
“The macro picture has definitely improved, with inflation easing sequentially,” said Kelly Burton, high yield portfolio manager at Barings. “The jobs data alone [suggests] we’re not heading to a deep recession in the near-term.”