英语新闻听写 美联储第六次上调基准利率

（单词翻译）

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rate for the sixth time since late-2015.

周三，美联储上调基准利率，这是自2015年年底以来第六次上调。

The Fed has worked to normalize monetary¹ policy over the past two years.

过去两年来，美联储一直致力于货币政策的正常化。

It begun with its initial move off historically low, near-zero rates in December 2015.

2015年12月基准利率接近零这一历史低点，也就是从那时开始上调的。

Since that time, it has raised rates in incremental² 25-basis-point moves, and has begun to slowly wind down a balance sheet that exceeds four trillion dollars.

从那以后每次上调25基点，并且已经开始逐渐减少那超过4万亿美元的资产负债表。