16. It was our worst year in float cost since 1984, and a result that to a significant degree, as I will explain in the next section, we brought upon ourselves.
去年我曾告诉各位，除非发生什么重大的灾难，否则我们浮存金的成本将可由 2000 年 6%的高档往下降，当时我心里想到的是自然天灾之类的意外，但任谁也想不到发生的竟是 911 恐怖份子攻击事件这样的人祸，它造成保险业有史以来最重大的损失，也让我们的浮存金成本大举飙高到 12.8%，这是自 1984 年以来最惨的记录，而且大部分的责任，在后段我还会再详加解释，要归咎于我们自己。
float
17. In 2000, however, we had an underwriting loss of $1.6 billion, which gave us a float cost of 6%. Absent a mega-catastrophe, we expect our float cost to fall in 2001 - perhaps substantially - in large part because of corrections in pricing at General Re that should increasingly be felt as the year progresses. On a smaller scale, GEICO may experience the same improving trend.
可观的承保利益，来弥补像1984年那样糟糕的年度，当年的资金成本高达19%，不过2000年我们的承保损失却高达16亿美金，这使得我们的浮存金成本飙高至6%，除非再发生什?重大的灾难，否则我们预期2001年的浮存金成本将会大幅下降，主要的原因是General RE已经逐渐开始反映调整价格，至於GEICO虽然规模较小，但也应该会有同样的情形。
18. I had in mind natural catastrophes when I said that, but instead we were hit by a man-made catastrophe on September 11th - an event that delivered the insurance industry its largest loss in history. Our float cost therefore came in at a staggering 12.8%. It was our worst year in float cost since 1984, and a result that to a significant degree, as I will explain in the next section, we brought upon ourselves. If no mega-catastrophe occurs, I - once again expect the cost of our float to be low in the coming year. We will indeed need a low cost, as will all insurers.
去年我曾告诉各位，除非发生什么重大的灾难，否则我们浮存金的成本将可由 2000 年 6%的高档往下降，当时我心里想到的是自然天灾之类的意外，但任谁也想不到发生的竟是 911 恐怖份子攻击事件这样的人祸，它造成保险业有史以来最重大的损失，也让我们的浮存金成本大举飙高到 12.8%，这是自 1984 年以来最惨的记录，而且大部分的责任，在后段我还会再详加解释，要归咎于我们自己。
19. Yearend Float (in $ millions) Year GEICO General Re Other Reinsurance Other Primary Total 1967202019774013117119877018071, 50819972, 9174, 0144557, 38619983, 12514, 9094, 30541522, 75419993, 44415, 1666, 28540325, 29820003, 94315, 5257, 80559827, 87120014, 25119, 31011, 26268535, 508 Last year I told you that, barring a mega-catastrophe, our cost of float would probably drop from its 2000 level of 6%. I had in mind natural catastrophes when I said that, but instead we were hit by a man-made catastrophe on September 11th - an event that delivered the insurance industry its largest loss in history. Our float cost therefore came in at a staggering 12.8%. It was our worst year in float cost since 1984, and a result that to a significant degree, as I will explain in the next section, we brought upon ourselves.
去年我曾告诉各位，除非发生什么重大的灾难，否则我们浮存金的成本将可由 2000 年 6%的高档往下降，当时我心里想到的是自然天灾之类的意外，但任谁也想不到发生的竟是 911 恐怖份子攻击事件这样的人祸，它造成保险业有史以来最重大的损失，也让我们的浮存金成本大举飙高到 12.8%，这是自 1984 年以来最惨的记录，而且大部分的责任，在后段我还会再详加解释，要归咎于我们自己。
20. Yearend Float (in $ millions) Year GEICO General Re Other Reinsurance Other Primary Total 1967202019774013117119877018071, 50819972, 9174, 0144557, 38619983, 12514, 9094, 30541522, 75419993, 44415, 1666, 28540325, 29820003, 94315, 5257, 80559827, 871 We`re pleased by the growth in our float during 2000 but not happy with its cost. Over the years, our cost of float has been very close to zero, with the underwriting profits realized in most years offsetting the occasional terrible year such as 1984, when our cost was a staggering 19%. In 2000, however, we had an underwriting loss of $1.6 billion, which gave us a float cost of 6%. Absent a mega-catastrophe, we expect our float cost to fall in 2001 - perhaps substantially - in large part because of corrections in pricing at General Re that should increasingly be felt as the year progresses. On a smaller scale, GEICO may experience the same improving trend.
对於2000年的浮存金成长我们感到相当欣慰，但却对其成本不甚满意，一直以来，我们浮存金成本通常都维持在接近於零的低水准，有时好的时候，还能享有可观的承保利益，来弥补像1984年那样糟糕的年度，当年的资金成本高达 19%，不过2000年我们的承保损失却高达16亿美金，这使得我们的浮存金成本飙高至6%，除非再发生什?重大的灾难，否则我们预期2001年的浮存金成本将会大幅下降，主要的原因是General RE已经逐渐开始反映调整价格，至於 GEICO虽然规模较小，但也应该会有同样的情形。
float 词典解释
1.
1. (使)漂浮;(使)浮动
If something or someone is floating in a liquid, they are in the liquid, on or just below the surface, and are being supported by it. You can also float something on a liquid.
e.g. They noticed fifty and twenty dollar bills floating in the water.
他们发现水中漂浮着50和20美元的纸币。
e.g. ...barges floating quietly by the grassy river banks...
青草萋萋的河岸边静静漂浮着的驳船
2. 漂;浮
Something that floats lies on or just below the surface of a liquid when it is put in it and does not sink.
e.g. Empty things float.
空的物体会在水中浮起。
3.
3. 浮体;浮板;救生圈
A float is a light object that is used to help someone or something float.
4. (钓鱼用的)鱼漂浮子
A float is a small object attached to a fishing line which floats on the water and moves when a fish has been caught.
5.
5. (在空中)飘荡，飘浮
Something that floats in or through the air hangs in it or moves slowly and gently through it.
e.g. The white cloud of smoke floated away.
白色的烟雾飘远了。
e.g. ...the sun's rays lighting up the dust floating in the air.
阳光照亮了空气中浮动的灰尘
6. float在线翻译
6. (声音或气味)飘到，传到
If a sound or smell floats to a place quite far away, it can be heard or smelled there.
e.g. Sublime music floats on a scented summer breeze to the spot where you lie on the lush grass...
你躺在绿草如茵的草地上，涤荡心灵的乐声随着清香的夏日微风飘到你的身边。
e.g. The smells of delicious foods floated all around him.
美食的香味弥漫在他的四周。
7. float
7. 优雅地走动;轻盈地走动
If you float somewhere, you walk there very lightly and gracefully.
e.g. Caroline floated up the aisle on her father's arm.
卡罗琳挽着父亲的手臂从过道上优雅地走过。
8. 提出(计划、方案或想法)
If you float a project, plan, or idea, you suggest it for others to think about.
e.g. The French had floated the idea of placing the diplomatic work in the hands of the UN.
法国提出将外交工作交由联合国处理的想法。
9. 使(公司)发行股票;使上市
If a company director floats their company, they start to sell shares in it to the public.
e.g. He floated his firm on the stock market...
他让自己的公司上市了。
e.g. The advisers are delaying the key decision on whether to float 60 per cent or 100 per cent of the shares.
顾问们对于发行60%还是100%股份的关键问题迟迟未作决定。
10. (使)(货币)自由浮动
If a government floats its country's currency or allows it to float, it allows the currency's value to change freely in relation to other currencies.
e.g. A decision by the Finns to float their currency sent a shudder through the foreign exchanges...
芬兰允许其货币自由浮动的决定在外汇市场上引起了震动。
e.g. 59 per cent of people believed the pound should be allowed to float freely.
59%的人认为应该允许英镑自由浮动。
11. (节日游行时的)彩车，花车
A float is a truck on which displays and people in special costumes are carried in a festival procession.
12. float的近义词
12. (商店的)备用零钱
A float is a small amount of coins and notes of low value that someone has before they start selling things so that they are able to give customers change if necessary.
13. float
13. 传开;流传
A rumour or idea that is floating around is often heard or talked about.
e.g. There are still some unfounded fears floating around out there about cancer being contagious.
社会上还是有一些毫无根据的关于癌症会传染的恐惧。
相关词组：float around
float 单语例句
1. Punters can perch on a raised platform that runs along its periphery to gaze at the bustling bridge and watch boats float below.
2. China started its managed float exchange rate regime aimed at a basket of currencies in 1994.
3. By the time Carnival celebrations wrap up March 8, about 100 parades will have rolled through area streets or float down waterways.
4. " The actual price band of the issue will be fixed two weeks before the float, " the source said.
5. Americans believe that if China were to float its currency on the free market, somehow magically the outflow of US jobs would cease.
6. The yuan appreciated 21 percent in the three years after a managed float against a basket of currencies was introduced in 2005.
7. He stayed close to shore clinging to a float, about chest deep in the water.
8.
8. The float parade will tour around the city and a competition will be held with prizes for the top float.
9. float
9. China Construction won initial approval to float its shares last June but the plan was derailed by the slumping market conditions then.
10. It allowed the contract price of major thermal coal to float by no more than 5 percent this year from last year.
float 英英释义
float
noun
1. float什么意思
1. an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy
Synonym: air bladder swim bladder
2. something that floats on the surface of water
3. a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco
Synonym: plasterer's float
4. an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade
5. a drink with ice cream floating in it
Synonym: ice-cream soda ice-cream float
6. float的反义词
6. the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public
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7. the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment
verb
1. convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation
e.g. float data
2. float是什么意思
2. allow (currencies) to fluctuate
e.g. The government floated the ruble for a few months
3. make the surface of level or smooth
e.g. float the plaster
4. put into the water
e.g. float a ship
5. move lightly, as if suspended
e.g. The dancer floated across the stage
6. float的近义词
6. set afloat
e.g. He floated the logs down the river
The boy floated his toy boat on the pond
7. be in motion due to some air or water current
e.g. The leaves were blowing in the wind
the boat drifted on the lake
The sailboat was adrift on the open sea
the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore
Synonym: drift be adrift blow
8. be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
Synonym: swim
9. circulate or discuss tentatively
test the waters with
e.g. The Republicans are floating the idea of a tax reform
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