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失业
Unemployment
Any degree of unemployment worries me.
任何程度的失业都让我担心。
Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
失业保险是吃白食者的带薪假期。
Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.
失业是至关重要的,特别是对失业者来说。
When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
当很多人找不到工作时,就会导致失业。
When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.
当大量的男性找不到工作时,就会导致失业。
There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
新闻编辑室里没有作家区。只有失业问题。
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
当我们失业时,我们被称为懒惰;当白人失业时,这就叫做萧条。
All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.
所有的失业补偿都应与职业培训要求挂钩。事实上,99周是副学士学位。
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
一个愿意工作而又找不到工作的人,也许是这个世界上命运的不平等所表现出来的最悲哀的景象。
There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
棚户区没有失业。每个人都工作。六分之一的人在那里。很快就会超过这个数字。
They keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job, because the job doesn't pay as much as the unemployment benefit does.
他们一直在延长失业救济,直到人们害怕出去找工作,因为这份工作的工资不像失业救济那么高。
Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.
失业会削弱人们的信心和可能性;而且,雇主往往不公平地将长期失业视为出了问题的信号。
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沿着这个主题,再读几句。
In addition to joblessness, of course, by the working of supply and demand, when you have a larger number of people unemployed, wages do not rise at the normal level, so that we had last year a drop in real wages.
当然,除了失业之外,由于工作的供求关系,当有更多的人失业时,工资不会在正常水平上上涨,所以我们去年的实际工资有所下降。