时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2009年(一月)


英语课
As had been feared, the U.S. economy lost more than one half million jobs in December, capping the worst year for job losses since World War II.
 






People wait to talk with potential employers during job fair at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 1, 07 Jan 2009



Labor 2 Department figures show 524,000 people lost their jobs in December. This follows 584,000 job losses in November. The Labor Department report reveals an economy in free fall with the unemployment rate up nearly one-half percent to 7.2 percent and rising. The unemployment rate is at a 16-year high.

"In the third quarter [of the year] we lost 600,000 jobs, in round numbers," said Stuart Hoffman, chief economist 3 at PNC Bank in Pittsburgh, speaking on Bloomberg Television. "In the fourth quarter we lost 1.6 million jobs, and a near record job decline for the year. And unfortunately the rate of job decline really just accelerated dramatically in the last three months."

President-elect Obama said the job loss figures show that America is facing a devastating 4 economic crisis. He repeated his appeal for early congressional action to approve a multi-hundred billion dollar government program to stimulate 5 the economy.

For all of 2008 the U.S. economy lost 2.8 million jobs, this in an economy that had created millions of new jobs earlier in the decade. The U.S. economy has been in recession for over one year and the downturn is accelerating amid projections 6 that economic output is currently declining at a more than four percent annual rate.

Financial markets were not greatly impacted by the employment report where bad news had been anticipated. Oil prices were steady at around $40 per as the slowing world economy has brought prices down over 70 percent from their peak back in July. Most stock markets lost ground in Friday trading.



n.运动衫
  • He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
  • They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致,都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
n.经济学家,经济专家,节俭的人
  • He cast a professional economist's eyes on the problem.他以经济学行家的眼光审视这个问题。
  • He's an economist who thinks he knows all the answers.他是个经济学家,自以为什么都懂。
adj.毁灭性的,令人震惊的,强有力的
  • It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
  • Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。
vt.刺激,使兴奋;激励,使…振奋
  • Your encouragement will stimulate me to further efforts.你的鼓励会激发我进一步努力。
  • Success will stimulate the people for fresh efforts.成功能鼓舞人们去作新的努力。
预测( projection的名词复数 ); 投影; 投掷; 突起物
  • Their sales projections are a total thumbsuck. 他们的销售量预测纯属估计。
  • The council has revised its projections of funding requirements upwards. 地方议会调高了对资金需求的预测。
学英语单词
aluminium plate evaporator
amyotonias
application network
balbo
bronner's acid
building complex
Burmesia
by-spine
capital construction project audit
Chase Manhattan Asia Limited
cloth merchant
combined fuel economy
compensating of load
Congo coffee
contest competition
crank bearing metal
crowed
crushing strength under high temperature
crystal enamel
destabilisers
dihydrostreptose
domestic garden
drilling data base
duty call
dynamic alteration
Euterpe oleracea
exchange broker
F-ERG
fishing-tube
forwell
genus Bougainvillaea
going-to
grey heron
heat sinking capability
hemi-tetragonal trisoctahedron
house air bill
hum-um
hypertrophic osteoarthropathy
initial credit balance
intermittent cramps
Ismailovo
kecklings
Kras(Karst)
letter of countermart
low dimension
Maboulou
main power source
mantle cone
masking-out
Mason County
matrix notation
mechanical metamorphism
microfilmed
misevaluated
motor guarantee fund
naked debenture
name length
Nemastomataceae
nidhug
nitrocellulose method
non agricultural
non-incorporated
nonprestressed reinforcement
nonvampires
outgoing calls barred
path length
peoplers
positive hypergeometric distribution
pure literal rule
radiolocations
Ravennese
red-legged partridges
reference critical stress intensity factor
required number
rowlock bolster
rules on air warfare
rusty gold
Saddell Castle
seamewes
Seapatrick
Solberga
southeasts
sparnacian subage
squelched
supply - side economics
swizzling
tantalian cassiterite
tax agent
thorington
toastie
transitory bud
transmissibillity coefficient of aquifer
transparency dye
transport symbol
traumatic sinuses
trial and error theory
tubero-hypophyseal
unbiased estimate of population variance
unlabelled compound
water birches
Well-diversified portfolio