时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2012年(十一月)


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Unemployment Remains 1 Key Factor for US Voters



Jobless Americans are concerned about the high unemployment rate.


"If Mitt 2 Romney gets into office he is going to have to get these young black men and old black men jobs,” said Jeff Smith, who currently is unemployed 3.


Larry Guinn, a small business owner, said economic uncertainty 4 makes him reluctant to hire new workers.


“I just see more and more unemployment in the country, and that’s not good for America," said Guinn.


Some Ohio voters, including Catholic priest Joseph Rudjak, say jobs are available.


"I don’t see people here terribly disturbed by the unemployment rate. There are opportunities for simple jobs, low-paying jobs,” said Rudjak.


Ohio businessman Gus Hoyes said the job market is getting better, but he's not sure if President Barack Obama should get credit for the change.


“There is a positive upflow. Is that the result of what Obama has done over the past four years? For me that is hard to determine if that is something that has been caused by his leadership,” said Hoyes.


Voters will look more at the unemployment trend rather than at the exact level, says University of Mary Washington political scientist Chad Murphy.


“What’s important is the trend," he said. "Do you feel like things have gotten better for you?”


That’s why the president says the economy was losing hundreds of thousands of jobs a month when he took office, but now is gaining jobs. 


Rival Mitt Romney said the recovery is weak and blames Obama’s economic policies. 


Being jobless at a time of high unemployment makes people more likely to vote, said Princeton University's Matthew Incantalupo.


“Experiencing job loss, going through unemployment, is actually a mobilizing phenomenon. Individuals who experience unemployment when and where the unemployment rate is high, are more likely to vote than people who had not gone through job loss," he said.


High unemployment usually is a big problem for the incumbent 5, Incantalupo said, but that may be softened 6 in this case because the jobless are disproportionately young or members of minority groups, and they tend to be Obama supporters.


Recent data showing a slight drop in the jobless numbers brought allegations that government officials had manipulated the data to help Obama.


Tracking unemployment is an inexact science, said University of Michigan researcher Don Grimes.


“I don’t believe that there was any indication that these numbers, while unusual, were statistically 7 not valid," he said.


Grimes said news stories and politicians make too big a deal of slight changes in the unemployment numbers, which he said probably do not show much actual change in the economy. 




n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
n.棒球手套,拳击手套,无指手套;vt.铐住,握手
  • I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日,我送给他一只棒球手套。
  • Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。
adj.失业的,没有工作的;未动用的,闲置的
  • There are now over four million unemployed workers in this country.这个国家现有四百万失业人员。
  • The unemployed hunger for jobs.失业者渴望得到工作。
n.易变,靠不住,不确知,不确定的事物
  • Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
  • After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后,压力开始产生影响了。
adj.成为责任的,有义务的;现任的,在职的
  • He defeated the incumbent governor by a large plurality.他以压倒多数票击败了现任州长。
  • It is incumbent upon you to warn them.你有责任警告他们。
(使)变软( soften的过去式和过去分词 ); 缓解打击; 缓和; 安慰
  • His smile softened slightly. 他的微笑稍柔和了些。
  • The ice cream softened and began to melt. 冰淇淋开始变软并开始融化。
ad.根据统计数据来看,从统计学的观点来看
  • The sample of building permits is larger and therefore, statistically satisfying. 建筑许可数的样本比较大,所以统计数据更令人满意。
  • The results of each test would have to be statistically independent. 每次试验的结果在统计上必须是独立的。
学英语单词
AIEC
anokhin
assumed spheroid
auncel
aviation kerosine
bakshis
balanced systematic sampling
ballonnement
Baptiste
bat-horse
braneworld
by-gum
concretio
continuity principle
crenatula modiolaris
cryogenic meadow forest soil
daymares
decarburizing cycle
deroofing
dress case
electrical smoking
elsfords
Ethaperazin
Euschongastia lorius
fillet of sole
focal plane shutter
fuel core
glassified
hal-
hedge-berry
hunger strikes
hutz
ibuverine
institutional environment
intermediate resistance
intracellular iodophilia
jinkle
Lou Gehrig's disease
lute stern
main drain
marine fire-fighting system
mean aerodynamic center
merica
mesothermophilus
mixture chamber
mould cup
mountains perennially covered with snow
non-arrivals
non-ornamental
nonhumanoid
numerical instability
outriving
overflow ports
oxygen want
parallel study
personal operating space
photo-flash powder
photocapacitance
pitayine
polyoptimal
preaxial muscle
prince klemens wenzel nepomuk lothar von metterniches
pythium undulatum
ratchet tooth
re-authorization
rechanging
requisition of land
rerhia cotton
retrieval data
retzian- (la)
rho type doublet
Rhopaloblaste
rivet-hole
rose-colored pastor
sailor's champagne
sea hen
SGN
shake one's responsibility
shc
shumann
silver stars
sinapoyl
single-station analysis
source of voltage
spin reorientation
spun bonded fabric
stallages
stamey
Tegadifurum
tetartanopias
tip cleaner
tracks-to-tracks seek time
transadenylase
turgut
under glass
unreduced
v. coronaria ventriculi
vaporizing combustion chamber
witching hour, the
witness's oath
ylium ion