VOA标准英语2012--US Adds 171K Jobs; Unemployment Rate Rises to 7.9%
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(十一月)
US Adds 171K Jobs; Unemployment Rate Rises to 7.9%
The last major economic report before Americans head to the polls shows hiring accelerated in October. That's welcome news for more than 12 million unemployed 1 Americans, and for a president fighting to keep his job. President Barack Obama told supporters in Ohio that since July the private sector 2 has added more than 170,000 jobs each month.
"And today our businesses have created nearly 5 1/2 million new jobs. And this morning we learned that companies hired more workers in October than at any time in the last eight months," said Obama.
But the improving outlook is just one aspect of the government report. Despite upward revisions to job numbers in August and September, the nation's unemployment rate inched higher to 7.9 percent as more people started looking for work.
Republican challenger Mitt 3 Romney said the report was further proof of an economy at a virtual standstill. He accused the president of falling short on his promises.
"He said he was going to lower the unemployment rate, down to 5.2 percent right now. Today we learned that it's actually 7.9 percent. And that's 9 million jobs short of what he promised," said Romney.
Since World War II, no U.S. president has ever won re-election with unemployment above 7.4 percent. The White House says the new report, though, is further evidence that the economy is healing from the worst downturn in decades. Still, the latest job numbers are unlikely to sway voters.
ABC News political analyst 4 Matthew Dowd said most Americans already have made up their minds.
"The perceptions of the economy are already baked in [already set]. At this point in the game, the last six months of what's happened - in the last six months in the economy - are baked into perceptions," said Dowd.
Despite the better-than-expected job numbers, lingering signs of economic weakness remain. Average hourly pay declined in October, and paychecks have not kept pace with inflation.
After an initial bounce on Wall Street, stock futures 5 fell more than one percent, as investors 6 worried about a deepening recession in Europe and a looming 7 budget crisis in the U.S.
- 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。
- The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
- The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。
- 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。
- What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务？
- The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。
- He continued his operations in cotton futures.他继续进行棉花期货交易。
- Cotton futures are selling at high prices.棉花期货交易的卖价是很高的。
- a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
- a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会