VOA标准英语2012--Pakistan's Textile Industry Faces Challenges
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(十月)
Pakistan's Textile Industry Faces Challenges
At the M.K. Sons factory in Faisalabad, which produces colorful printed fabrics 1 for sale by U.S. retail 2 giants like Walmart and Target, chief executive Rana Javed Akhtar insists that unlike the Karachi factory that burned down, his business is in line with international regulations.
"We have been audited 3 by Walmart, Target," said Akhtar. "They come for social compliance 4 as well as the safety, and for that we also have to be complianced. All fire exits, fire extinguishers are in compliance with international standards."
Textile exports are a major foreign exchange earner for Pakistan. The industry employs almost 40 percent of the country's workforce 5. That's significant in a country whose economy is shaky.
Union leader Zahoor Awan says the need for employment and corruption 6 means many factory owners get away with providing illegal wages and substandard working conditions.
"This compliance system has a lot of questions on their credibility, this is now being asked and that is correct," said Awan.
But industry leaders in Pakistan say they have no problem abiding 7 by workplace regulations.
Ali Raza Kari, of Faisalabad's BeBeJan company, says acute electricity shortages and customers' fear of terrorism will have a longer term impact on the industry and its workers.
"The point is that economic development and the corresponding prosperity are intertwined with political instability," Kari noted 8.
Kari says it will be up to the business community here to work with the government to solve the industry's considerable challenges.
- cotton fabrics and synthetics 棉织物与合成织物
- The fabrics are merchandised through a network of dealers. 通过经销网点销售纺织品。
- In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
- These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。
- The accounts have to be audited by a firm of external auditors. 这些账目必须由一家外聘审计员的公司来稽查。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- E. g. few if any charities collection publishes audited accounts. 例如很少义款收集有公布经过查核的帐目。 来自互联网
- I was surprised by his compliance with these terms.我对他竟然依从了这些条件而感到吃惊。
- She gave up the idea in compliance with his desire.她顺从他的愿望而放弃自己的主意。
- A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture.劳动人口中一大部分受雇于农业。
- A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。
- The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
- The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
- He had an abiding love of the English countryside.他永远热爱英国的乡村。
- He has a genuine and abiding love of the craft.他对这门手艺有着真挚持久的热爱。