时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2006年


英语课

It is Labor 1 Day, of course, a time to salute 2 the American worker. But there is new information suggesting it's tougher than ever to be in the American workforce 3. A big new government report found that American paychecks are not keeping pace with inflation. So where are the good jobs? We asked ABC's Dan Harris to look for them.

At the top of the class, and by that we mean 'upper class', doctors, medical professionals ranging from surgeons to obstetricians, to orthodontists, make up ten of the top eleven highest-paid professions in the country. Chief executive officers come in at No. 10, earning an average of $142, 000 a year.

As for blue-collar workers, Forbes magazine reports that subway conductors and flight attendants make the most, on average more than $62, 000 a year.

According to new census 4 data, the gap between rich and poor Americans is now at an all-time high, with the top 1/5 of American households claiming more than half of all the nation's income. What's more, a new report released just this weekend, indicates about 30% of households have a net worth of less than $10, 000. The bottom line for Americans seeking to reach the same standard of living as their parents? Avoid the plastic and save wherever possible.

It's very difficult to save a life, but a few dollars and as that saving nest egg begins to build, you'll see it, you, er, you'll wanna contribute more.

Now, all of this is not to say that you have to become a CEO to live in comfort. Economists 5 note there is still room at the top for stargazers. It turns out astronomers 6 make big bucks 7 as some of the nation's highest-paid professionals.

From Good Morning America, Dan Harris, ABC news.
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obstetrician:a doctor whose job is to check the health of a woman who is pregnant and help with the birth of her child 产科医师
orthodontist:a dentist whose job is to make teeth straight 正牙医生
nest egg:an amount of money saved over a long period to use in the future 为养老,应变等用的储蓄
stargazer:someone who studies the stars 占星师



1 labor
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。
2 salute
vi.行礼,致意,问候,放礼炮;vt.向…致意,迎接,赞扬;n.招呼,敬礼,礼炮
  • Merchant ships salute each other by dipping the flag.商船互相点旗致敬。
  • The Japanese women salute the people with formal bows in welcome.这些日本妇女以正式的鞠躬向人们施礼以示欢迎。
3 workforce
n.劳动大军,劳动力
  • 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。
4 census
n.(官方的)人口调查,人口普查
  • A census of population is taken every ten years.人口普查每10年进行一次。
  • The census is taken one time every four years in our country.我国每四年一次人口普查。
5 economists
n.经济学家,经济专家( economist的名词复数 )
  • The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists. 股价的突然上涨使经济学家大惑不解。
  • Foreign bankers and economists cautiously welcomed the minister's initiative. 外国银行家和经济学家对部长的倡议反应谨慎。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 astronomers
n.天文学者,天文学家( astronomer的名词复数 )
  • Astronomers can accurately foretell the date,time,and length of future eclipses. 天文学家能精确地预告未来日食月食的日期、时刻和时长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Astronomers used to ask why only Saturn has rings. 天文学家们过去一直感到奇怪,为什么只有土星有光环。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 bucks
n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 );钱;(英国十九世纪初的)花花公子;(用于某些表达方式)责任v.(马等)猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 );抵制;猛然震荡;马等尥起后蹄跳跃
  • They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
  • They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
abyssal facies
acetabularia ryukyuensis
adiantum formosanum
air bricks
air metre
Airy method
all-night service store
amblopala avidiena y-fasciata
anastole
apathetic shock
Atranex
ballast displacement
beg one's pardon
breathy
bus connector
businesslikely
career coaching
Carolina allspice
Celone, Torrente
Civil Air Patrol
co-precipitations
copper bloom
dacrydium bidwillis
data gathering problem
data generating system
deleague
drive for
East Coast of South Africa
electron bombardment zone melting
emilia-romagnas
endless loop cassette tape
Fasintsara
file video
fleshy
floating-point shift
formal logical system
friedguts
fundible
gaisy chain
habitat ecology
heterocaryote(heterokaryote)
high-fitness
hold down
holubs
hooft
hurra
infinitum
interface language
koury
kyp-
lays hands on
lipothymia
Maslovka
mesendoderm
Metaxa
Mizonovo
motor with separate excitation
mucilago gummi arabici
Nessus' shirt
netstumbler
night gang
non-saponifying
odynometer
oil-contaminated
online writing center
parapenaeopsis venusta
prevenient
private-pay
protecting mask
quinley
ragouts
rail changer
sausage curl
second-ring groove
semisecret
shared hardware
six-percent
spectrum test
spigot and-faucet joint
spring butt rocking door
stadd
steel bar welding
subtemporal (bone)
symmetric laminate
tetradactylism
the usual
theoretical combustion temperature
three-notest
tile roofs
top plunger
total time on test
track road
trelstad
twin cable
ultraleftists
unpannelling
up level
voltage behind subtransient reactance of a synchronous generator
willson
wynn
xxiiiest
Y-system