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
ace buddies
adjacent dihedral angle
background monitoring station
belladonnas
bevel weld
Boston cream pies
bottom pump
Bradford, William
bump your gums
chromosome fragment
closed type formula
colaptes caper collariss
complete overhaul
critical pulse manifestation
current condition
dagger shore
damping current
delay recorder
dhying agent
diagonal cutting pliers
discriminatively
distortionless dialing
dividend payout ratio
double decompositionreaction
esophagocoloplasty
evening edition
everniastrum subplanum
fascial flap
fatty acyl desaturase
film grain noise
finicalnesses
fluctuation action
formetorex
fountainheads
frequency shifter
fresh-food
funal
gasoline sweetener
glycophosphomutase
grading principle
granule ripple
heredoinfection
Holmavatn
homomorphous nymph
inhibited mode
introns early
inversus
j (a) form
lady diana frances spencers
landing instruction
large-scale industry
LEAU
length bar
loss by burning
macroglomeruli
magnesium acetylsalicylate
mating spines
microcotyledons
MNAS
mock voile
multipurpose furniture
nailset
non-metallic gasket
oil drum stand
oil inflame
olefin copolymer
Osteroporosis
PC bus
pen pusher
pension-schemes
photodegradable
pinkest
Pithecellobium
platform ticket
push-pull output stage
put on a show
reserve for bad loan
ruthenium monoiodide
Santa Cruz do Sul
sawlog
scalped field
schooner rig
sequentialization of design
side-bets
single status
spatial estimator
species hybridization
stopperrod
streptococcus faecalis var. liquefaciens
swinbank
the rocky mountain
thorn letter
trichostachine
tropical monsoon
unknelled
unvain
vandenboschia clathratum shieh
white-ears
work system
x-ray beam
Yenidamlar
zone leveler