1. Indeed homelessness has reached such proportions that local government can't possibly cope. 【分析】复合句。句子主干为 homelessness has reached such proportions。Indeed 表示强调;that 引导结果状语从句。 【译文】实际

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 考研英语长难句讲解

currently adv.当前,目前 My dad is currently working as a college professor. 我父亲目前在大学担任教授。 tricky a.狡猾的;微妙的,难以处理的 No one likes to deal with a tricky person. 谁都不喜欢与狡猾的人打交道。

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We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many months of struggle and suffering. 我们所面临的将是一场极其严酷的考验,将是旷日持久的斗争和苦难。 You ask, what is our policy? I say it

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Chapter 1Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where

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AS IT IS 2016-04-05 New Study Shows Best, Worst Pay for Women 男女工资差异最大的工种 American women who work as computer programmers, chefs and dentists earn 28 percent less than men doing the same jobs. Those are the jobs with the biggest

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ECONOMICS REPORT - On the Job, at Minimum WageBy Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, January 13, 2006 I'm Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Minimum wage is the lowest hourly pay

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The living wage 最低生活工资 Wage flaws 工资缺陷 Sense and nonsense about minimum wages 最低工资的意义何在 What unites Ed Miliband, the Labour leader; Boris Johnson, Londons Tory mayor; and Barclays Bank? All are keen on the living

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人财经系列

JUDY WOODRUFF: The latest government jobs report shows the American labor market moving into its strongest hiring pace in years. Employers added 217,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate remained at 6.3 percent, its lowest level since Septem

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GWEN IFILL: The battle over the minimum wage heated up across the country today, as fast-food workers in several cities launched a one-day strike. Outside Chicago, near the corporate home of McDonald's, workers protested as the company held its annua

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Statistics indicate China's yearly minimum wage increase appears to be slowing, and the increases are unevenly distributed across the country, the China Economic Weekly reports. 《中国经济周刊》近日报道,数据显示,我国年度最低工

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The country has the most generous national minimum wage in the developed world, according to a report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. 经济合作发展组织的一份报告显示,澳大利亚在发达国家中享有最

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From charging slaughterhouse workers for their knives to compensating staff with tanning salon vouchers, German employers are coming up with creative ways to avoid paying a new minimum wage, angering unions. 从对屠宰场的屠夫收取刀子使用费

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Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos says his country faces an uncontrolled default unless worker unions and employers can agree on wage cuts to boost Greece's economic competitiveness. The interim Greek leader met with labor leaders and business rep

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Beijing's traffic may now be the worst in the world, but natives have long known the capital's streets aren't as hard to navigate as its housing. 北京的交通可能是世界上最糟糕的,但北京人长期以来就知道,北京的街道还不像

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You probably don't know me, but I am one of those .01 percenters that you hear about and read about, and I am by any reasonable definition a plutocrat. And tonight, what I would like to do is speak directly to other plutocrats, to my people, because

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Henry Ford Although Henry Ford's name is closely associated with the concept of mass production, he should receive equal credit for introducing labor practices as early as 1913 that would be considered advanced even by today's standards. Safety measu

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Thousands of protesters marched through the Indonesian capital Tuesday demanding better working conditions to mark international Labor Day. While increasingly frequent strikes have revealed discontent within the labor force, analysts say Indonesia is

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Most men and women feel that a dinner bill should be split down the middle, but with women only making 79 cents for every dollar a man earns, how fair is this it really? 对于晚餐之后的买单问题,绝大多数人都认为应该平摊。但如果

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Leaders 社论 Minimum wages 最低工资标准 The logical floor 多少才合理 Moderate minimum wages do more good than harm. They should be set by technocrats not politicians 实施适度的最低工资标准利大于弊,但是它们应该由技术

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Listen to February 18th 2011 to hear the background to this. In February this year, workers who care for intellectually disabled people, won their case for better night pay. The court said that they should be paid the minimum wage for sleeping at nig

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